Our Business Crime Department Associate, Dr Debbie Sayers, was delighted to be invited to speak at two key children’s international coaching events over the last week. Debbie has a PhD in Human Rights Law and, in addition to being a solicitor, she is an experienced youth football coach and recognised leader in the field of […]
Following detailed and lengthy submissions from Peters and Peters over a period of months, the Commission for Control of INTERPOL’s Files, at its 117th session, has quashed a Red Notice issued at the request of the United Arab Emirates against our client, a high-profile businessperson involved in a complex, long-running, multimillion-pound commercial dispute. INTERPOL agreed […]
Peters & Peters on 8 June 2021 secured a significant costs award against a would-be private prosecutor in an application in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The judge said this award was proportionate even though he had remarked during the hearing that the total amount claimed in costs was possibly the largest ever made in the […]
Keith Oliver chaired the IBA litigation webinar (one of this Spring’s series in place of the planned live event in Buenos Aires) on Tuesday 11th of May 2021. This highly entertaining and informative session debated several of the reputational and class action litigation challenges arising from corporate scandals and ongoing international crises and featured leading practitioners […]
We are delighted to announce that our partner Anna Bradshaw has been recognised as a ‘Future leader’ in the 2021 edition of Who’s Who Legal (WWL) : Investigations. This is testament to Anna’s wealth of experience in the Investigations space. Read more
We act on behalf of His Excellency Kyaw Z Minn, Myanmar’s UK Ambassador. His Excellency does not and will not recognise those responsible for the internationally condemned military coup in Myanmar as the legitimate Government of Myanmar. It is His Excellency’s view that those purporting to demand the residence (which is legally owned by the […]
On 19 April 2021, a district judge of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court issued a ruling quashing a summons which had been granted against our client for, allegedly, attempting to pervert the course of public justice. These allegations arose in the context of ongoing complex civil proceedings in the English High Court. Following robust submissions made […]
We are very pleased to announce that Peters & Peters has donated laptops worth £90,000 to students at two inner London schools, Brampton Manor Academy in Newham and Lilian Baylis Technology in Kennington, working with social mobility charity Access Aspiration. This is the latest in a series of steps we’ve taken to support these schools, […]
We are excited to announce that sanctions expert Anna Bradshaw has been appointed by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) as an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS) programme. Anna will be using her sanctions expertise to assist with CFCS research on the design and implementation of sanctions by […]
Peters & Peters have successfully secured the deletion of a high-profile French criminal conviction relating to our client from the Police National Computer (PNC) and the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS), in a notable departure from UK criminal record retention policies. The law on removing convictions in the UK is often complex, and […]
