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Using pedagogical and psychological insights to train analysts using confidential data (2023)
Journal Article

With researchers increasingly gaining access to confidentiality data through restricted environments, interest has grown in the training of those researchers to protect confidentiality and to use the secure facility effectively. Researcher training,... Read More about Using pedagogical and psychological insights to train analysts using confidential data.

Higher education institutions and the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulations (2023)
Journal Article

To tackle money laundering and terrorism financing, the United Kingdom has implemented global mechanisms introduced by the United Nations and the Financial Action Task Force. These mechanisms viewed financial institutions as gatekeepers to the financ... Read More about Higher education institutions and the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulations.

Fertile or futile grounds for excluding criminal responsibility? A critical analysis of the Ongwen judgment in relation to the claim of coercive environment (2023)
Journal Article

Dominic Ongwen was convicted and sentenced for numerous atrocities by the International Criminal Court (icc) in 2021. The Defence focused on the coercive environment that Ongwen was subjected to from his abduction as a boy until his surrender as an a... Read More about Fertile or futile grounds for excluding criminal responsibility? A critical analysis of the Ongwen judgment in relation to the claim of coercive environment.

Enforcing the legal principle of duty of care in corporate human rights violations and environmental damage cases in developing countries (2023)
Journal Article

Corporate accountability for human rights violations in international legal systems has proven to be a watershed. This is because there are inadequacies in the existing accountability mechanisms as well as several other legal problems and factual obs... Read More about Enforcing the legal principle of duty of care in corporate human rights violations and environmental damage cases in developing countries.

Suspects still left in limbo? The continuing challenge of pre-charge bail (2023)
Journal Article

Pre-charge bail has undergone significant reform in recent years. In 2017, changes introduced by the Policing and Crime Act 2017 placed time limits on pre-charge bail. Notwithstanding this attempt to regulate the use of bail more effectively, police... Read More about Suspects still left in limbo? The continuing challenge of pre-charge bail.

To exchange or not to exchange – that is the question. A critical analysis of the use of financial intelligence and the exchange of information in the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article

This article examines the international standards relating to information exchange, identifying its importance in relation to combatting financial crime. The paper critiques the results of the Financial Action Task Force’s Fourth United Kingdom Mutu... Read More about To exchange or not to exchange – that is the question. A critical analysis of the use of financial intelligence and the exchange of information in the United Kingdom.

Neurological aspect of ethics and integrity: A fundamental compound element of law and tax compliance (2023)
Journal Article

This article examines the ethics and integrity approach to modelling the law and tax compliance process and investigates different factors that influence legal and governance systems in society. It explores the foundations of human decision-making an... Read More about Neurological aspect of ethics and integrity: A fundamental compound element of law and tax compliance.

Ghana ecological risks: A space law and science education approach to the management frameworks (2023)
Journal Article

This article discusses what Ghana needs for the development of legal and scientific education programmes to manage framework of biodiversity and the ecosystem. The first part of the article examines literature produced on this topic, which offers man... Read More about Ghana ecological risks: A space law and science education approach to the management frameworks.

Country guidance, country of origin information and the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts (2023)
Journal Article

The article explores whether the European Union Agency for Asylum's country guidance (CG) reflects the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts. It uses the Agency's guidance on Iraq as a case study through the lens of object... Read More about Country guidance, country of origin information and the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts.

Vulnerability, resilience, and rape: Uncovering the hidden work of police officers during rape investigations (2023)
Journal Article

Drawing on original empirical data comprising police interviews and case file analysis, this article seeks to better understand the policing responses to cases of rape and specifically, the ways in which officers assist victims in the context of two... Read More about Vulnerability, resilience, and rape: Uncovering the hidden work of police officers during rape investigations.

Broadcasting crown court sentencing - A tentative step forward for open justice? (2023)
Journal Article

Pursuant to the Crown Court (Recording and Broadcasting) Order 2020, television cameras have now been permitted to broadcast sentencing remarks made by Judges in Crown Courts. The first such occasion of this was in the case of R v Ben Oliver (2022).... Read More about Broadcasting crown court sentencing - A tentative step forward for open justice?.

Corrupt corporations and the facilitation of tax crimes: A review of the United Kingdom's enforcement mechanisms (2023)
Journal Article

Financial crime is synonymous with the seminal work of Edwin H. Sutherland, which used the term “white-collar crime” in 1940. Sutherland defined the term as “a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his... Read More about Corrupt corporations and the facilitation of tax crimes: A review of the United Kingdom's enforcement mechanisms.

Embodied artificial intelligence and jus ad bellum necessity: Influence and imminence in the digital age (2022)
Journal Article

In “re-opening” the classic debate surrounding a state’s wider right of self- defense (in light of emerging technologies, and via the “lens” of influence communications), the authors controversially “close” the following discussion in favor of allowi... Read More about Embodied artificial intelligence and jus ad bellum necessity: Influence and imminence in the digital age.

The ‘real man’ in the global war on drugs: Narco versus militarised masculinities (2022)
Journal Article

Drawing on a discursive analysis of the life stories of thirty-three men who worked in drug trade organisations in Mexico, this article examines how masculinities are constructed in their narratives, and how these constructions mirror militarised mas... Read More about The ‘real man’ in the global war on drugs: Narco versus militarised masculinities.

Sleep-facilitated sexual assault: An analysis of case data featuring female and male victims of rape (2022)
Journal Article

This note addresses a form of rape that is neglected in the scholarly literature. This form of offending occurs when a male uses his penis to vaginally, orally or anally penetrate a female or male who is sleeping at the time of the penetration. The d... Read More about Sleep-facilitated sexual assault: An analysis of case data featuring female and male victims of rape.

Neurodivergence in the CJS and the role of the Bar (Part 1) (2022)
Journal Article

The first of a two-part series of articles examining the experience of neurodivergent individuals (for example, those who are autistic or have ADHD) in the criminal justice system, and how criminal defence barristers can mitigate or aggravate challen... Read More about Neurodivergence in the CJS and the role of the Bar (Part 1).

The Rohingya crisis: A critical analysis of the United Nations security council and international human rights law (2022)
Journal Article

This essay reviews the human rights violations against the Rohingya people in 2017 and assesses the effectiveness of accountability under the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). It is concluded that under the principles of ethics and integrity... Read More about The Rohingya crisis: A critical analysis of the United Nations security council and international human rights law.

The conflict in Ukraine and genocide (2022)
Journal Article

Since the beginning of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that started on 24 February 2022 accusations of genocide have been levelled against each other by both sides. This article focuses on the claim that Russia is carrying out a genocide in U... Read More about The conflict in Ukraine and genocide.

Keeping control of personal information in the digital age: Efficacy and equivalence of tortious and GDPR/DPA remedial relief? (2022)
Journal Article

A global recognition of the threat to the protection of private information online, coming in particular from the big “tech” companies, is currently increasingly apparent. The same concerns, this article will argue, are driving significant legislati... Read More about Keeping control of personal information in the digital age: Efficacy and equivalence of tortious and GDPR/DPA remedial relief?.

Non-State actors of protection and the sliding scale of protection for refugee women (2022)
Journal Article

The article argues that although the gradual recognition of non-State actors as agents of persecution was hailed as a success in ensuring better protection for refugee women at risk of harm from their community or family, the associated development o... Read More about Non-State actors of protection and the sliding scale of protection for refugee women.