We are delighted to announce that Brian McDonald has been shortlisted as “Employer Mentor / Line Manager of the year” in the Just IT Apprenticeship awards 2019. Read more.
As part of its 5 year anti-corruption strategy, the government has recently launched the Economic Crime Strategic Board to provide ministerial direction and oversight to the various agencies responsible for combatting economic crime and corruption. Neil Swift looks at the ECSB’s aims and objectives, and considers whether it is more than mere window dressing. Please […]
Peters & Peters are instructed by the Claimants, the Secretary of State for Health and NHS Business Authority in the ongoing claims against the pharmaceutical company, Servier concerning the blood pressure lowering ‘blockbuster’ drug, Perindopril. Jonathan Tickner (Head of Commercial Litigation), Jason Woodland (Partner) and Emma Ruane (Of Counsel) all act. Read more.
Head of International Keith Oliver is delighted to have been invited to be one of the founding members of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators, an independent group of leading international specialists created to expand the body of knowledge on economic crimes and how collectively to confront them. Keith has joined over twenty renowned […]
The Select Committee on the Bribery Act 2010 was appointed on 17 May 2018 to carry out post-legislative scrutiny of the Act, its operation and its enforcement, and to make recommendations to the Government. The committee invited members of the Judiciary, law enforcement, NGOs and the legal profession to provide oral evidence. Neil Swift’s evidence […]
Since 31 January 2018, UK law enforcement has had a number of new powers at its disposal, introduced into the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 by the Criminal Finances Act 2017. These provide UK law enforcement with potentially ground-breaking new powers to freeze and recover the alleged proceeds of crime. Lesser known provisions, which involve […]
Partner Neil Swift considers the different approaches to whistleblowers taken by different enforcement agencies and asks whether more should be done to incentivise and reward UK whistleblowers. Click here for the article. This article was first published in inCOMPLIANCE, the magazine of the International Compliance Association: https://www.int-comp.org
At the Economic Sanctions & Financial Crime Conference on the 14th of November, Partner Anna Bradshaw is speaking on ‘Countering Exterritoriality of US Secondary Sanctions and Jurisdictional Conflicts’ alongside Partner John Smith (Morrison Foerster) former Director of OFAC. They are touching on topics such as overview of conflicting extraterritorial US sanctions, rules and regulations; protection […]
Partner Jasvinder Nakhwal was a part of a panel discussion on 9 November 2018 alongside Robert Driscoll (McGlinchey Stafford) and Professor Laurel Terry (Penn State Dickinson Law) to discuss ‘Lawyers and Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Finance Initiatives’ moderated by Ellyn Rosen (American Bar Association). This conference held by The Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and […]
Maria Cronin and Philip Gardner discuss the recent case of R (on behalf of KBR Inc) v The Serious Fraud Office [2018] EWHC 2368 (Admin) in which the SFO’s decision to serve Section 2 Notices on a foreign company in relation to material held overseas was unsuccessfully challenged before the Administrative Division of the High […]
