Peters & Peters are very proud to learn that the City of London Law Society has presented our former Senior Partner, Monty Raphael QC (hons), with a lifetime achievement award at last night’s British Legal Awards 2020. This recognises Monty’s vision in creating a white collar crime specialism in the firm and then more widely […]
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The increased use of sanctions by international powers has created long lists of designated parties who can quickly find themselves trapped by their listing. Dr. Anna Bradshaw, Barbara Linney and Collmann Griffin examine the differing methods for challenging a listing under the UN, US, EU and developing post-Brexit UK regimes and the strategies offering the […]
The High Court decision in PJSC Tatneft v Bogolyubov & Ors confirms that communications with foreign lawyers (in particular in-house legal teams) are subject to legal advice professional privilege, provided that the individuals in question are conducting themselves in the capacity or function of a lawyer. But it also held that foreign lawyers need not […]
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Our client, the UK’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, roundly defeated pharmaceutical company Servier Laboratories in the Supreme Court. The company had tried unsuccessfully to rely on a previous EU court ruling to prevent court proceedings going forward in London, centred on the Secretary of State’s allegations that Servier blocked generic competition […]
Peters & Peters took to the skies in a charity wing-walk on Sunday 1 September 2019. Keith Oliver, William Green, Caroline Mitchell, Nicky Platten, Colin Ingrams and Josephina Kern took turns to fly at speeds of up to 120mph while strapped to the top of a biplane. They variously described the experience as fantastic, exhilarating, […]
Rachel Cook, a Tax investigations expert at P&P, will be presenting on corporate criminal offence ‘Investigations for failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion’ at the half-day Tax Investigations online conference on Tuesday 24 November 2020. This half-day conference will cover a key range of important and topical Tax Investigation issues which will be […]
In April, Lisa Osofsky, Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), announced plans to introduce a US-style informant scheme in the UK, sparking fervent debate over the use of undercover sources in white-collar crime investigations. Although Osofsky has since downplayed the proposals, informants could help the agency to overcome intensifying pressure to increase its success […]
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) grants individuals the privilege against self-incrimination under the right to a fair trial enshrined in Article 6. But the waters become a bit muddy with regard to the use of compulsory powers requiring the production of pre-existing documents. Should individuals be compelled to hand over evidence that potentially […]
