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Corporate Crime & Compliance UK
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June 25, 2025
Steptoe Chastised For Breaching Russian Sanctions
The solicitors' regulator has rebuked the U.K. arm of Steptoe International after it breached the terms of its license to act for two clients under the Russian sanctions regime.
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June 25, 2025
Funeral Director In Court Charged With Fraud, Theft
A funeral director appeared at an English criminal court on Wednesday charged with fraud, theft and burial offenses following a police investigation into his business.
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June 24, 2025
Irwin Mitchell Can't Ax Pension Fraud Negligence Claim
A London court on Tuesday denied Irwin Mitchell's bid to scrap a professional negligence suit against a firm it merged with in 2015, but ruled Irwin Mitchell itself is not liable for the advice given to a pensioner in the wake of alleged fraud.
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June 24, 2025
Gov't Eyes Clearer AML Rules Under Industrial Strategy
The U.K. government has laid out plans to introduce "clearer and more proportionate" money laundering regulations in broader plans to boost growth as it dubbed the country's legal sector one of the key drivers.
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June 24, 2025
CMA Outlines Potential Fixes For Google Search In UK
Britain's competition authority on Tuesday proposed applying the country's new digital markets regime to Google's search service and said it is considering potential interventions, including requiring choice screens and setting rules for search rankings.
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June 24, 2025
Solicitor Denies Inducing Trust To Invest £5.8m In His Firm
A solicitor has denied fraudulently inducing a family trust into investing £5.75 million ($7.84 million) into a company he part owned that became insolvent, arguing the trust made its own assessment to become involved in the "low risk" project.
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June 24, 2025
Ephgrave Says SFO And DOJ 'Back In Business'
The director of the Serious Fraud Office said Tuesday that the agency is "back in business" with the U.S. Department of Justice following a policy shift in how the American prosecutor approaches enforcing international bribery and corruption laws.
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June 24, 2025
Commercial Fraud Claims Shift To King's Bench, Report Finds
The King's Bench Division of the High Court, responsible for a broad range of civil matters, has overtaken the specialist Commercial Court as the most popular place to bring commercial fraud cases in England and Wales, according to trend analysis published Tuesday.
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June 24, 2025
Liverpool Conveyancing Firm Shuttered Over Client Accounts
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Tuesday that it has shut down a law firm in Liverpool after finding that the firm and its managers failed to comply with rules governing the handling of client money.
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June 24, 2025
Law Firm Partner Denies Ignoring Signs Of £7M Client Fraud
A partner at Portner Law denied dishonestly allowing use of the firm's account to launder money, telling a London trial that he did not register any red flags with a client who was involved in a £7 million ($9.5 million) fraud.
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June 23, 2025
IBM Trims UK Whistleblower's Claim Of Mistreatment
An employment tribunal has ruled that a staffer at IBM U.K. cannot sue its parent company because her work as part of a global team did not make it her secondary employer.
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June 23, 2025
Trafigura Beats Dubai Bank Unit's 'Cynical' $21M Fraud Case
Trafigura on Monday defeated a claim by a subsidiary of Dubai's Rasmala Investment Bank alleging that the commodities trader tricked it into providing $21 million to pay off another company's debts, with a London court ruling the trader was not part of the deception.
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June 23, 2025
UK Payroll Tax Revenue Continues Rising, HMRC Says
The U.K.'s receipts from income and payroll taxes increased to £84.6 billion ($114.4 billion) in April and May, up by £6.1 billion compared with the same period last year, according to data from HM Revenue & Customs.
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June 23, 2025
Staffer Can't Ax Amazon's Defense To Russia Tech Sale Claim
A former Amazon employee on Monday lost his bid to strike out the tech giant's defense to his claims that he was fired for blowing the whistle on alleged sales of its facial recognition technology to Russia.
