February 07, 2025 - New data which shows around one in four people has a criminal record has led to increased calls for fairer checks on criminal records by employers. Recently the Ministry of Justice released its estimate of the number of individuals of working age with a nominal record on the Police National Computer (PNC). According to a Ministry of Justice extract of PNC data there were 9.4 million offenders of working age (16-64) with a nominal record, as opposed to the population of 42.4m. Nominal records include not only those persons with convictions but also those with impending prosecutions, cautions, cases that require no further action and any other criminal justice activity on their record The Home Offic...
January 30, 2025 - Cidade, comarca and município are three words that can be easily confusing. On first blush they may seem like synonyms, but they actually ar...
January 28, 2025 - You're asking to compare two different types of criminal record checks, likely from the same source (CCRTIS). CCRTIS stands for Cana...
January 19, 2025 - TUTORIAL - Classifications of Canad...
January 14, 2025 - Colombia's court system is a bit unique because it doesn't have a single highest court. Instead, it has four High Courts, each with supreme...
January 14, 2025 - CRAs (Pre-employment screeningcompanies) have faced quite a few legal challenges in recent years, mostly related to inaccuracies in their bac...
January 14, 2025 - An expansion of the Courts Service’s digital court-management system is among the key objectives set out in the organisation’s latest t...
January 13, 2025 - While the Cayman Islands are known for financial privacy, there are several legitimate reasons why someone might need to search their court records...
January 12, 2025 - In Turkey, criminal cases are primarily prosecuted in a specialized system of courts. Here's a breakdown of the key players:...
December 13, 2024 - The UK is considering a new intermediate court tier to combat a record backlog of cases and prison overcrowding. Overcrowding led to early prisoner...
December 13, 2024 - Crown court backlog in England and Wales hits new record high The figures prompted the Government to announce a major review of the courts syst...
September 26, 2024 - Contrary to many popular assumptions, the courts in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are currently operational, albeit with irregular procedures and witho...
August 05, 2024 - New data released shows the number of open cases in the magistrates’ courts continue to pile up, the Law Society of England and Wales has sai...
July 31, 2024 - Are Court records exempt from GDPR? Yes, court records are exempt from some GDPR provisions under the "legal proceedings"...
July 27, 2024 - A B.C. courtroom is believed to be the site of Canada’s first case of artificial intelligence inventing fake legal cases. Lawy...
July 02, 2024 - Italy’s Scorza: publicly available data is not for training algorithms “Privacy rights are becoming commercial and technological as...
June 24, 2024 - In a landmark judgment, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled on 21 April 2023 that Dutch courts must make case details publicly accessible. This con...
June 14, 2024 - If a Suspended Sentence Shows Up on Your Ontario Criminal Record ... Then What? You will have a criminal record..... With a suspe...
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