City split on ‘woeful’ white-collar crime law

The Law Gazette ecovery of criminal assets is poor and will remain so unless government adopts radical recomendations from an influential committee of MPs,  a leading international law firm has said. However, Pinsent Masons’ stance places the firm at odds with respected defence lawyers at City practices. Pinsents, whose specialist fraud team provided evidence cited…

Criminal justice ‘institutionally racist’, solicitors allege

The Law Gazette The criminal justice system is replete with examples of ‘everyday’  institutional racism, a practitioners’ group has claimed in a hard-hitting response to a government-sponsored review of possible racial bias. Labour MP and barrister David Lammy (pictured) is currently investigating evidence of possible discrimination against black defendants and other ethnic minorities in the…

Police station reps banned over convictions

The Law Gazette Two non-solicitor police station representatives authorised by the Legal Aid Agency have been banned from working in the legal profession after being convicted of criminal offences. The Solicitors Regulation Authority said it would be undesirable for Derek Martin Parker and John Bull to be involved in a legal practice without seeking permission…