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Criminal Litigation
In a previous article published on this website entitled ‘Careless or Inconsiderate Driving’, we outlined how a gap in the law had been closed with the introduction of the new offence of ‘Causing serious injury by careless, or inconsiderate, driving’ (‘the Offence’). On the 1 July 2023 the Sentencing Council published new Guidelines (‘the New Guidelines’) for […]
04/10/23
Regulatory
The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (‘the Act’), which comes into effect on 29 April 2024, requires manufacturers, importers and distributors of UK consumer connectable products to comply with minimum security requirements based on the UK’s Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security. The Act affects numerous items which are connected to the internet […]
02/10/23
Criminal Litigation
The Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Act 2022 (‘the Act’) creates the offence of ‘Breast Feeding Voyeurism’ which, inter alia, targets voyeurs who record images of breastfeeding women without permission. The offence has been passed as the result of a campaign led by Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, who was photographed while feeding her […]
29/09/23
Serious & General Crime
The Home Office has published its intention to categorise Nitrous Oxide as a Class C substance under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, by the end of 2023. Helen Holder of KANGS comments upon this proposal. KANGS has been defending clients charged with all manner of criminal conduct for well over twenty years and is rated as […]
27/09/23
Regulatory
Kangs Solicitors has recently successfully assisted a client avoid inclusion on the Children’s and Adults Barred list. Helen Holder of Kangs Solicitors reports on this highly satisfactory result. Kangs Solicitors offers considerable experience gained from advising and representing clients who have challenged proposals for their inclusion on a Barred List and relevancy or accuracy of the content […]
22/09/23
Criminal Litigation
‘Ellie’s Law’ arises from events following the sad death of seventeen years old Wiltshire teenager, Ellie Gould, who was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend Thomas Griffiths in May 2019. As he was only seventeen at the time of the murder, he received a far more lenient sentence than an adult would have received. However, […]
20/09/23
