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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
12 October 2023
Health and Safety / Corporate Manslaughter Quarterly Update – Q3 2023
This quarterly update provides a summary of a selection of news stories relating to health and safety investigations and prosecutions, as well as key corporate manslaughter cases, from the period July – September 2023.
12 October 2023
Environmental Law Quarterly Update - Q3 2023
This quarterly environmental law update provides a summary of news stories in the period July 2023 – September 2023.
9 October 2023
Extradition to the UK blocked
A European court recently blocked the extradition of an alleged drug dealer due to concerns over the protection of his human rights in the requesting state. Perhaps not an unusual decision at first glance. But what makes this case stand out is that the requesting state was the United Kingdom.
2 October 2023
Enforcement of Indian anti-money laundering attachment/confiscation orders in the United Kingdom
In the last decade, the Government of India has pursued dedicated legislative action towards achieving the objectives of its primary Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) statute i.e. Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 (“PMLA”). Not only has India enacted critical statutory amendments to widen the scope of the proceeds of crime under the PMLA to include foreign assets, but has also supplemented the PMLA with the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 (“FEOA”), which is aimed at confiscation of properties without trial/conviction where the “fugitive economic offender” fails to submit to the Indian jurisdiction. The FEOA applies to matters concerning values of more than INR 1 Billion (≈GBP 10 Million) or more. The investigation and enforcement authority under PMLA, i.e. the Directorate of Enforcement (“ED”) in India is making consistent and concentrated efforts to trace, attach/seize and confiscate foreign assets of persons alleged and/or suspected to have indulged in the money laundering.
28 September 2023
New FCA consultation sets out proposals on non-financial misconduct
On 25 September 2023 the FCA published Consultation Paper CP23/20 (CP23/23) on “Diversity and inclusion in the financial sector – working together to drive change”. The consultation is wide ranging in scope with a stated aim of ‘boosting diversity and inclusion to support healthy work cultures’. As well as containing various proposals to boost diversity and inclusion generally across regulated financial services, the consultation contains a number of proposals relating specifically to the issue of non-financial misconduct.
- 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