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The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) is an important piece of legislation that governs the powers and procedures of police officers when conducting criminal investigations, making arrests and gathering evidence. It establishes guidelines for the detention, questioning, and treatment of suspects, as well as rules for the conduct of searches and seizures. PACE […]
08/05/24
Tax & HMRC
KANGS has successfully represented a client who was the subject of an HMRC compliance check into her Self-Assessment Tax Returns. Tim Thompson of KANGS explains how this successful result was achieved. The Nature of HMRC Compliance Checks When HMRC wishes to ensure that an individual, business or company is complying with their obligations to declare […]
07/05/24
Criminal Litigation, Sports Law
The Football Spectators Act 1989 (‘the Act’) not only created specific offences relating to fan behaviour, such as throwing objects onto the pitch or into the crowd, racist chanting, violence against persons or property and alcohol-related offences. It also ushered in the implementation of Football Banning Orders. A Football Banning Order may be imposed on […]
03/05/24
Criminal Litigation
The Unduly Lenient Sentence Scheme (‘ULS’) enables any person to request a review by the Attorney General of a Crown Court Sentence if they feel the sentence passed is considered too lenient. However, an Unduly Lenient Sentence only applies to a sentence that is unduly lenient, as opposed to lenient: ‘… where it falls outside […]
02/05/24