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June 23, 2025
Investors Say Hargreaves Ignored Woodford Fund's Problems
Thousands of investors who lost out when Neil Woodford's fund collapsed in 2019 have sued asset manager Hargeaves Lansdown, saying the firm kept the fund on its prestigious Wealth List long after it should have known it was headed for administration.
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June 23, 2025
AI-Driven Fake Evidence Could 'Play Havoc' In Legal Disputes
A recent High Court judgment exposed how nonexistent artificial intelligence-generated citations had been used in legal arguments — but experts say this could be the tip of the iceberg for increasingly sophisticated fake evidence making its way into disputes.
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June 20, 2025
Gen Z Less Likely To Blow The Whistle At Work, Study Shows
Gen Z is the least likely age group to blow the whistle to an employer over workplace wrongdoing like health and safety breaches, fraud, bullying or harassment, according to research published Monday.
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June 20, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Pogust Goodhead face legal action from mining giant BHP Group, Trainline bring a procurement claim against the Department for Transport, Sworders auction house sue Conservative peer Patricia Rawlings, and Nokia hit with a patents claim by Hisense. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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June 20, 2025
Denmark To Focus On Carbon Tax, Transparency As EU Chair
Denmark will prioritize initiatives including carbon taxation, fiscal transparency and measures to fight tax avoidance when it assumes the presidency of the European Union in July, the country's government said.
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June 20, 2025
Digital Nomad Co. Seeks Annulment Of EU VAT Rules
An online short-term rentals company said it's challenging the Council of the European Union in the bloc's top court in a bid to overhaul deemed supplier rules for value-added tax.
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June 20, 2025
Energy Data Co. Can't Shut Off Info Supply To Rival
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has blocked an energy data supplier from suspending its services to a competitor following an allegation that the move is an abuse of its de facto monopoly over U.K. meter usage data.
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June 20, 2025
FCA's Crypto Ban Reversal Unleashes Consumer Harm Risk
The Financial Conduct Authority's proposed reversal of its ban on crypto exchange-traded notes for retail investors has paved the way for immeasurable consumer harm, U.K. and U.S. lawyers have warned.
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June 20, 2025
BHP Sues Claimant Lawyers Amid £36B Dam Disaster Trial
BHP is suing law firm Pogust Goodhead, which is representing hundreds of thousands of individuals, municipalities and businesses in a £36 billion ($48.5 billion) claim against the Australian mining giant over a dam disaster in Brazil that killed 19 people, according to court records.
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June 20, 2025
EU Body Issues Warning On Anti-Greenwashing Regulation
The European Union's markets regulator warned Friday that national authorities across the economic bloc will approach enforcement of anti-greenwashing reporting standards in different ways in an online statement.
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June 20, 2025
Shell Can Be Liable Over Oil Spill But 'Legal Barriers' Remain
Shell can be held liable for damages caused by pollution from illegal refining of stolen oil from its pipelines — but the Nigerian communities suing the energy giant face "significant legal barriers" to succeed at trial, a London judge ruled Friday.
Expert Analysis
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Rising To The Task Of Online Safety Act Compliance
The arrival of the Online Safety Act’s deadlines for all in-scope services and children’s access in March and April, enabling the Office of Communications to begin enforcing safety duties regarding illegal content, presents formidable compliance challenges for affected businesses, says Louisa Chambers at Travers Smith.
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Google Win Illustrates Hurdles To Mass Data Privacy Claims
The Court of Appeal's December decision in Prismall v. Google, holding each claimant in a mass data privacy suit must demonstrate an individualized and sufficiently serious injury, demonstrates the difficulty of using representative action to collect damages for misused private information, say lawyers at Seladore Legal.
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What To Know About FCA's UK Listing Rules Proposal
A recent consultation paper from the Financial Conduct Authority aims to streamline the securities-listing process for U.K.-regulated markets, including by allowing issuers to submit a single application for all securities of the same class, and aligning the disclosure standards for low-denomination and wholesale bonds, say lawyers at Debevoise.
