The U.K government suffered a setback after Judge Finola O’Farrell ruled that a 564,000 pound ($800,000) coronavirus contract was unlawfully awarded to a research firm whose owners were friends of Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser. This judgment comes as the government is currently in the midst of challenging a number of lawsuits which have been […]
We are pleased to announce that Jason Woodland will be speaking at the Business Fraud Update online conference on June 18. This conference will be exploring a range of Business Fraud topics such as tax fraud, remedies available to victims of fraud in the civil courts and conducting a complex AML investigation. Please book your […]
On the question of whether any organisation could be charged with corporate manslaughter, Nick Vamos says that in reality, corporate manslaughter charges are highly unlikely. “The difficulty is that it is a very high legal threshold, and one of the tests which has to be met is that the corporation you are prosecuting has to […]
We are pleased to announce that Jason Woodland will be speaking at the UIA mid-year 2021 Annual Business Law Forum on June 9 2021, on the topic of litigation. The panel of experts will be discussing litigation in the time of COVID, online hearings and the change in procedural rules. Register here.
The introduction of Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) was met with great enthusiasm by the general public and law enforcement agencies, but expectations do not appear to have been met. Anna Bradshaw discusses some reasons why the investigatory power has been relatively sparingly used to date and why it is not necessarily indicative of a problem […]
Eamon and Cécile discuss in Incompliance how the Brexit deal, otherwise known as the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), establishes a new framework in relation to the enforcement and recognition of freezing and confiscation orders between the UK and the EU. Read more. This article first appeared in Incompliance, the magazine of the International […]
Last week, we co-hosted a webinar with QEB Hollis Whiteman and Hickman & Rose on the Serco trial. Neil Swift (who acted for Simon Marshall) and the other defence lawyers explored what led to the collapse of the case. Download and watch here.
Advocate General Gerard Hogan sets out in his Opinion how the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) should respond to a request by a German Court on how to interpret the law blocking European operators from complying with certain US sanctions, concluding that Telekom Deutschland should be made to explain the reasons why […]
Keith Oliver chaired the IBA litigation webinar (one of this Spring’s series in place of the planned live event in Buenos Aires) on Tuesday 11th of May 2021. This highly entertaining and informative session debated several of the reputational and class action litigation challenges arising from corporate scandals and ongoing international crises and featured leading practitioners […]
We are delighted to announce that our partner Anna Bradshaw has been recognised as a ‘Future leader’ in the 2021 edition of Who’s Who Legal (WWL) : Investigations. This is testament to Anna’s wealth of experience in the Investigations space. Read more
