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The notion of “inclusive education” represents a dilemma in terms of universalization and particularization of the educational experience for all children. This notion, and dilemma, also translates into the international space, with “inclusive education” situated within the international human rights agenda in places such as the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite its prominence as a universal human rights topic, inclusive education is also a deeply and richly contextualized, localized, and relational phenomenon. In this chapter, the authors aim to explore current trends in research and practice of inclusive education from a comparative and international perspective, and offer some potential future directions for research and practice on inclusive education.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been provided with the statutory authority to demand the attendance of suspects at its offices and also to demand that information is supplied, irrespective of whether or not the suspect has been charged with a criminal offence. It has been held that the provisions of Art. 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) do protect the defendant from self‐incrimination, and the UK government has been successfully challenged at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) over these issues. The powers conferred on the SFO remain in place, but these must now be viewed in the context of the Human Rights Act 1998, which became law in the UK in October 2000; unless the powers of the SFO are reviewed by Parliament, it would seem to be the courts who will take responsibility in the UK for ensuring that the rights of suspects are upheld.

The transnational criminal certainly feels comfort faced with almost limitless option buttons, when surfing the ‘global cyber candy shop’ from the comfort of his cyber cafe armchair. The physical marketplace is rapidly transforming itself into a global electronic arena, where the multicultural consumer and its market‐driven society merge and execute limitless electronic transactions at the touch of a trader's dealing screen, electronic transfers, credit and debit cards, smart cards, and so on. These are just some of the mediums which are now exploited by the money launderer without leaving paper/audit trails for law enforcement agencies and compliance communities. Advances in communications, information systems and cyber electronic innovations increasingly dispel the myth that crime stops at the border.

Each decade, the global financial services industry spanning Western and Eastern economies, appears to enter another period of transformation, not only in terms of new financial products, but also mechanisms and methods of transaction. The technological issue that is currently sapping the energy of ministers throughout the developed and developing world, as well as computer experts, is the millennium bug syndrome. It is encouraging that policy makers and electronic experts are uniting in their efforts to avert an ‘electronic winter of discontent’ in the year 2000. The expediency of the spread of financial services throughout the global electronic arena, facilitated by the removal of real and visual borders, is set to reduce the current technological problems to miniscule proportions. Yet at present the response to the technological issue of even greater importance, Cybercrime, has resulted in discord, disagreement and apathy.

The pursuit of promoting inclusive education is rippling across Africa, and governments are working hard to ensure that all students are in schools and receive quality education, especially with the impetus of the Sustainable Development Goals. The importance of providing education to all children is essential, and collaboration is necessary. Collaboration between different professionals enhances the learning outcomes of all children through better identification, assessment, and appropriate placements. Lesotho is one example of countries that strive to provide all children with equal access to education, including those with disabilities. Although children with disabilities are sent to schools in Lesotho, teachers face challenges in teaching those students, which underscores the need for instructional collaboration between available special needs education professionals. This chapter describes inclusive education in Lesotho and provides an overview of the challenges related to implementing it through a multidisciplinary special education team. Finally, the chapter concludes that collaboration in teaching all students should be pursued by Lesotho to ensure sharing of ideas and building of relationships for the success of inclusive education.

Over the past decade the Russian Mafia has established itself as capable of causing serious disruptions within the world's financial markets. Organised crime groups control a substantial number of the banks within Russia and as a consequence they are capable of infiltrating major sources of money supply and taking control of legitimate businesses, both foreign and domestic. Once an organised crime group has entered the banking structure, it can expand its operations by using the veneer of legitimacy provided by the bank as a source of utility for further criminal ventures. The laundering of illegal proceeds, both national and international, has now become one of the major activities conducted by Russian organised crime groups in the former Soviet Union.

The face of the business market has changed beyond all recognition over the past decade, and while there is much talk of global markets some facts are indisputable. Europe is increasingly becoming a unified market, particularly in the field of financial services. The world economy is also becoming more transparent and open, which should lead to an increase in market opportunities, as well as to increased competition. Capital has become a highly mobile commodity, and with more use of Internet banking facilities and the use of e‐cash this will continue to intensify. New industries are being created through technological advances. In many instances these developments are extremely rapid, and the technology itself frequently allows new market participants to enter with minimal capital investment or established expertise. And the future economic prosperity of the UK will significantly depend on the ability this country has to adapt to the demands of increasingly knowledgeable and mobile consumers. One of the fundamental issues at stake for the credibility of UK business is whether it can sustain a competitive edge while at the same time ensuring that the rights of consumers and service providers are sufficiently well protected according to European and domestic legislation. Until recently the balance between ensuring fair treatment of consumers while promoting business productivity has been achieved within an environment of relatively slow‐moving market forces. The digital age has now arrived and the response from governments must be as rapid as the fast‐moving world in which international commerce is conducted. It is against the background of consumer and business use of computer and communications technology for the commercial exchange of products, services and information that the future of e‐commerce in the UK is discussed in this paper.

The Treaty of Amsterdam was signed on 2nd October 1997. Under Title IV the provisions of the Treaty on European Union are considerably modified and issues relating to freedom of movement, security and justice are subject to considerable new developments. One MP has questioned exactly what these new provisions amount to ‘… a 3,000 mile service for a car from hell’ or is it ‘… a fundamental reconstruction of the Union?’ It is arguably closer to the latter, as the proposals form the basis of a provision which provides the basis for an enlarged community.

In England and Wales the Crown Prosecutor is a lawyer who is independent from the investigation and is charged with assessing evidence and evaluating whether a prosecution should proceed or not. The CPS is intentionally authorised to override the decisions of the police to curb any potentially over‐zealous investigations and evidence gathering that might subsequently tarnish the standards of procedure in the courts when applying the criminal law. The increasingly burdensome rules of disclosure have made demands on the CPS which are akin to the overall requirement on the investigating magistrate of civil law jurisdictions to find the truth by examination of the prosecution and defence evidence. The recent moves to return a limited number of lawyers to police stations is a further indication that the future role of the CPS may include an active rather than solely passive role in evidence gathering. The Serious Fraud Office are directly involved in the investigation and prosecution of complex frauds. This office has statutory and judicial authority to conduct investigations which follow an inquisitorial rather than accusatorial model. The juge d'instruction in France has authority to direct and control police investigations and subsequently to compile a dossier of evidence for presentation before a trial court. This paper points out that there are close parallels emerging in pre‐trial procedures in England and Wales and in France and the criticisms of the role of the investigating magistrate, the ‘sick man’, may hold lessons to be learnt for investigators and prosecutors within this jurisdiction.

Introduces the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA), a determined effort to modernise financial regulation which creates the Financial Services Authority (FSA) as a monolithic regulator and the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal as an appellate channel. Shows how the Act represents a shift from self‐regulation to statutory regulation, remedying the shortcomings of the 1986 Financial Services Act. Outlines the FSA’s powers, and how they might conflict with the European Convention on Human Rights. Compares the FSMA with the Canadian approach to the questions of balancing regulation and public confidence in the market on one side, with protection of individual rights on the other; these concerns are embodied respectively in the Securities Act and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.