In February the Supreme Court handed down judgment in R (on the application of KBR, Inc) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office, in which it unanimously reversed a 2018 High Court ruling on the territorial scope of section 2(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987. Section 2(3) empowers the SFO director to issue a notice […]
NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are a new kind of digital asset that operate on blockchain. Most NFTs run on the Ethereum blockchain but are not themselves Ether. The concept of non-fungibility is important to distinguish their function in that fungible tokens like Bitcoin or Ether can be exchanged like-for-like. Read more
The CPS’s Economic Crime Strategy 2025, the first of its sort, was introduced to combat what the CPS refers to as ‘a serious and growing area of criminality’. The number of fraud and forgery cases dealt with by the CPS has risen by almost a third since 2011. The CPS estimates that there are 800,000 […]
