Three French NGOs – Oxfam France, Friends of the Earth France and Notre Affaire à Tous – are bringing proceedings in France against BNP Parisbas, one of Europe’s largest financial institutions, in connection with its financing of fossil fuel polluters. The trio is arguing that the bank is failing to comply with its obligations under […]
Head of Business Crime Nick Vamos was interviewed for Legal Business’ Life During Law column. Nick spoke about how he ended up following his mum’s and future wife’s advice to pursue a career as a barrister, how things progressed from there and why he does not believe in planning his career too much. After leaving […]
The government’s long-awaited white paper outlining major reforms to football in England has now been published. As expected, it proposes the introduction of a new independent regulator to ensure the sustainability and resilience of English football as its major recommendation to shake up football governance in this country. Other proposals include: – a new licensing […]
When someone has been arrested and detained by the police on suspicion of a criminal offence, the police have the power to release that person – who is now considered a suspect – pending further enquiries. In doing so, they will need to decide whether to impose any restrictions on the suspect’s ability to abscond, […]
The monthly insolvency statistics for October 2022 (published by the Insolvency Service in November) show that corporate insolvencies have risen 38% from the same month in the previous year and are 32% higher than pre-pandemic. Insolvency practitioners, lawyers and advisers are therefore gearing up for further rises in insolvencies as the economic climate is expected […]
As Lord Reed recognised, the appeal before the Supreme Court on the case of BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana S.A. & Others raised questions of considerable importance for company law. The issue was whether the trigger for the directors’ duty to consider creditors is merely a real risk of – as opposed to a profitability […]
Every year, without fail, the government promises to get tough on financial crime. This time round, the latest proposal involves extending the “failure to prevent” model to make firms criminally liable for failing to prevent economic crimes beyond bribery and tax evasion unless they have adequate procedures in place. The model was first introduced by […]
Anna Bradshaw was interviewed by DW News about the EU’s latest package of sanctions against Russia, discussing why sanctions so far have not had the desired effect of crippling the Russian economy so that it would not be able to afford the war in Ukraine. Anna spoke on the continuing development of so-called ‘smart’ sanctions, […]
The role that whistleblowers play in uncovering wrongdoing and misconduct in the public and private sectors has long been recognised as being essential. As such, is there anything else that could be done to protect and encourage anyone who is considering speaking out? In this article for FT Adviser, Neil Swift discusses what protections are […]
The Quincecare duty, which requires financial institutions not to execute customers’ orders if they have been made aware that these are part of a fraud, has gained prominence recently as upcoming legal challenges threaten to increase banks’ responsibilities in the context of increasingly sophisticated fraud. In this article for The Banker, Paul Johnson and David […]
