Steven Morris, a partner in the commercial litigation team at Howard Kennedy, examines the way in which the Courts have recently dealt with the issues of illegality and restitution
Since the start of the scheme in 2012, half of the total proceeds of crime recovered through the payment of confiscation orders have been...
Dishonesty has been re-defined. This is a major development: both for those of us in the legal profession and for those who are accused of fraud....
This chapter explores the development of civil recovery as an enforcement tool in the context of corporate crime..
A Q&A guide to dispute resolution law in the UK (England and Wales)...
A top court has quashed an attempt by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office to reinstate charges against Barclays over the bank's fundraisings in 2008, when it dodged a state bailout thanks to Qatari investors....
The temptation to data dump e-documents has been too much for some firms and clients. Big data has made it too easy for a good attorney to ...
This study explores the nature of forensic accounting in the UK. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and a postal questionnaire,..
Accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause and the global financial investigations firm RGL Forensics have merged...
Most businesses experience some problems getting paid on time by their customers. Good credit control helps to prevent this becoming a serious problem....
If a person or company owes you money and won't pay, there are ways of recovering the debt. The action you take will depend on the size of the debt and your ability to prove that you are owed the money....
If you have debt problems, you may be thinking about the possibility of bankruptcy. It's important to understand what bankruptcy is and what alternatives exist....
You should be contacted automatically by the Official Receiver/Insolvency Practitioner (OR/IP) if he or she knows that you are a creditor....
Many people mistakenly believe that as a director of a limited company, they have no personal liability in regard to their corporate actions. ..
The case of Dalamd Limited v Butterworth Spengler Commercial Limited [2018] EWHC 2558 (Comm) deals with the sadly not ...
The grey clouds also hung over RSA which suffered a £43m underwriting loss in second disappointing...
The Government is being urged to probe a controversial group that represented thousands of small investors in Royal Bank of Scotland...
With very few large-scale shareholder group actions having been filed in the United Kingdom...
On 9 April, the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in Deutsche Bahn v Morgan Crucible, in which it clarified the rules regarding...
On 29 March 2017, the UK Government served formal notice under Article 50 of The Treaty on European Union to terminate the UK's membership of the EU ...
Burford launches insurance business while Fieldfisher spin-off begins £100m unequal pay claim
Contractual and commercial disputes can be costly, time consuming and stressful. Minor disputes can escalate ...
It has long been argued that a company is preferable to a traditional partnership because of the protection from liability it offers to its directors / shareholders.
In the opening speech for our 2016 litigation summit, Essex Court heavyweight Sir Bernard Eder reflects on the challenges facing the Commercial Court ...
On 20 December 2018, NEX Exchange published for consultation proposed amendments to the NEX Exchange Growth Market Rules...
EU regulations on food and drink should be transposed into UK law before the end of the Brexit transitional period, in order to avoid a ...
Jude law is set to return in a follow-up series to The Young Pope. The new show, dubbed The New Pope, will also star John Malkovich and will ...
A report by the UK's Electoral Commission has called for urgent changes in the law to increase transparency about how digital tools are being ...
Article 11 of the proposed law requires online platforms to pay publishers ... In the case of the UK, it would only become law if it comes into force ...
Hotel booking sites are again coming under scrutiny, three years after U.K. regulators closed an antitrust probe into contracts that may have ...
The Home Office faces a legal challenge over the fees it charges for registering a child as a British citizen, with critics saying they “destroy the ...
The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill was introduced to the House of Lords on Tuesday 3 July and seeks to replace the current system known ...
As we hurtle towards Brexit it is striking to note the Conservative government herald the fact that it has introduced new measures that will ...
Human rights organisations welcome the launch of a UK consultation on reforming the Gender Recognition Act. UK currently has a declining ...
The couple, who entered a civil partnership in the UK in 2004, have ... the law applies to all persons in HK, including the LGBTI community,” she ...
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