Peters & Peters invite you to a breakfast seminar on the latest developments in economic sanctions on Tuesday 6 November 2018 in London – the day after full re-imposition of US secondary sanctions on Iran. Anna Bradshaw will lead the conversation with sanctions and white collar crime practitioners including speakers Barbara Linney of Miller & […]
Partner Anna Bradshaw comments on the scope of diplomatic immunity for criminal offences in connection with the expulsion from the Netherlands of Russian operatives accused of hacking the headquarters of the international chemical weapons watchdog in the Hague. Read more.
Partner Neil Swift will be chairing a panel on emergency issues, including the situation in Poland and Turkey and the recent arrest of a lawyer in Moldova. Read more.
The EU’s proposal for a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) as an alternative payment system to support EU businesses trading with Iran were announced on 26 September. Partner Anna Bradshaw discusses how it might operate in practice. Read more.
Keith Oliver will be leading the discussion on latest developments in the tech sector, and cover topics such as data privacy, cybersecurity and fraud prevention in a data sharing economy, the rise of cryptocurrencies, quantum computing and biometric data litigation. Read more.
Partner Anna Bradshaw is giving an outlook on economic sanctions at Bureau van Dijk’s Compliance, Financial Crime and Due Diligence Forum on 27th September 2018. Read more.
Partner Anna Bradshaw will be giving an insight into potential EU blocking legislation and discussing what you need to know about compliance risks for both EU and non-EU organisations on 26th September 2018. Read more. Please contact Anna directly for any questions on this topic.
Associate Peter FitzGerald has been appointed Treasurer of the Criminal Bar Association, the representative body for the Criminal Bar in England and Wales. Read more.
Following his well-reported decision not to extradite the hacker Lauri Love to the US, in the recent case of Scott v USA the Lord Chief Justice took the Forum Bar into surprising new territory. Stuart Scott’s extradition to the USA for wire fraud was barred by reason of forum in circumstances when no UK prosecution […]
Fraud is on the rise, with the total value of reported fraud in the UK hitting the £2 billion mark according to recent research, representing a 500% increase over the last 15 years. Read more
