Information Technology Offence in UK Law

  • Fraud after Roskill: a view from the Serious Fraud Office
    • No. 11-1, January 2004
    • Journal of Financial Crime
    • 10-16
    Describes the 1985 Roskill Committee Report on Fraud Trials as a success: of its 112 recommendations only two were not implemented. Explains why Roskill is nevertheless often criticised: there is a...
    ... ... , will seize the opportunitiesimproved technology provides. It is essential, ifhigh-tech fraud is ... ...
  • Criminalising privacy in the digital age: The reasonable expectation of not being digitally monitored
    • No. 86-3, June 2022
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    • 0000
    In this essay, we try to present a case for having a general privacy offence. Privacy is about much more than voyeurism involving sexual exploitation. The recent offence of upskirting is too narrow...
    ... ... a case for having a general privacy offence. Privacy is about muchmore than voyeurism ... to demonstrate that private acts and information that are revealed in an ephemeral sense ina ... Reverse image search technology already allowspeople to search people from ... ...
  • Explaining prosecution outcomes for cryptocurrency-based financial crimes
    • No. 26-1, January 2023
    • Journal of Money Laundering Control
    • 0000
    Purpose: Cryptocurrencies have been used to commit various offences, but enforcement efforts remain underdeveloped relative to the value of these crimes. This paper aims to examine factors associat...
    ... ... the USA to date, exploringthe impact of offence, defendant and evidence characteristics on ... offence encompassing fraudinvolving information and communication technology-based transmissions ... ...
  • Notice Board
    • No. 18-4, October 2014
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The
    • 0000
    ... ... trials on questions of fact where the offence is punishable by prisonfor 15 years or more; and ... jury directions, educational information forjurors, an amended juror oath, making it ... matters, and better information technology in court); a statutoryoffence for such research; ... ...
  • Bullying prevention and intervention strategies under UAE law
    • No. 31-5, October - March - August - September - November - December - February 2024
    • Journal of Financial Crime
    • 1237-1251
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of cyberbullying and corresponding strategies being used under the New United Arab Emirates (UAE) Cybercrimes Law. Design/methodology/ap...
    ... ... and adverse effects.Background information about the nature of cyberbullying will then lay ... information and communication technology with the intention of harming others (Leeet al., ... orinformation technology is a criminal offence under Article 44 if the intention of ... ...
  • Regulating police use of facial recognition technology in the Netherlands: The complex interplay between criminal procedural law and data protection law
    • No. 14-4, December 2023
    • New Journal of European Criminal Law
    • 0000
    In this contribution, we provide insight into the complex interplay between criminal procedure law and data protection law when it comes to regulating police use of facial recognition technology. B...
    ... ... remotely (sometimes in real-time) and linkthem to other information gathered by the police.2At the same time, facial recognition ... With regard to Question 2 (‘Has a criminal offence already been com-mitted?’), this example is classified as orange.21With ... ...
  • Sim Peter Baehr Lecture: Ensuring human rights for all in the digital age
    • No. 38-4, December 2020
    • Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
    • 0000
    ... ... of them that are truly free from technology.Three years ago, I wrote that, in many ways, we ... platforms have been shown to have on information ecosystem and elec-tions, and we see a clear line ... Section 66A of this law, it was acriminal offence to send ‘annoying’ messages to another ... ...
  • Section 47 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013: A Flawed Reform of the UK Cartel Offence
    • No. 78-3, May 2015
    • The Modern Law Review
    On 1 April 2014, section 47 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (ERRA) entered into force, ensuring significant changes to the UK cartel offence. The criminal offence, contained in sec...
    ... ... for Cartel Behaviour’ (2008) 8 Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal 364, 377. 53 See eg, M. Pickford, ‘The ... to do so, cartel arrangements are unlawful and therefore ‘information as to their existence is not legitimately susceptible to protection on the ... ...
  • Offences Involving Data Protection
    • Contents
    • Cyber Crime: Law and Practice - 2nd Edition
    • Matthew Richardson
    • 53-70
    ... ... DPA 2018 may only be brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Section 196 of the ... Section 170 of the DPA 2018 makes it an offence to knowingly or recklessly obtain, disclose or ... , has increased, and with modern technology continuing increase is virtually inevitable ... ...
  • Offences Involving Misuse of Computers
    • Contents
    • Cyber Crime: Law and Practice - 2nd Edition
    • Matthew Richardson
    • 1-52
    ... ... the mischief of misuse of computer technology that was not adequately covered by pre-existing ... and Counterfeiting Act 1981 – the offence of ‘making a false instrument with the ... to the computers or amending the information held in them for what may be a wide range of ... ...
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