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Legal authority is a well-known “issue” in the cryptocurrency and block-chain world. For years, strong idealistic proponents of...

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British citizenship Deprivation decision Case R (on the application of Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission and Others [2021]...

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On 15 February 2011, Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings became the first company to be convicted of the offence of corporate manslaughter...

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Police removal of plants from cannabis factory; personal protective equipment. The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992...

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British citizenship Deprivation decision Case R (on the application of Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission and Others [2021]...

The appeal to the Supreme Court concerned claims by 40,000 claimants in Nigeria. They alleged that they had suffered damage resulting...