On 19 April 2021, a district judge of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court issued a ruling quashing a summons which had been granted against our client for, allegedly, attempting to pervert the course of public justice. These allegations arose in the context of ongoing complex civil proceedings in the English High Court. Following robust submissions […]
We are delighted to announce that Cécile Nicod will be speaking at the first session of a series of webinars organised by the UIA (International Association of Lawyers) Business and Human Rights Committee, on 28 April 2021. This first session will provide an overview of legislation enacted in the UK, France and the United States […]
For the financial services industry, remote working meant that financial institutions suddenly had to adapt their oversight systems, and ensure that market abuse, anti-fraud, data privacy and conduct regulations were all adhered to. Neil Swift says that the problems faced by companies must not be underestimated. He adds, the priority has to be ensuring that […]
We are very pleased to announce that Peters & Peters has donated laptops worth £90,000 to students at two inner London schools, Brampton Manor Academy in Newham and Lilian Baylis Technology in Kennington, working with social mobility charity Access Aspiration. This is the latest in a series of steps we’ve taken to support these schools, […]
In February the Supreme Court handed down judgment in R (on the application of KBR, Inc) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office, in which it unanimously reversed a 2018 High Court ruling on the territorial scope of section 2(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987. Section 2(3) empowers the SFO director to issue a notice […]
NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are a new kind of digital asset that operate on blockchain. Most NFTs run on the Ethereum blockchain but are not themselves Ether. The concept of non-fungibility is important to distinguish their function in that fungible tokens like Bitcoin or Ether can be exchanged like-for-like. Read more
The CPS’s Economic Crime Strategy 2025, the first of its sort, was introduced to combat what the CPS refers to as ‘a serious and growing area of criminality’. The number of fraud and forgery cases dealt with by the CPS has risen by almost a third since 2011. The CPS estimates that there are 800,000 […]
“The strange thing about this current economic climate is that no one knows if we will go into a recession or not”, says Keith Oliver. “The last recession followed a strong bull market, but this time around it’s different. There is pent-up demand and lots of cheap assets. If we do see more fraud come […]
We are delighted to announce that Keith Oliver and Amalia Neenan have authored a chapter in the latest CDR Essential Intelligence – Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery 2021 publication. Keith also served as the Contributing Editor for the 2021 edition. Due to the worldwide economic downturn in the wake of Covid-19, the threat of fraud […]
We are excited to announce that sanctions expert Anna Bradshaw has been appointed by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) as an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS) programme. Anna will be using her sanctions expertise to assist with CFCS research on the design and implementation of sanctions by […]
