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 […]
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 […]
ISO 31030 was published in September 2021 to complement the general ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard. The ISO standard is the first truly global benchmark for travel risk management and provides a framework of good practice. The White Paper aims to help corporates understand the ISO’s potential implications for an employer’s travel security obligations and […]
As Putin escalates, Michael O’Kane and Anna Bradshaw are on air explaining how sanctions work and what could happen next. LBC – 45:20 BBC Radio 5 – 17:28 BBC Radio Kent – 3:21:05 BBC Radio Humberside – 2:17:40
Our Head of Fraud and Commercial Disputes Jonathan Tickner has been quoted in the pharma and legal press on Monday’s High Court ruling against Servier’s attempt to limit damages for infringement of competition law in the sale and supply a blood pressure drug. Jonathan, who is acting for the Secretary of State for Health […]
Just before Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Michael O’Kane engages in a panel discussion about the impact of western sanctions on Russia.
In the latest twist to the Covid loans saga, MPs on the public accounts committee have damned HM Revenue & Customs for “ignorance and inaction” over the £4billion of fraud effectively “written off”. Fraudulent shell companies registered in the UK are alleged to be many of the recipients of these loans. Read […]
Sanctions expert and RUSI (Royal United Services Institute) Associate Fellow, Anna Bradshaw discusses the role sanctions play, the wider challenges related to sanctions and their use, and where the future of sanctions lie in the context of the current Russia-Ukraine crisis. Listen here.
Michael O’Kane says Kremlin-linked oligarchs have had time to get their liquid assets out of the US, UK, and Europe to somewhere safer. “The sanctions come very late, and many of them will have taken steps to protect themselves”. Read more.
