We are pleased to announce that Anna Bradshaw will be speaking at the FinCrime World Forum webinar taking place on June 22 2021. She will be joining a panel of experts examining how professional services providers can contribute to, and prevent, financial crime. Register here.
Peters & Peters Partner Jasvinder Nakhwal will be speaking at a webinar on June 10 by the Cartel & Criminal Practice Committee of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) Antitrust law section. She will be joining a panel of experienced attorneys as they share how their career paths led them to specialise in the […]
Peters & Peters on 8 June 2021 secured a significant costs award against a would-be private prosecutor in an application in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The judge said this award was proportionate even though he had remarked during the hearing that the total amount claimed in costs was possibly the largest ever made in the […]
Peters & Peters on 8 June 2021 secured a significant costs award against a would-be private prosecutor in an application in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The judge said this award was proportionate even though he had remarked during the hearing that the total amount claimed in costs was possibly the largest ever made in the […]
The U.K government suffered a setback after Judge Finola O’Farrell ruled that a 564,000 pound ($800,000) coronavirus contract was unlawfully awarded to a research firm whose owners were friends of Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser. This judgment comes as the government is currently in the midst of challenging a number of lawsuits which have been […]
We are pleased to announce that Jason Woodland will be speaking at the Business Fraud Update online conference on June 18. This conference will be exploring a range of Business Fraud topics such as tax fraud, remedies available to victims of fraud in the civil courts and conducting a complex AML investigation. Please book your […]
On the question of whether any organisation could be charged with corporate manslaughter, Nick Vamos says that in reality, corporate manslaughter charges are highly unlikely. “The difficulty is that it is a very high legal threshold, and one of the tests which has to be met is that the corporation you are prosecuting has to […]
We are pleased to announce that Jason Woodland will be speaking at the UIA mid-year 2021 Annual Business Law Forum on June 9 2021, on the topic of litigation. The panel of experts will be discussing litigation in the time of COVID, online hearings and the change in procedural rules. Register here.
The introduction of Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) was met with great enthusiasm by the general public and law enforcement agencies, but expectations do not appear to have been met. Anna Bradshaw discusses some reasons why the investigatory power has been relatively sparingly used to date and why it is not necessarily indicative of a problem […]
Eamon and Cécile discuss in Incompliance how the Brexit deal, otherwise known as the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), establishes a new framework in relation to the enforcement and recognition of freezing and confiscation orders between the UK and the EU. Read more. This article first appeared in Incompliance, the magazine of the International […]
