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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
14 October 2015
European regulation of insider dealing and market manipulation: build up to the new market abuse regime from 2016
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has recently published its final technical standards on, inter alia, the Market Abuse Regulation (Regulation 596/2014) (MAR). The technical standards include proposed “regulatory technical standards” (RTS) and “implementing technical standards” (ITS). The RTS and ITS have now been passed to the European Commission, which has three months to decide whether to accept the final standards.
13 October 2015
Resentencing the Krays
If the Krays were sentenced today, would their sentence still be remarkable? asks Shamsun Nahar
8 October 2015
High-profile cases: speak or be forever damned
In the court of public opinion it’s easy to be ‘convicted’ by social media, which is why some are taking a proactive approach. The recent high-profile cases of Cliff Richard and the rumoured Westminster paedophile ring share more than their common subject matter of historic sexual abuse. They provide examples of tactical decisions to confront intense media scrutiny with detailed public denials and, in effect, a demand that their investigators “put up or shut up”.
8 October 2015
HMRC proposals for tackling off-shore tax evasion seriously flawed
With the deadline for responses to HMRC’s consultation on new proposed powers to “crack down” on offshore tax evasion due today, David Sleight and Edmund Smyth set out their concerns relating to the hard hitting proposals, which include a strict liability offence for individuals who are suspected of offshore tax evasion.
6 October 2015
A compassionate magistrate and a lamentable government
This is a modern parable, with an unfortunate ending.
Nigel Allcoat, a magistrate from Leicester, had to decide what to do with a debtor, a young man who had been unable to pay a criminal court charge of £180. The man was destitute, surviving on the £36 a week provided to him by the state. There was no prospect of the charge being paid, yet Allcoat was not permitted by law to remit it.
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