Senior partner Michael O’Kane comments on the Foreign Affairs Committee report on the future of the UK sanctions policy in LexisNexis. Read here
Former Head of Extradition at the Crown Prosecution Service, now partner at Peters & Peters Nick Vamos shares his views on Lauri Love’s successful appeal against extradition on health grounds. Nick states the significance of the judgment, “it is the first case in which the Forum Bar has been used successfully to resist extradition.” Nick […]
Peters & Peters acts for the Republic of Mozambique in US$2 billion Commercial Court proceedings against Credit Suisse, Abu Dhabi-based shipbuilder Privinvest, its CEO Iskandar Safa and certain former Credit Suisse employees, arising from what the Republic alleges is a massive fraud known as the “hidden debts” scandal. The Republic is also a […]
Secretary of State for Health & Social Care and the NHS Business Services Authority v Servier Laboratories Ltd and Others On 6 November 2020 the Supreme Court confirmed that context is everything when applying findings of the European Courts in separate proceedings. The Secretary of State for Health & Social Care and the NHS Business […]
Should UK law enforcement authorities suspect that money is derived from, or will be used for, criminal activities, they have a potentially devastating tool at their disposal : Account Freezing and Forfeiture Orders (“AFFOs”). Whilst AFFOs have received far less media attention than Unexplained Wealth Orders (“UWOs”), they are a serious cause for concern. Only […]
Peters & Peters have partnered with one of the fund’s major charities, Access Aspiration, volunteering in non-selective state schools with disadvantaged students aged 16-18 to give them the confidence, employability skills and aspirations for a successful future.
Over the last 18 months, the UK has seen a number of significant changes in the area of international cooperation in financial crime matters, most notably through the widening of unexplained wealth order (UWO) and account freezing order (AFO) regimes, through an amendment made to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and the introduction of […]
Thursday 11 July 2019 at 6.30pm followed by drinks Museum of London Terrace Gallery, 150 London Wall, EC2Y 5HN Jointly presented by Brick Court Chambers and Peters & Peters, this seminar will focus on the difficult issues which arise when serious allegations of fraud and corruption are made in the context of international commercial arbitrations, […]
The Court of Appeal has today handed down judgment in Secretary of State for Health and others v Servier Laboratories [2019] EWCA Civ 1096. The Court of Appeal dismissed Servier’s appeal against Roth J’s decision that findings of fact made by the General Court in its judgment in Servier v Commission Case T-691/14 handed down on 12 December 2018 […]
Peters & Peters have succeeded in having a Red Notice deleted from INTERPOL in respect of a director of a UK and UAE-incorporated money services business with international operations. The Red Notice had been circulated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after a flawed and inadequate investigation led the UAE authorities to charge our client […]
