Courts in Britain

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2023

Rising inheritance disputes

Courts in England have seen an increase in inheritance disputes. A boom in asset prices and rising prevalence of dementia are leading to costly family conflicts over wills, the [1] FT reported.

Large volume of cases in which evidence is collected by hackers for money

In mid-January 2023, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Great Britain published a report on investigative journalism, which said that many cases in the country's courts revolve around data and evidence obtained by leading law firms through the services of hackers for hire.

This is evidenced by a multimillion-dollar court case between an authoritarian Gulf emirate and an Iranian-American businessman. The case includes allegations that a former Metropolitan Police officer hired Indian hackers, and lawyers for one of City's leading firms conducted a secret "perjury school" in the Swiss Alps to prepare false testimonies about how they took possession of illegally obtained information, the report said.

Researchers, together with Sunday Times journalists, back in November 2022 talked about Aditya Jain, a computer security expert who organized a hacker operation from. India The Jain gang was used by private detectives linked to the City of London and the Metropolitan Police to attack British businesses, officials governmental and journalists. The findings were then used in court cases and used as evidence. Some of the hacker's clients were contracted to major law firms with bases in the City, the report said.

A unique feature of the UK legal system is that a judge will in most cases accept hacked emails as evidence in court in the interest of justice, unless he finds reasons to rule them out. This means that the illegality of the evidence is not really an important factor in the court because judges prefer to see any evidence that will help them establish the truth in the case.^[1]