UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has teamed up with her US and Australian counterparts to criticise Facebook’s end-to-end encryption policy. End-to-end encryption allows users to have private conversations which only the participants can read. In an...
Conspiracy Solicitor Blog
Bird and Co are delighted to announce that Stuart Wild has accepted an invitation to join Bird & Co Solicitors LLP as a Partner with effect from 1st February 2019. Stuart started at Bird & Co in April 2004 and was soon appointed Head of the...
22 people have been arrested and 10 charged following raids targeting illegal drugs suppliers operating in Cumbria, according to police reports . The arrests happened in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, as well as in Coventry and London on 8 and 9 January,...
Significant changes to the law around police bail came into force across England & Wales on Monday 3rd April 2017 and nowhere more important have these changes affected the investigation of crime than in large scale conspiracies. This has resulted in...
A criminal conspiracy exists when two or more people agree to commit almost any unlawful act, and then take some action towards its completion. The action taken need not itself be a crime, but it must indicate that those involved in the conspiracy knew of...