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Private prosecutions – A route to justice for the charity sector
Sophie Tang
21 December 2020
HMRC fails to deliver on pledge to increase criminal prosecutions by end of 2020, FOI request reveals
HMRC has dramatically failed to deliver on the pledge in its 2015 – 2020 business plan to increase the number of criminal prosecutions of wealthy individuals and corporates to 100 per year by 2020.
17 December 2020
You are what you package your food in - Food Standards Agency consults on changes to food contact materials offences
On 4 November 2020, the Food Standards Agency (“FSA”) launched a consultation seeking views on proposed changes to the offences for non-compliance under the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2012 (the “Regulations”).
9 December 2020
First anniversary of the extension of the Senior Managers & Certification Regime
As we near the first anniversary of the extension of the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SM&CR) to solo-regulated FCA firms, the first round of annual fitness and propriety assessments will be topping the to-do lists of many compliance professionals.
4 December 2020
Return to sender: Illegal waste exports are returned to the UK
On 28 October 2020 the Environment Agency (“EA”) announced that a consignment of 21 waste containers, which were illegally shipped to Sri Lanka in 2017, had been successfully returned to their point of origin in the UK.
3 December 2020
Care home ordered to pay £167,670 for health and safety breaches
Sentinel Health Care Limited has pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to provide safe care and treatment, resulting in avoidable harm, to resident Andrew Clegg and a further charge of failing to provide safe care and treatment exposing other service users, to a significant risk of avoidable harm.
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