Caroline Mair
Evidence Obtained by Hacking or Torture – Michael Drury, Caroline Mair and Andrew Watson write for Lawyer Monthly
Do two wrongs ever make a right when it comes to evidence obtained by hacking or even torture?
Six months on: the UK’s policing and law enforcement capabilities in Europe after Brexit
‘All mouth and no trousers’? The new focus on the fight against economic crime, illicit finance and serious and organised crime in the Integrated Review
- In its first review of the UK’s security capabilities both at home and abroad since 2015, the Government in its ‘Integrated Review’ (IR) sets out its policy agenda in respect of security, defence and foreign policy for the next four years to 2025. Significantly, we see for the first time in such a review, that the fight against “economic crime” (as well as the inextricably linked issues of “illicit finance” and “serious and organised crime”) is identified as one of the government’s top “priority actions”, recognising that such issues pose a real national security threat to the UK, given the fact they are not confined to the UK’s borders but can arise from any bad actor worldwide and particularly so given the continued rise of cybercrime.