Sexual Harm Prevention Orders (SHPOs)
Another example of the advance of technology and how the Law is catching up is the area of “deep fakes” and Sexual Harm Prevention Orders (SHPOs). It is now possible for a sentencing court to ban an individual from using Artificial Intelligence (AI) generating tools which could be used to create offending images. Mr Anthony […]
Online Child Abuse Vigilante Groups
Online child abuse activist groups or vigilantes have taken steps which has led to the arrest and prosecution of a number of individuals for online and other offences relating to children. In many instances this has involved members of these groups pretending to be children online through fake social media profiles, thus causing suspects to […]
Sharing Photographs or Film of a person in an ‘Intimate State’
It is also an offence to share a photograph or film which shows a person in an “intimate state” and the person in that state does not consent to the sharing and the sharer does not reasonable believe that that person is consenting. It is also an offence for a person to share for sexual […]
The Crown Prosecution Service – Cyber Flashing & Online Sexual Behaviour
The Crown Prosecution Service will be from now considering charging online sexual behaviour such as cyber flashing, down blouse images, women breast feeding, and sharing so called “deep fake” files. These actions are now an offence under The Online Safety Act 2023. The new law applies to England and Wales. Offenders face up to two […]
Dorian & Co. Solicitors Blog
This is the blog of Dorian & Co. Solicitors. We are a criminal law firm based in South West London with two specialist areas: sexual offences and international criminal law. We offer a complete service from the Police Station (investigative stage) through the Magistrates’ Court and Crown Court to the Court of Appeal (appellate stage). […]