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The in  office.  One of the bills introduced is the Serious Crime Bill 2014-15, which will provide new measures primarily intended to disrupt serious and organised crime.

The Bill will also introduce an amendment to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and it will be used to Implement Directive 2013/40/EU regarding attacks against information systems, which must be implemented by September 2015.

Stewart James, Partner at Ashfords LLP, considers the implications of the Bill on combatting cybercrime.

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Practical Law Public Sector addresses the questions that schools may ask local authorities regarding day-to-day school management and sets out the legal issues to consider when responding:

In this edition, we look at the issues involved where a parent of a pupil at an academy wishes to access their child’s educational records without the child’s consent. For details of all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs

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May was a busy month for public procurement case law, with this month’s digest covering decisions on automatic suspension, the requirements for particulars of claim, in-house contract award and limitation periods, as well as an Advocate General’s opinion on development projects.

Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the cases covered or think that we have missed a case that should be brought to the attention of public procurement practitioners.

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Our second post of 2014 on the key developments in public procurement policy lawyers need to be aware of covers the period from March to May 2014. It does not consider case law as this is covered in our monthly public procurement case digest. For a summary of the latest cases, see Public procurement case digest (April 2014).

Subscribers to Practical Law can keep up to date with the latest public procurement developments by signing up to the Practical Law Public Sector e-mail update (available weekly) or the Practical Law Competition updates (available daily). Updates are also tweeted on the @PracLawProcure Twitter feed.

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