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23 July 2015

Scorecard for the Serious Fraud Office

As summer holidays are upon us it is not just school children receiving their school report – both the Serious Fraud Office and the Financial Conduct Authority have issued their own annual reports presented to Parliament. Both reports combine a strategic overview with detailed budget statements and a headline view of key successes for 2014-15. 

Louise Hodges

23 July 2015

Annual Report for Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) - international cooperation, market abuse, convictions, senior managers regime, whistleblowing and a historic year for fines

As the Parliamentary recess loomed, government departments and agencies rushed to publish their annual reports and accounts.  Alongside the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its own end of term report. 

Louise Hodges

14 July 2015

Revenge porn: No guarantee of anonymity for complainants

Sections 33-35 of the Criminal Courts and Justice Act 2015 created the offence of “disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress” in order to provide a mechanism to criminalise the relatively recent phenomenon of “revenge porn.”  This offence came into force on 13 April 2015.  

25 June 2015

Al-Bashir controversy: has standing of the ICC increased?

Some will argue that the protests following events in South Africa show the world cares about the Hague court.

Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir seemingly owes much to his influential friends in South Africa. Last week he hurriedly returned home from Johannesburg in defiance of a South African court order preventing him from doing so, pending a decision whether to enforce the outstanding arrest warrants of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Michael Caplan KC

24 June 2015

Fraudsters on the inside

There has long been a call to make the reporting of fraud a compulsory requirement, akin to the suspicious activity reports regime in money laundering, so that we have a full picture of the amount of fraud that goes on. 

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