Legal

Law courses at UK universities have seen a record number of female applicants in the latest annual data, a freedom of information request has revealed

The number of suspicious activity reports (SARs) reported to the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the last financial year has risen to 901,255 – a 21 percent increase on the previous year.

Law firm RWK Goodman has appointed Cherry Stuckey as a partner in its private client team

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged crypto firm Nexo Capital with failing to register the offer and sale of its retail crypto asset lending product, the Earn Interest Product (EIP)

An international operation involving the National Crime Agency has taken down a ransomware service used by cyber criminals to attack and extort businesses across the globe

A new pilot scheme that will allow journalists to report on proceedings in family court for the first time has launched in England & Wales

The government of Cyprus has stripped 222 wealthy investors and their family members of citizenship, according to reports

Almost three quarters of parents in the UK have no legal plans in place to make sure their children are looked after should the parents die, according to research from Solicitor for the Elderly (SFE)

One of the more profound changes in society over the last 50 years or so is that ‘living in sin’ is widely acceptable, across the generations. Indeed, statistics confirm that over five million couples do so and, further, that in 2021 for the first time, more children were born to unmarried than to married parents

Offshore law firm Carey Olsen has appointed Robert Dobbyn as a partner in its trusts and private wealth practice in Jersey