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Corporate Crime weekly highlights—27 March 2025

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Published on: 27 March 2025

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This week's edition of Corporate Crime weekly highlights includes analysis of the new law relating to unfair commercial practices under DMCCA 2024 coming into effect on 6 April 2025, of the impact that the UK’s court backlog crisis may have on health and safety enforcement and of the FCA’s roll back on its controversial proposal to announce enforcement investigations. Also included is news of the key criminal justice announcements from the Spring Statement 2025, of the publication of Jonathan Fisher KC’s independent review of disclosure and fraud offences report, of the SFO’s newly formed International Anti-Corruption Prosecutorial Taskforce to enhance cross-border cooperation and of OFSI’s annual review which reveals that £25bn of Russian assets have been frozen since February 2022. All this, and more, in this week’s Corporate Crime highlights.

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