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• Online Safety Bill to include Law Commission recommendation targeting the encouragement of serious self-harm

  29th November 2022

  

  Last week the Government announced that it will update the Online Safety Bill to include the Law Commission’s recommendation to make encouraging or assisting serious self-harm an offence. The recommendation was made in July 2021 as part of the Law Commission’s Modernising Communications Offences report. The project was funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, … Read more >

• Law Commission recommendations to protect victims of intimate image abuse to be implemented

  25th November 2022

  

  The Government has today announced that it will implement Law Commission recommendations to strengthen the law to protect victims of intimate image abuse. The Law Commission was asked by the Ministry of Justice to undertake a review of the laws around intimate image abuse in 2019, following calls to make it easier to prosecute those … Read more >

• Law Commission seeks views on decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs)

  16th November 2022

  

  The Law Commission has launched a call for evidence asking users and other experts for information about how decentralised autonomous organisations – DAOs – can be characterised, and how the law of England and Wales might accommodate them now and in the future. What is a DAO? A DAO is a new type of organisational … Read more >

• New reforms to recover millions more from the proceeds of crime

  9th November 2022

  

  The Law Commission has published new reforms to overhaul the system for recovering the proceeds of criminal activities. The reforms, which are the culmination of a Home Office-commissioned review, would enhance enforcement powers and could lead to the recovery of millions of pounds of additional funds from offenders each year. A “confiscation order” is a … Read more >

• Comisiwn y Gyfraith yn cyflwyno ei flaenoriaethau ar gyfer 2022-23

  24th October 2022

  Mae’r stori hon ar gael yn Saesneg hefyd (This story is also available in English). Heddiw, fe wnaeth Comisiwn yn Gyfraith gosod allan ei gynllun am y flwyddyn ariannol presennol mewn cynllun busnes newydd. Mae’r ddogfen yn nodi targedau mesuradwy i’r sefydliad a fydd yn ei helpu i gyflawni ei nod o ddiwygio’r gyfraith. Mae’n cyflwyno … Read more >