Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder will begin a four-week extradition hearing in London today to determine whether he will he extradited to the U.S, where he faces trial for releasing classified documents. The case will start days after Assange’s lawyers alleged that President Donald Trump instructed a former congressman to offer their client a pardon if […]
After 8 years, a deal has finally been reached in Airbus’ bribery and corruption investigation. It came via a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) between Airbus and UK, US and French regulators last month. But, looking beyond its substantial €3.6 billion price tag, what does it mean for multinational firms looking to globally settle disputes? Read […]
Yesterday, we hosted an Insight day in support of Access Aspiration. Access Aspiration is a charity organisation that aims to increase social mobility by providing Londoners from disadvantaged backgrounds (aged 16-18) with the confidence, skills and networks they need to progress to university and/or secure employment. We’ve previously supported the charity by volunteering in schools in […]
The most recent Crime Survey of England and Wales estimated that there were 3.8 million incidents of fraud between March 2018 to March 2019, an increase of 17% from the previous year. Why, then, did prosecutions for white-collar crime fall to a five-year low, according to a recent study by Thomson Reuters? The answer is […]
A Financial Times Special Report on sanctions includes quotes by Partner Anna Bradshaw on the difficulties arising for companies as a result of the US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran and the European Union’s retaliatory blocking regulation. Read more
In an analysis by The Wall Street Journal into how Brexit might result in more complexity for sanctions compliance, Partner Anna Bradshaw comments on the ‘Magnitsky sanctions’ expected to be introduced imminently in the UK. Read more
Following the Berlin conference on Libya, attention has been focused on how to enforce breaches of the UN’s sanctions. Partner Anna Bradshaw is quoted by CNSNews.com commenting on proposals to sanction violators of the UN’s arms embargo. Read more
In a case in the Queen’s Bench Division advanced by the Claimant against 11 different defendants, with a total value exceeding US$11 million, Peters & Peters secured the discontinuance of the claim against our client, the ninth defendant. The Claimant has obtained judgement against all other defendants. Peters & Peters however put forward a robust […]
Peters & Peters has secured the deletion of all data relating to two Russian clients from INTERPOL’s systems. Our clients are the subject of politically motivated criminal proceedings in the Russian Federation, as a result of which the Russian authorities issued a diffusion for their arrest and extradition. Anticipating that the Russian authorities would take […]
