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14 Maternity Trusts to be Scrutinised as Part of National Investigation
Kirsty Allen
6 October 2017
My Legal Advice To My Fresher Son
As I waved my son off to uni this week, I tried to give him some motherly legal advice (although as it comes from me, I fear he may well ignore it). The advice is drawn from my years of representing other mothers’ sons who have been accused of rape or other sexual crimes on campus. Because I know that my son generally cannot remember more than a nugget of information at a time, I kept it brief:
6 October 2017
Extradition: The Divisional Court has refused to extradite alleged génocidaires to Rwanda--will a domestic prosecution follow?
The Divisional Court has dismissed the appeal of the Government of Rwanda in the high-profile extradition proceedings against five alleged génocidaires in the case of Rwanda v Nteziryayo and ors. The men will not be extradited to Rwanda to stand trial for genocide and it now appears that, if they are to be tried at all, it must be in the UK.
2 October 2017
Will the new corporate offence of failure to prevent tax evasion and enhanced international tax transparency change the landscape for tax investigations?
The 30 September 2017 is an important date for HMRC and its “relentless” clampdown on global tax evasion.
2 October 2017
Failure to prevent tax evasion? Responsibility shifted from HMRC onto companies
In the aftermath of the Panama Papers scandal, MPs from the Public Accounts Committee provided a damning indictment of HMRC’s performance in tackling tax evasion. With losses from tax fraud at a staggering £16 billion and a tax gap of £32 million, HMRC faced fierce criticism for letting “big multinationals off the hook” and leaving “an impression that the rich can get away with tax fraud.”
2 October 2017
Holding Corporates to Account: Criminal Liability for Failure to Prevent Facilitation of Tax Evasion
30 September 2017 marks a major milestone in HMRC’s commitment to be “relentless in its crackdown on tax evasion and avoidance”. From this date companies can be held to account for failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion by an associated person – at home or abroad – unless it can prove that it had reasonable prevention procedures in place, or that it was unreasonable to expect it to have such procedures.
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