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16-04-2023 19:46 via lawgazette.co.uk

Thursday, 18 May 2023, 2:00-3:30 pm (BST / UK time)

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16-04-2023 19:46 via lawgazette.co.uk

Efforts to digitise the legal profession, including courts andtribunals, have met with mixed success. If we really want to transform how the justice system works, we must address the fundamentals of how courts, practitioners, and clients interact.

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Ministers ignored red flags over Covid fraud, says former head of SFO

16-04-2023 15:45

Exclusive: Sir David Green suggests ‘prudence was thrown out the window’ as UK lost billions of pounds in pandemic business supportThe former head of Britain’s financial crime prosecutor has said “red flags were ignored” in the rush to distribute taxpayer funded emergency loans to businesses during the pandemic, and questioned whether fraud was taken seriously by the government.Parliament’s spending watchdog estimates fraud and error were likely to have cost t

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‘Stop or I’ll fire you’: the driver who defied Uber’s automated HR

16-04-2023 13:04

Alexandru Iftimie received apology from tech giant after investigating data behind his supposed fraudAlexandru Iftimie, a 39-year-old who came to the UK from Romania seven years ago, was just about making ends meet as an Uber driver during the pandemic when he got an unexpected message from the ride-sharing app.“I received a warning: ‘We detected some fraudulent activity, therefore you have to stop otherwise I have to fire you,’” he recalls. Continue reading...

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