The Supreme Court has in today’s judgment in R (Lumsdon) v Legal Services Board ruled lawful the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates, as approved by the Legal Services Board. The scheme will require […]

I wrote yesterday at Guardian Law about the Law Commission’s new consultation paper on Criminal Liability in Regulatory Contexts, which has been reported as proposing the repeal of minor criminal offences:

The alternative approach proposed by the Law […]

Last night it was reported that the FSA would act to clamp down on “short selling“; the objective obviously being to deter speculative attacks on banks such as those on HBOS that went on for some time before […]