Railway strikes in the UK have halted services throughout July and Augst 2022.
Sony, owners and creators of the gaming sensation PlayStation, have been hit with a lawsuit with a possible £5 billion pay out.
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The UK government has once again extended its trade sanctions with Russia.
The UK underwent a record-breaking heatwave in July with another hitting the country in August.
The UK has blocked a Chinese company from purchasing intellectual property from the University of Manchester using its powers under the National Security and Investment Act.
The High court has been looking to put forward an amendment that stops the UK signing trade deals with states that have been found guilty of committing genocide. The House of Lords All-Party genocide Amendment has recently hit the house commons and has been defeated by a small vote margin of 11.
'The UK could still sign a trade deal with a state committing genocide...This amendment puts that right'.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), an independent financial regulatory body, contend that National Westminster Bank PLC, commonly referred to as NatWest, failed to adhere to certain clauses of the Money Laundering Regulations Act 2007 (MLR 2007). The FCA alleges that “NatWest’s systems and controls failed to adequately monitor and scrutinise” suspicious transactional activity between November 2011 and October 2016, and so were remiss in their duty to prevent money laundering.
In the wake of the vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common, on Tuesday the parliament voted on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Its contents have been widely criticised as “draconian”. Despite opposition on both sides of the House, the Bill passed by 359 votes to 263 on Tuesday night.
Arcadia Group, the parent company of retail stores such as Topshop, Miss Guided and Dorothy Perkins, officially went into administration on 30th November 2020, affecting 13,000 jobs. Ian Grabiner, the chief executive of Arcadia Group, cited the pandemic as being the main reason for the group’s collapse
From renewable energy to vegan trainers, our world is constantly evolving to become more environmentally friendly. As of recently, a group of campaigners in South Oxfordshire have decided to challenge the local council’s approval of a new home development project, by a judicial review. The £3.6million project is set to build 30,000 homes by at least 2035, situated near Oxford United’s Kassam Stadium.
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Cambridge University has introduced a new foundation year scheme, designed to give disadvantaged young people a more realistic and obtainable avenue to the university. The scheme reduces the usual entry requirement of A*AA to BBB for students who had their education ‘disadvantaged or disrupted’ and are from lower-income households.
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The recent statement from the European Commission has thrown the UK rehabilitation system into the spotlight. Illuminated in a recent study on detainees’ experience of incarceration, interviews with inmates informed of an emerging culture of “learned deception”,[1] where participation in classes arises not out of a want for learning or for change, but simply out of an understanding that these present “a possibility of getting out quicker”.
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The European Commission for Human Rights has issued a statement. requiring the Member States to “take urgent steps to protect the rights and health of prisoners” in response to the current pandemic.Bringing to light the contentious issue of prisoners’ rights, the statement entrenches the importance of human dignity in the penal context. With the aim of protecting detainees from egregious wrongs and fostering realistic prospects of rehabilitation.
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