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Private prosecutions – A route to justice for the charity sector
Sophie Tang
9 March 2017
Budget 2017 – 35 “New” ways to tackle tax avoidance and evasion
Philip Hammond MP, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has delivered the last (for the time being) Spring Budget.
8 March 2017
International Criminal Law – A month in review – February 2017
International Crime News Review for February 2017
6 March 2017
FCA’s use of private warnings under scrutiny
The FCA has privately warned 39 senior executives of financial firms over the last five years. According to figures obtained from the Financial Times, 14 of these executives still hold authorised roles in the financial services industry.
3 March 2017
New amendments to FCA/PRA decision-making practice and procedure from 1 March 2017: partly contested cases and abolition of stage 2 and 3 settlement penalty discounts
We have commented previously on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (“FCA”) and Prudential Regulation Authority’s (“PRA”) joint policy statement on enforcement decision-making (see here). By way of a reminder, the FCA and the PRA published in February 2017 a joint policy statement on the proposed implementation of HM Treasury's (“HMT”) review of enforcement decision-making at the FCA and the PRA and Andrew Green QC's report into the FSA's enforcement actions following the failure of HBOS plc. The policy statement outlines the amendments to the FCA’s Glossary, the Decision Procedure and Penalties manual (“DEPP”) and the Enforcement Guide (“EG”).
2 March 2017
Judge-only Crown Court trials: a rarely required safeguard
Sections 44 and 46 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 provide for a trial on indictment to take place in England and Wales without a jury where there is a danger of jury tampering taking place or where it appears that such tampering has taken place.
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