Access Aspiration – Peters & Peters Insight day
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 […]
Partner Jason Woodland discuss the impact of Brexit on tackling fraud across Europe in Euro news
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 […]
Partner Anna Bradshaw quoted in a Financial Times special report on companies caught in EU-US sanctions crossfire
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
Partner Anna Bradshaw quoted by The Wall Street Journal on the impact of Brexit on sanctions
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
Partner Anna Bradshaw is quoted by CNSNews.com on the proposed enforcement of UN sanctions against Libya
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
Claim discontinued against Peters & Peters’ client in complex, multi-party proceedings
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 secures deletion of all data on INTERPOL systems for two clients
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 […]
Partner Anna Bradshaw is interviewed by Channel 5 news on US calls for Prince Andrew’s cooperation
Partner Anna Bradshaw speaks to Channel 5 news about the factors that are relevant to decisions to cooperate with overseas investigations, following criticisms of Prince Andrew’s lack of cooperation by the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and lawyers representing civil plaintiffs in US litigation. Listen from 1:40
Partner Nick Vamos is quoted extensively in The Washington post on the Harry Dunn case
The U.S government has been condemned for its refusal to extradite an American woman who has been charged in the death of the British teenager Harry Dunn. Foreign secretary Dominic Raab says the British government “would have acted differently if this has been a U.K diplomat serving in the U.S”. Partner Nick Vamos says that […]