Business owners found guilty of illegal disposal of rubbish and waste are to face more severe punishment in future following an announcement that the sentencing Council in England and Wales are to review the sentencing guidelines for environmental crimes. It has been proposed that those...
If there was one answer to the drugs problem, only one route then we would take it. It would be nonsense not to. The solution is not simple, however, and the means of achieving results on a grand scale rather than individually are not always that apparent. But what can be said...
Section 172 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 is perhaps not the most riveting of subjects in itself. In brief, Subsection 2 of Section 172 requires the person keeping the vehicle to give information as to the identification of the driver or indeed any other person to give information which is...
It is said by some that it was in response to media pressure that the Government brought into force legislation to prohibit the ownership of certain dogs and also to make it a criminal offence to have a dog dangerously out of control and to cause injury whilst out of such control. The...
When the Prime Minister, David Cameron, used International Women's Day to announce that stalking would become a specific offence; this area of criminal law once again came under the spotlight. The current legislation had come under earlier scrutiny when an independent parliamentary enquiry had...