Corporate Crime weekly highlights—30 October 2025
This week's edition of Corporate Crime weekly highlights includes analysis of a decision overturning the Murphy principle, which held that prosecutions and appeals in criminal cases should be and will, save for exceptional cases, be subject to the criminal costs regime, of joint US-UK sanctions against Cambodia’s Prince Group and its chair Chen Zhi and whether it signals a broader revival of coordinated sanctions enforcement between the two countries, and of the US DOJ‘s new FCPA guidelines focusing enforcement on cases affecting US competitiveness, infrastructure, corrupt intent, or transnational crime. Also included is news of the Renters' Rights Bill receiving Royal Assent, of a consultation response published on environmental permitting exemptions reform suggesting new powers to create, amend and remove exempt facilities that do not require environmental permits, of FSA publishing updated Food Law Codes of Practice introducing a more flexible, risk-based approach to food regulation, and of enforcement action by the HSE, CQC, SEPA and the FCA. All this, and more, in this week’s Corporate Crime highlights.