Information Technology Offence in UK Law
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Fraud after Roskill: a view from the Serious Fraud Office
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 ... ...
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Criminalising privacy in the digital age: The reasonable expectation of not being digitally monitored
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 ... ...
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Notice Board
... ... trials on questions of fact where the offence is punishable by prison for 15 years or more; and ... jury directions, educational information for jurors, an amended juror oath, making it ... matters, and better information technology in court); a statutory offence for such research; ... ...
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Explaining prosecution outcomes for cryptocurrency-based financial crimes
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 ... ...
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Sim Peter Baehr Lecture: Ensuring human rights for all in the digital age
... ... 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 ... 66A of this law, it was a criminal offence to send ‘annoying’ messages to another ... ...
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Should the Law of Theft Extend to Information?
This article discusses whether the criminal offence of theft should extend to include information or should remain limited to corporeal property. It considers the inherent problems in satisfying th...... ... Christie*Abstract This article discusses whether the criminal offence of theftshould extend to include information or should remain limited to ... anomaly isexacerbated by the rapid proliferation of information technology insociety, which has the paradoxical effect of making information ... ...
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Drug Use, Intoxication and Offence Type in Two Groups of Alleged Offenders in Perth: A Pilot Study
The study consisted of two cross-sectional surveys, conducted with a) community based juveniles and adults under suspicion of having committed an offence (n = 90) and b) adults remanded in custody ...... ... in Perth: A Pilot Study Wendy Loxley Curtin University of Technology, Perth T he study consisted of two cross-sectional surveys, conducted ... apprehended offenders as an uneven distribution of information and low and skewed response rates were anticipated. The study consisted ... ...
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Section 47 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013: A Flawed Reform of the UK Cartel Offence
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 ... ...
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Mechanical Law Enforcement: Speeding and Camera Technology
... ... 5 The details of the offence are provided by the output of the machine and it is the machine that ... now provides for the admissibility into evidence of images and information produced by a camera installed for the purpose of detecting speeding and ... ...
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Offences Involving Data Protection
... ... 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 ... ...
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