Confiscation
…rule that a defendant’s assets are inadequate to pay an order under the current provisions. Usually the courts have no option but to impose the obligatory default sentence, and thereafter…
Search Results for digital assets
Project: Intestacy and Family Provision Claims on Death
Project status: Complete
…assets is governed by a set of legal rules – the intestacy rules. In addition to this, certain family members and dependants may apply to court for reasonable financial provision…
Reforms to confiscation regime to recover £8 million more per year
…order made personally against a defendant to pay a sum of money equivalent to some or all of their benefit from crime, depending on the assets available to the defendant….
Generating ideas for the Law Commission’s 14th Programme of law reform
…law reform can include: modernisation, for example supporting and facilitating technological and digital development; economic, for example reducing costs or generating funds; fairness, for example supporting individual and social justice;…
Project: Search Warrants
Project status: Complete
…investigate crime successfully. These include: Updating law enforcement powers so that they more clearly apply to electronic devices and data and allow digital evidence to be seized and copied effectively….
Reforms to protect victims of online abuse and safeguard freedom of expression announced
…of expression by narrowing the reach of the criminal law so it only criminalises the most harmful behaviour.” Minister for Digital and Culture Caroline Dinenage said: “We are putting…
Law Commission publishes scoping paper on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations
…and Common Law, Professor Sarah Green said, “Digital Autonomous Organisations are internet-based entities that are difficult to define and to align with existing legal forms. There is even disagreement as…
Electoral reforms would reduce confusion and bring elections into the 21st Century
…changes include simplifying the nomination process, adding imprinting for digital advertisements and updating the circumstances that could result in a poll being suspended Reforms to simplify, clarify and improve electoral…
Electronic signatures are valid say Government’s legal experts
…to sweep away the current uncertainty in the law, allowing businesses to speed up transactions by going fully digital. The Commission has also laid out possible steps which could further…
Project: Electronic Communications Code
Project status: Complete
Download the report Download the summary The problem The Electronic Communications Code was created in 1984 and replaced in the Digital Economy Act 2017. The Code sets out the regime…