First we should be clear on what Conveyancing is. It is the legal act of transferring ownership of property from one party to another. Instruments of conveyance are things like contracts, leases, titles, deeds, or wills. People who specialize in this process are called conveyancers. In theory you could deal with this yourself, but whatever […]
The Year in Review: Outcomes for Children in Need from 2020 to 2021
The top 10 largest children’s care providers made £300m profits the last year. Is this a good thing? One would have to say yes, since providers remaining solvent helps the service help children even if there is an increasing involvement of private equity. At the same time however, there is concern that some providers are […]
False Positives in Digital Evidence Ruining People’s Lives
Trust the data, because people lie. This is the prevailing line of thought in the modern prosecutorial system. The more information that agencies can collect, the better. Access to information is how the world works in the 21st century, and privacy – or the control over one’s own personal information – is one of the […]
Getting Help for Domestic Abuse in the UK is Like Playing the Lottery
Did you know that the Crown Protection Services (CPS) records show that the charging rates for domestic abuse has lowered for the third year in the row? Is that good news? No, it means that the number of cases actually prosecuted has fallen while domestic abuse cases recorded by the police are at record high […]
How NOT to Get Your Family Law Case Destroyed by Facebook
Like it or not, many cases find themselves entangled with social media. Things done on the Internet can have drastic effects in someone’s personal life, and many cases have been destroyed by actions on Facebook. Social media can’t even be blamed for such things because it is a natural consequences of their ill-thought actions. Facebook […]