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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
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.
1 December 2020
The new Sentencing Code - what is it?
The new Sentencing Act 2020 (“the Act”), which encompasses the ‘Sentencing Code’ (“the Code”), is in force from today (1 December 2020). The Act, through its Code, has as its central aim the intention of consolidating and simplifying the sentencing regime. It is anticipated that the Code will bring greater clarity to the plethora of different sentencing procedures and regimes by centralising it into one place. Many legal practitioners, judges and academics have supported this reform.
1 December 2020
Pension Fraud: first confiscation order secured by The Pension Regulator
Over £30 million is reported to have been lost to pension scammers since 2017 according to complaints made to Action Fraud. The FCA and other regulators are advising savers to exercise caution in relation to pension fraud, in an effort to minimise the risk that consumers will suffer loss in the first place.
30 November 2020
Rise in Cum-Ex investigations across Europe: Cum-Ex trades explained
In recent years, Cum-Ex trading has gained notoriety following large scale regulatory, civil and criminal investigations spanning several European countries.
26 November 2020
Another Civil Recovery Settlement: SFO v Julio Faerman
On 12 November the SFO announced that it had secured an agreement from Julio Faerman to pay a total of £1,198,424.78, following a civil recovery investigation into his UK assets. These assets included a £4.25m luxury apartment in West London which the SFO suspected to have been partly purchased with funds derived from its owner’s corruption.
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