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Private prosecutions – A route to justice for the charity sector
Sophie Tang
20 January 2017
FCA uses criminal powers for first time against alleged unlicensed lender
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has for the first time instituted a criminal prosecution under the consumer credit powers it inherited from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) on 1 April 2014.
18 January 2017
Corporate Criminal Liability – Consultation opened over need for reform
On 13 January 2017, the UK government published a call for evidence relating to possible reform of corporate criminal liability. The consultation seeks views on whether further reform is needed to combat corporate criminality in areas of economic crime other than bribery and tax evasion, which already have specific corporate offences under the Bribery Act 2010 and the proposed corporate tax offence of failure to prevent tax evasion set out in the Criminal Finances Bill. The consultation closes on 24 March 2017.
6 January 2017
International Bar Association War Crimes Committee Conference – 4 February 2017 – “The World in Crisis”
The War Crimes Committee of the International Bar Association is holding its third specialist conference at the start of February. The conference will be held at the Peace Palace in The Hague, home to the International Court of Justice, on Saturday 4 February 2017.
4 January 2017
Universal jurisdiction and the refugee crisis
According to a recent article, despite the Home Office refusing 135 claims for British citizenship in the past three years because of suspected involvement in war crimes, the authorities failed to refer any of the cases to the police; nor were any the applicants referred for deportation, meaning that they remain at large in the UK.
20 December 2016
How the government took the fight to corporate criminals in 2016
This year has seen significant developments in the economic crime arena, all of which demonstrate that the government is bolstering its fight against white collar and corporate crime
- Controlling and coercive behaviour
- Corporate crime
- Corporate manslaughter and health and safety
- Crime and justice
- Cyber crime
- Extradition and international crime
- Financial crime and financial regulatory enforcement
- Fraud
- Internal investigations
- Legal Updates
- Online Safety Regulation
- Police investigations
- Proceeds of Crime
- The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act
- Unexplained Wealth Orders
- Youth crime and justice