The Court of Appeal in England this week ruled that the automatic disclosure of all convictions and cautions on CRB checks, regardless of their relevance to the job in question, is disproportionate – and therefore incompatible with the right to private life under article 8 of the Human Rights Act…

Two businessmen were convicted last week of conspiring to defraud banks, principally Allied Irish Banks (AIB) and the Bank of Scotland, of millions of pounds and euros. Achilleas Michaelis Kallakis (44) and Alexander Martin Williams (44) were sentenced to seven years' and five years' imprisonment respectively and disqualified from acting…

A Dundee man has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment, after being convicted of three charges of being knowingly involved in the fraudulent evasion of VAT and two charges of money laundering, occurring between 2002 and 2004. Shahid Ramzan was found guilty of profiting to a total of £20.5 million…

The Scottish Government is consulting on new proposals for safeguards to the criminal justice system, after reviewing responses to the Carloway consultation. In 2011 Lord Carloway was asked to review a range of aspects of Scottish criminal law and practice, in the aftermath of the Cadder decision, which held that…

New rules that will give EU law enforcement authorities the right to access the Eurodac database to check asylum seekers’ fingerprints took a step forward this week. MEPs voted to allow the access, but only if greater protection is given to personal data. Eurodac stores the fingerprints of asylum seekers…

European justice ministers meeting in the Council of the European Union last week reached agreement on proposals for a Directive on insider dealing and market manipulation that will criminalise such behaviour. Insider dealing occurs when a person who has price-sensitive inside information trades in related financial instruments. Market manipulation takes…

A prosecution service campaign targeting knife carrying offenders over the seasonal period has been launched by the Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland QC. Last year during the festive period the Lord Advocate introduced a zero tolerance knife crime prosecution policy. Anyone caught in possession of a knife in Scotland’s town or…

The Crown Office has reported that the Civil Recovery Unit is to recover £5.6 million under Proceeds of Crime legislation after a Scottish drilling company accepted that it had benefited from unlawful conduct. Abbot Group Limited (“Abbot”), which is based in Aberdeen, admitted that it had benefited from corrupt payments…

Statistics published by the Scottish Government have provided a detailed picture of the scale of religious hate crimes across Scotland. The figures show that: The proportional spread of religions targeted has remained similar, with the two main religious beliefs targeted being Catholicism and Protestantism. There were 19 attacks on…

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