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Corporate Crime analysis: The Supreme Court, in R (Youssef) v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, has rejected a...
This week's edition of Corporate Crime weekly highlights includes analysis of the purpose and impact of the Economic Crime (Anti-Money Laundering)...
Corporate Crime analysis: Neil Swift, partner, and James Tyler, associate, of Peters&Peters consider the Economic Crime (Anti-Money Laundering) Levy...
Financial Services analysis: Steve Smith, partner, Ruth Paley, legal director, and Chris Stott, principal associate, of Eversheds Sutherland, analyse...
Law360, London: HM Treasury told an influential group of MPs on 29 November 2021 that a proposed programme will be a step toward putting an end to...
Coronavirus (COVID-19)—managing the workplace from 19 July 2021UPDATE (3/12/21): The Prime Minister announced on 27 November 2021 new, temporary...
Confiscation orders—to vary or appealWho can apply to vary a confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002?A defendant, prosecutor, or an...
DeepfakesThis Practice Note considers the following legal issues, technical information and applications of deepfakes:•What is a deepfake?•How...
Corporate crime horizon scanner—September 2021 and beyondThis Practice Note provides a summary of the key legal developments that are expected to...
Directive 2014/57/EU on criminal sanctions for market abuseBackgroundThe Market Abuse Directive 2003/6/EC (OJ L 96, 12.4.2003, p. 16) (MAD) was...
Financial sanctions breach response form and action plan1General informationDate[Insert date]Name of person completing this response form and action...
Sanctions breach—panic sheet1Consider seeking external adviceGiven the complicated nature of most sanctions regimes, the potential for offences to...
Financial sanctions breach report formPlease supply as much information as possible about this suspected breach.If you require any help to complete...
Judicial review—letter before claim[Insert the name and address of the proposed defendant]Dear [insert organisation name]Letter before claim in...
Anti-slavery and human trafficking statement1: Opening statement from senior management[Name of organisation] is committed to preventing acts of...
Securities, sureties and other conditions of bailConditions of bailA defendant granted bail by the court may be required to comply with conditions of...
Witness intimidationIntimidation of witnesses and jurorsIntimidation of witnesses and/or jurors is an offence under section 51 of the Criminal Justice...
Possession of an offensive weaponThe offence of possession of an offensive weaponThe offence of having an offensive weapon in a public place can be...
Discretionary life sentencesThis Practice Note reflects the procedural code for sentencing offenders in England and Wales (Sentencing Code) that...
Criminal Procedure Rules (CrimPR)—update October 2020 [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. This Practice...
Search of premises without a warrantThe powers of the police to enter and search premises are both extensive and various. The police may search...
Commencing criminal proceedings—written charge and requisition or single justice procedure noticeAll criminal cases begin in the magistrates' court...
Obtaining third-party disclosure in criminal proceedingsThe prosecution’s duty of disclosure in criminal proceedings is governed by the Criminal...
Intoxication and mistakeIntoxicationGeneral defences are those which arise from specific characteristics of the defendant or the circumstances of the...
Human trafficking offencesWhat is human trafficking?The accepted definition is found in the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in...
European Investigation Orders (EIOs)—process [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not being maintained. Following the end...
Instructing experts in criminal proceedingsPart 19 of the Criminal Procedure Rules 2020, SI 2020/759 (CrimPR) sets out the requirements for...
Enforcement of confiscation ordersStatus of a confiscation orderTechnically, a confiscation order is an order to pay a sum of money to the state;...
Admissibility of hearsay in criminal proceedings—the interests of justice gatewayThe statutory conditionsHearsay evidence may be admitted under one or...
Prisoner categorisationCategorisation is the process by which a prisoner’s security category is determined. This affects the type of prison in which...
Tainted gifts in confiscation proceedingsTainted giftsA tainted gift is a category of asset that is added to the value of the property calculated to...
If an employer does not terminate the employment contract but commits a fundamental, actual or anticipatory breach of it, entitling the employee to resign, and the employee, without delaying too long, resigns in response to that breach, that resignation may amount to a constructive dismissal.
An agreed rate of damages paid by the contractor to the employer for a particular breach of contract—most commonly delay to completion of the works (usually a rate per day or week of delay). Other types of LADs include performance LADs and target internal area LADs.
This arises where a creditor's right to repayment is postponed to the rights of other creditors. This can be achieved by contractual arrangements or by structuring lending at different levels within a group of companies.
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