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Opinion
UK Gov't Needs To Take Action To Support Whistleblowing Bill
With a proposed Office of the Whistleblower Bill making its way through the U.K. Parliament, whistleblowing is starting to receive the attention it deserves, but the key to unlocking real change is for the government to take ownership of reform proposals and appoint an overarching whistleblowing champion, says Baroness Susan Kramer at the House of Lords.
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Issues To Watch At ABA's Antitrust Spring Meeting
Attorneys at Freshfields consider the future of antitrust law and competition enforcement amid agency leadership changes and other emerging developments likely to dominate discussion at the American Bar Association's Antitrust Spring Meeting this week.
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New UK Short Selling Rules Diverge From EU Regs
Although forthcoming changes to the U.K.’s short selling regulatory regime represent a welcome relaxation of restrictions and simplification of reporting processes, participants active in both the U.K. and EU markets will need to ensure compliance with two quite different sets of rules, says Ezra Zahabi at Akin.
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How New EU Product Liability Directive Will Affect Tech And AI
While the European Union’s new defective product liability directive, effective from December 2026, primarily provides clarifications rather than significant changes, it reflects the EU's commitment to addressing consumer protection and accountability challenges presented by the digital economy and artificial intelligence, say lawyers at Latham.
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What Latest FCA Portfolio Letter Means For Payments Firms
Charlotte Hill at Charles Russell discusses the Financial Conduct Authority’s recent portfolio letter to CEOs of payments firms, outlining the regulator’s expectations, and the steps that these companies may now need to take to ensure compliance and operational effectiveness.
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ECB Guide Targets Harmonized Cyber Testing Approach
The European Central Bank’s recently updated guidance for testing organizational resilience against sophisticated cyberattacks is a significant step forward, highlighting the importance of a unified approach to financial sector cybersecurity and alignment with Digital Operational Resilience Act requirements, say Simon Onyons and Nebu Varghese at FTI Consulting.
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Court Backlog Could Alter Work Safety Enforcement Priorities
While criminal prosecution remains the default course of action following the most serious workplace accidents, a record backlog of cases in the crown courts in England and Wales and safety regulators’ recognition of the need for change may allow for a more discerning approach, say lawyers at BCL Solicitors.
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New CMA Powers Will Change Consumer Protection Regime
The Competition and Markets Authority’s imminent broadened powers to impose penalties on organizations for unethical or misleading practices are likely to transform the U.K.’s consumer protection regime, and may lead to a rise in private litigation and increased regulatory scrutiny, say lawyers at Morgan Lewis.
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Opinion
Prospects For New Fraud Prevention Prosecution Look Slim
With the Labour Party's inherited patchwork of Conservative Party corporate crime legislation for preventing fraud and corruption, the forthcoming Economic Crime Act’s failure to prevent fraud offense is unlikely to be successful in assisting prosecutors bring companies to justice, says Matthew Cowie at Rahman Ravelli.
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What's Next After FCA Drops Troubled 'Name And Shame' Plan
A closer look at the Financial Conduct Authority's recent decision to toss its widely unpopular proposal changing the test for announcing enforcement investigations may reveal how we got here, why the regulator changed course, and where it’s headed next, say lawyers at Hogan Lovells.
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What To Note In EU Tech Transfer Agreements Consultation
Robert Klotz at Steptoe explains the European Commission’s main contemplated amendments to a regulation that exempts certain technology transfer agreements from European Union restrictions, the current political context around the ongoing reform, and as its potential consequences for businesses.
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UK Refusal Of US Extradition Request May Set New Standard
The recent U.K. Supreme Court ruling in El-Khouri v. U.S., denying a U.S. extradition request, overturns a long-held precedent and narrows how U.K. courts must decide such requests, potentially signaling a broader reevaluation of U.K. extradition law, say lawyers at Dechert and Kingsley Napley.