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Long late-night hours poring through old legal texts in a stately library setting, with attractive albeit dishevelled colleagues: the storyline of most legal sitcoms. But the reality for legal professionals is not quite so glamorous. Closer to the truth is many unbillable hours spent, mostly alone in a law library, or in the office surrounded by law journals and texts, searching for relevant cases and precedents.
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Synthetic identity theft, or rather synthetic identity creation, has become a major breakthrough for fraudsters. The days of having to find a ‘mark’ with a good credit standing who ticks all the boxes for stealing their identity in order to defraud financial and other institutions, are fast disappearing. Syndicates have evolved in their methods of theft and fraud, safe in the knowledge that they can neither be identified, nor caught, and never be prosecuted.
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“Identity theft, criminal investigations of the dead or missing, mass disasters both by natural causes and by criminal intent – with this as our day to day reality, the establishment and verification of human identity has never been more important or more prominent in our society. Maintaining and protecting the integrity of our identity has reached levels of unprecedented importance and has led to international legislation to protect our human rights.” – (Forensic Human Identification: An Introduction, 1st Edition - Tim Thompson, Sue Black)
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Synthetic identity theft, or rather synthetic identity creation, has become a major breakthrough for fraudsters. The days of having to find a ‘mark’ with a good credit standing who ticks all the boxes for stealing their identity in order to defraud financial and other institutions, are fast disappearing. Syndicates have evolved in their methods of theft and fraud, safe in the knowledge that they can neither be identified, nor caught, and never be prosecuted.
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A donation of tech resources from LexisNexis South Africa is set to aid the Attorneys Development Fund (ADF) in its vision of empowering deserving law firms to become self-sustainable.
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A new law and policy forecasting report unveiled at the two-day Legal Innovation and Tech Fest