The government has confirmed its intention to bring forward a failure to prevent fraud offence in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, when the latter is debated in the House of Lords. Neil Swift spoke to LexisPSL about the proposal, asking, among others, whether failure to prevent offences, and the underlying policy of making […]
Anna Bradshaw and Alistair Jones were quoted in the September 2022 issue of WorldECR, commenting on a case at Ireland’s High Court involving Cypriot companies wanting to purchase marine vessels that they had leased from a Dublin-registered firm allegedly owned by Russia. Anna told the publication that the case is a good illustration of the […]
Last month, the Law Commission published its proposed reforms to corporate criminal liability. Although the government has focused on economic crime recently, it may be some time before any reforms are implemented and the government will need to decide whether to adopt any of the Commission’s proposals, or proffer their own, as well as any […]
From coping with the explosion of data to the challenge of keeping disputes in the UK post-Brexit, commercial litigators have a full in-tray. Jason Woodland recently took part in a roundtable discussion at which these topics were discussed and was then quoted in the The Law Society Gazette write up. Jason said: “The effect of […]
Nick Vamos, our Head of Business Crime, was quoted extensively in the media following the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel decision on Friday to approve the extradition of Julian Assange to the US. The WikiLeaks founder is wanted in the US for conspiring to hack and then publish classified documents in 2010-11, including in respect […]
Today, the Law Commission published its long-awaited paper on the potential reform options for the laws in England and Wales on corporate criminal liability. The Commission’s approach represents a constructive balance, exploring options for ensuring that companies can be held responsible for wrongdoing while seeking to avoid imposing unreasonable economic, regulatory or legal burdens. […]
Nick Vamos was quoted in the media, including in the Irish Independent, discussing the possibility of Harvey Weinstein being extradited to the UK from the U.S. and what this would entail. Weinstein is facing two charges of indecent assault against a woman in London in 1996. Nick said that the fact that the former Hollywood […]
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 […]
Fraudsters using technology to commit their misdeeds is nothing new, but as technology advances, so do new methods of technological criminality as well as the sophistication of the crimes. The cost of tech crime is also staggering. For example, last year alone, the UK lost more than UK£2.5 billion to fraudsters and cyber criminals, and […]
