Maria Cronin, financial crime partner at Peters & Peters, described the judge’s verdict on the SFO’s case as ‘extremely concerning’. She added: ‘The fact that this case was thrown out on the basis that there was no evidence against the defendants, raises serious questions about how and why the SFO came to prosecute this case […]
Our senior partner Michael O’Kane will be speaking at a Volterra Fietta webinar on 25 March 2021 at 13:00 GMT. The panel will discuss the global human rights sanctions regime adopted by the Council of the EU on 7 December 2020, and the UK’s emerging autonomous human rights sanctions regime. Register here.
UWOs are very effective in assisting the authorities to discover the source of income used to acquire property or to identify an ultimate beneficial owner, especially those in offshore structures according to P&P expert Rachel Cook. She says, “whatever their limits, for those faced with UWOs, it will have been a worrying, time-consuming and expensive […]
The Covid-19 crisis has created a fertile environment for corruption and fraud. At the outset, concerns centred on the risks posed by fraudsters seeking to profit from the financial shock of the pandemic. Those fears proved well founded – in March 2020, fraud reports rose by 400%. Over time, concern spread to suspected abuse of […]
Maria Cronin, a partner at law firm Peters & Peters, commented that The Director of the SFO will need to carefully consider what went wrong, why the case was ever prosecuted, and how the agency addresses these serious failings in the future. Read more.
Nick Vamos, the former Head of Extradition at the CPS and now a partner at specialist business crime law firm Peters & Peters, said the decision was a coup for India. “This is a hugely significant judgment for the Indian Government,” he said. “It is only the second time that a UK court has ordered […]
Partner Anna Bradshaw will be speaking on Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) in the context of economic sanctions violations at a roundtable with academics and practitioners hosted by the University of Coventry. Read more.
P&P lawyers Philip Gardner and Stephanie Lloyd have co-authored an article in Litigation Futures about the contrasting approaches in litigation and arbitration to identifying dispute funders. They review recent changes to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Arbitration Rules and the different approaches taken to disputes funding in major arbitral centres and the English Court. Read […]
In KBR Inc, R (On the Application Of) v The Director of the Serious Fraud Office the High Court struck a “careful balance” between the SFO’s powers to compel the production of overseas material and a company’s “sufficient connection” to the UK. The introduction of Overseas Production Orders in 2019 is likely to sweep this […]
Peters & Peters have successfully secured the deletion of a high-profile French criminal conviction relating to our client from the Police National Computer (PNC) and the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS), in a notable departure from UK criminal record retention policies. The law on removing convictions in the UK is often complex, and […]
