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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
12 August 2025
Preparing for changes to non-disclosure agreements from 1 October 2025
In June the Ministry of Justice announced new legislation under the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 which affects NDAs and confidentiality clauses.* Related guidance, published at the beginning of June, sets out the impact of this legislation on the enforceability of such agreements.
6 December 2024
Festive frolics or regulatory wrongs in accountancy firms?
Best practice guidance to accountancy firms on how to conduct an investigation in the event of allegations of behavioural misconduct in the run-up to Christmas.
19 September 2023
What’s happening with failure to prevent?
Since our last update on the progress of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, Parliament has taken its summer break, and the British weather has been through all its seasons and back again.
But are we any closer to getting new corporate criminal offences on the statute books? The unavoidably non-committal answer is ‘yes and no’. In this article we chart the progress of the potential new failure to prevent fraud offence, but also the late introduction of amendments to extend the persons who can be the “directing mind and will” of a corporate body in order to establish corporate criminal liability.
23 July 2021
Charities and internal investigations
Charities are not immune to financial crime, fraud or other wrong-doing; there are a number of ways in which charities may be exploited by criminals.
6 August 2020
Insolvency interviews in the context of suspected criminal or regulatory misconduct
Interviews are frequently conducted by office-holders with individuals previously involved with an insolvent company, such as directors and officers, employees, accountants, lawyers and other third parties. Such interviews will often provide key information regarding the company’s trading and dealings and the actions of its directors and employees, thereby assisting office-holders seeking to investigate potential fraud, misfeasance and other forms of misconduct.
