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Private prosecutions – A route to justice for the charity sector
Sophie Tang
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.
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).
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.
17 June 2015
Sentencing very large companies for environmental crimes – Fines equal to 100% of profit not unreasonable
The first case involving a very large organisation to come before the Court of Appeal since the implementation of new environmental sentencing guidelines, has confirmed that such offenders can now expect fines to run into several millions of pounds.
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