On May 12, ClientEarth, the environmental law charity, saw its claim against the directors of Shell plc dismissed by the UK High Court. The claim has been touted as a “world-first lawsuit”: a derivative action against directors of a listed company for failing to manage climate-change risks that was backed by institutional investors. The claim […]
Established 35 years ago in the case of Quincecare v Barclays Bank, the Quincecare duty requires, in short, that banks and other financial institutions refrain from executing their customers’ orders if they are put on notice that those orders are part of a fraud on the customers. Since then, the Quincecare duty mostly spent its […]
Senior Partner Michael O’Kane and Maya Lester KC, of Brick Court Chambers, hosted a discussion on present and potential future sanctions on China on 2 May 2023. They examined the political context in which sanctions have been imposed on China, and in what context additional restrictions may be imposed in the future. The discussion covered what […]
According to recent research by financial claims management company Refundee, scams involving cryptocurrency are on the rise. Charlotte Tregunna spoke to City A.M. about the rise in crypto fraud, commenting that this was “inevitable”, since scams are prevalent in traditional finance. The types of scams invented by scammers are also increasingly imaginative, with new and […]
UPDATE: The venue for this event has changed and is now The Ivy Club (see address below). We are co-hosting a panel with Brick Court Chambers as part of LIDW23. Reflecting a continuing growth of international arbitration and the pro-arbitration stance of the English courts on the one hand and the sophistication of cross-border fraud […]
The partners of Peters & Peters are very pleased to announce the appointment of Charlotte Tregunna and Vlad Meerovich to the partnership as of 1 May 2023. Charlotte Tregunna joined Peters & Peters in 2010. She is very widely known in the field of business crime and investigations, and has an exceptional reputation for acting […]
