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Private prosecutions – A route to justice for the charity sector
Sophie Tang
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.
19 November 2020
Outcome 22: are the police utilising this important diversionary tool or leaving it on the shelf?
David Lammy’s landmark review of racial bias in the Criminal Justice System (‘CJS’), made many key recommendations to help improve trust and fairness in the CJS when it was published in 2017. One of which was to expand the use of the deferred prosecution for adults and young offenders.
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