On 25 May, the European Commission proposed measures to create of EU-wide rules to punish breaches of EU sanctions. This would have the effect of closing the loopholes whereby divergent criminal definitions and penalties across member states can mean that breaches can attract widely different responses from local judicial authorises or even go unpunished. The […]
The UK is said to be taking steps to get actor Kevin Spacey extradited from the U.S. to face sexual assault charges, unless he came back voluntarily. The Guardian reports that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced last week that it had authorized four charges of sexual assault against the actor in respect of attacks […]
On 26 May, Michael O’Kane, Senior Partner at Peters & Peters, was interviewed by the College of Law Australia, alongside Olivia Kung, Partner at Wellington Legal, Ross Dakin, Partner at Peppercorn Recruitment, and Helen Wu, Director, Business and Legal Affairs, Marketing and Advertising Counsel, PlayStation. Michael discussed his career route to Peters & Peters […]
ISO 31030 came out in September 2021 and is the first truly global benchmark for travel risk management, providing a good practice framework. Understanding the standard will help corporate organisations whose employees need to travel to consider the extent to which they are meeting their duty of care to their employees and others in the […]
Peters & Peters Senior Partner Michael O’Kane spoke to The Times following widespread debate about the Serious Fraud Office’s use of outsourcing in major cases, especially over a recent report that the SFO was to outsource the disclosure process in the prosecution of G4S after an eight-year investigation into the private security company. Michael O’Kane […]
