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Richard English contributes to Reuters Fact Check on Face Covering Laws

Fact check: Police in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland have power to enforce face-covering laws, with Wales to follow Posts shared online have claimed British police have no power to arrest or fine people for not wearing masks. This claim is misleading. England, Scotland and Northern Ireland all have rules…Read more

The Sentencing Code: Order out of Chaos

INTRODUCTION For the vast majority of the practising lives of most lawyers specialising in crime, the provisions relating to sentencing have been a source of constant complaint: multiple statutes, sometimes amended before they came into effect, often seem designed to make accessing the law, and working out which provisions actually…Read more