Maria Cronin and Philip Gardner discuss the recent case of R (on behalf of KBR Inc) v The Serious Fraud Office [2018] EWHC 2368 (Admin) in which the SFO’s decision to serve Section 2 Notices on a foreign company in relation to material held overseas was unsuccessfully challenged before the Administrative Division of the High […]
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 […]
Partner Jasvinder Nakhwal was a part of a panel discussion on 9 November 2018 alongside Robert Driscoll (McGlinchey Stafford) and Professor Laurel Terry (Penn State Dickinson Law) to discuss ‘Lawyers and Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Finance Initiatives’ moderated by Ellyn Rosen (American Bar Association). This conference held by The Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and […]
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 […]
At the Economic Sanctions & Financial Crime Conference on the 14th of November, Partner Anna Bradshaw is speaking on ‘Countering Exterritoriality of US Secondary Sanctions and Jurisdictional Conflicts’ alongside Partner John Smith (Morrison Foerster) former Director of OFAC. They are touching on topics such as overview of conflicting extraterritorial US sanctions, rules and regulations; protection […]
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 […]
Partner Neil Swift considers the different approaches to whistleblowers taken by different enforcement agencies and asks whether more should be done to incentivise and reward UK whistleblowers. Click here for the article. This article was first published in inCOMPLIANCE, the magazine of the International Compliance Association: https://www.int-comp.org
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 […]
Since 31 January 2018, UK law enforcement has had a number of new powers at its disposal, introduced into the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 by the Criminal Finances Act 2017. These provide UK law enforcement with potentially ground-breaking new powers to freeze and recover the alleged proceeds of crime. Lesser known provisions, which involve […]
