Former Head of Extradition at the Crown Prosecution Service, now partner at Peters & Peters Nick Vamos shares his views on Lauri Love’s successful appeal against extradition on health grounds. Nick states the significance of the judgment, “it is the first case in which the Forum Bar has been used successfully to resist extradition.” Nick […]
KNECT365 and CONTRA Trusts in Litigation conference looks at “the pervasive nature of trusts”. Partner, Jonathan Tickner spoke as part of a practical session on Civil Fraud, focused on “identifying and proving a sham trust for the purposes of asset recovery and the practicalities of running fraud litigation and asset recovery.” If you would like […]
Partners Neil Swift and Anna Bradshaw will each chair a day of Infoline’s 4th Annual AML, Financial Crime & Sanctions forum in London. This forum will help benchmark your compliance processes and understand the impact of regulatory developments. As well as chair, both will moderate various sessions throughout the forum. Read the full forum agenda […]
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been criticised by legal experts for their lack of attention to insider dealing cases, LIBOR and other bank rate cases are blamed. Business crime partner, Neil Swift provides his reasons as to why this may be, suggesting that regulators tend to “only pursue cases where the likelihood of conviction […]
Partner Anna Bradshaw is interviewed by the ACAMS MoneyLaundering.com on the vote this week by the House of Lords, defeating proposals that would have conferred wide powers on ministers to create new criminal offences for breaches of sanctions and anti-money laundering legislation. The article, “UK Ministers Lose Parliamentary Support for Unilateral Sanctions Powers”, is available […]
Anna, alongside ACAMS Chapter members from across Europe will discuss relevant developments in AML regulation during 2017 and what can be expected in 2018. This free webinar is directed at Compliance Officers, legal advisors, law enforcement, industry consultants and regulatory representatives and covers the following learning objectives: Obtaining a consolidated understanding of the overall European […]
Peters & Peters is representing a group of investors seeking redress against Scion Films for losses incurred as a result of investments in film tax schemes. Scion promoted a number of tax schemes for films such as Atonement, Eastern Promises and Mr Bean’s Holiday. The proceedings are in addition to, but separate from, the ongoing […]
Political agreement has finally been reached on amendments to the EU’s Fourth Money Laundering Directive. Anna Bradshaw is quoted in a commentary by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS)/MONEYLAUNDERING.COM
The role of the Civil Justice Committee is to keep under review, and to promote improvements in civil litigation, including dispute resolution and to provide guidance to the profession and answer queries. Vlad’s appointment is for three years.”
Hannah Laming and Miranda Ching of Peters & Peters successfully represented an experienced banking professional in an investigation into insider dealing. The individual was accused of committing market abuse by using information passed to him by an alleged insider at another bank to trade successfully in M&A associated securities, realising a benefit in the seven […]
