The UK Modern Slavery Act has been on the statute books for over a decade. Most organisations with a turnover above £36 million know they are required to publish an annual statement under Section 54. A significant proportion do so, and a...

More than 23,000 potential victims of modern slavery were referred to the National Referral Mechanism in 2025. That’s a 22% increase on the year before, and the highest annual total since the NRM was created in 2009. Those numbers alone...

Introduction

A legal shift with practical consequences is underway. The government plans to return the test used in police misconduct cases involving use of force to the criminal law test, centring assessments on whether an officer...