In a webinar hosted by Global Legal Group, Keith Oliver discussed the evolving fraud risk landscape, including the UK’s new failure to prevent fraud offence, and considered how organisations can prepare for, respond to and recover from fraud incidents. Keith spoke about the importance of taking early, coordinated action when fraud is suspected, focusing […]
Commercial reality means that, no matter how strong a claim, the claimant is not well advised to pursue it if there is no means of recovering their loss, or more basic still, recouping their costs. As a result, where a potential defendant is impecunious, the claimant may seek to cast their net a bit wider. […]
Peters & Peters has succeeded in obtaining a place on Lot 3 (Litigation and Disputes) of Government Commercial Agency’s (GCA) RM6374 Legal Panel for Public Sector. The appointment enables the firm to provide specialist litigation and disputes support to public sector and third sector organisations across England and Wales. The RM6374 Legal Panel for Public […]
Anna Bradshaw has been quoted in a new report by Karam Shaar Advisory examining the anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions and compliance challenges facing Syrian banks as they seek to reconnect with the international financial system. The report, Beyond Evaluations: Risk Indices and the Challenges Syrian Banks Face Outside FATF, explores how risk assessments, regulatory technology […]
It is not unusual for commercial parties to agree that their disputes should be arbitrated in London, pursuant to English law, even where the parties themselves are foreign and the underlying transaction has little or no connection to England. The Commercial Court’s judgment in State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan & Ors v […]
Fraud unravels all. But whose fraud does it need to be? This is the question examined by the Court of Appeal in Estate of Euan McIntyre Lindsay & Anor v Outlook Finance Ltd & Anor [2026] EWCA Civ 1005. The Court held that, in some circumstances, a judgment may be set aside not only against […]
