This report was commissioned and funded by the Secretary of State’s Office for Net Assessment and Challenge (SONAC), Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
As was requested by SONAC, it seeks to predict possibl...
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Unlawful transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This guest lecture starts by exploring the various violations committed against children by the parties to the conflict in Ukraine. It then moves on to focus on the removal of Ukrainian children from Ukraine to occupied territories and Russia. Using... Read More about Unlawful transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children.
Comprehensive Resolution: (how) can we stop the suffering in the Family Court and help parties to resolve their disputes and to remain emotionally intact? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
For many, the breakdown of a family is a difficult and painful process. If a dispute is not handled well, the financial, psychological and emotional impact on children and adults may be immense.
The need to find fair, cost-effective and practica... Read More about Comprehensive Resolution: (how) can we stop the suffering in the Family Court and help parties to resolve their disputes and to remain emotionally intact?.
Tax Evasion and the Law: A Comparative Analysis of the UK and USA (2024)
Book
Following the global financial crisis, and a number of tax evasion scandals, there has been an increased public demand for countries to tackle tax evasion. In response, the past two decades have seen the diffusion of international cooperation in tax... Read More about Tax Evasion and the Law: A Comparative Analysis of the UK and USA.
How to create a fraud prevention ecosystem (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dr Diana Johnson moderated the panel event at the South West Fraud Forum annual conference. The panel was an extremely engaging and informative one, with panellists discussing how to identify and stop professional enablers/insider fraud, how to prote... Read More about How to create a fraud prevention ecosystem.
How has a risk-based regulatory environment altered your relationships with regulatory bodies? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Financial crime regulation has moved from an environment where regulators expect specific activities, to one which is outcome based, with a degree of flexibility on how these outcomes are reached. This shift has dramatically changed anti-financial cr... Read More about How has a risk-based regulatory environment altered your relationships with regulatory bodies?.
Challenging Equality Law: The Deaf Legal Dilemma (2024)
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Imagine a deaf child yearning to learn on their own terms, a deaf professional barred from their dream job because they don’t quite fit the mould, a deaf senior passed from pillar to post within health care systems vulnerable and uncertain, and the v... Read More about Challenging Equality Law: The Deaf Legal Dilemma.
Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) is a global network of asylum seeking and refugee women, academics, practitioners, policymakers and activists. Our submission draws together recent evidence and knowledge from our UK members with lived experience of claimi... Read More about Submission to the special rapporteur on violence against women and girls to inform her visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Consolidating group-based refugee protection (2024)
Digital Artefact
In this blog post, Christel Querton explores two pending cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and how they provide an opportunity for the CJEU to consolidate group-based refugee protection.
Criminalisation of solidarity towards migrants in the European Union - Issues, challenges and solutions (2024)
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The talk has two objectives. It first explains the process of criminalization of solidarity in the European Union and especially how the law is used as an instrument of securitization and sanction against solidaristic acts. It also provides examples... Read More about Criminalisation of solidarity towards migrants in the European Union - Issues, challenges and solutions.
The concept of legal convergence (2024)
Book Chapter
The concept of convergence of legal systems stands for a leading idea in the modern discipline of law. Whereas one could neo-romantically still perceive law as a Landesjurisprudenz, a sort of provincial and domestic study, it would be fair to maintai... Read More about The concept of legal convergence.
Collective Self-Defence in International Law (2024)
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Collective self-defence can be defined as the use of military force by one or more states to aid another state that is an innocent victim of armed attack. However, it is a legal justification that is open to abuse and its exercise risks escalating co... Read More about Collective Self-Defence in International Law.
Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice (2024)
Digital Artefact
Economic crimes and war crimes (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This keynote speech starts by providing a definition of war crimes under the Statute of the International Criminal Court and then focuses on war crimes that can be deemed to be of an economic nature. The speech then moves on to examine the definition... Read More about Economic crimes and war crimes.
The role of race in the conceptualization of South African apartheid as a crime (2024)
Book Chapter
Race is an element and key concept in atrocity crimes such as genocide and apartheid. The construction of race as an element of the crime of apartheid in the paradigmatic case study of South Africa is investigated in this chapter, taking into account... Read More about The role of race in the conceptualization of South African apartheid as a crime.
Continuing discrimination in the times of technology: Women, work, algorithms and law in India (2023)
Journal Article
Human societies are discriminatory. So, it has been an unrelenting effort to eliminate what divides us. While there have been leapfrog developments in this regard, we need to consider newer challenges now that technology is taking over public and pri... Read More about Continuing discrimination in the times of technology: Women, work, algorithms and law in India.
A year in review: What progress has been made in relation to corporate criminal liability in the UK? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper will examine how the UKs approach towards corporate criminal liability has evolved since the publication of the Law Commission Options paper in June 2022. Corporate crime is a significant challenge for society, it causes harm to citizens,... Read More about A year in review: What progress has been made in relation to corporate criminal liability in the UK?.
Autistic and accused: A critical discussion of contemporary challenges to fair and effective criminal proceedings for autistic suspects and defendants (2023)
Journal Article
Examines the challenges facing autistic people suspected, accused or convicted of crime from a socio-legal perspective. Discusses problematic legal procedures from initial contact with the police, pre-trial custodial interaction to trials and sentenc... Read More about Autistic and accused: A critical discussion of contemporary challenges to fair and effective criminal proceedings for autistic suspects and defendants.
Exposing equality law as it relates to Deaf people: Developing Deaf Legal Theory (2023)
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Bryan and Emery (2014) argue that for 'Deaf jurisprudence' to develop, the current underpinnings of law that are based on incomplete assumptions need to be exposed and to do so, Deaf Legal Theory needs to be applied to particular aspects of the law.... Read More about Exposing equality law as it relates to Deaf people: Developing Deaf Legal Theory.