‘Two sisters who used their positions as Girl Guides volunteers in a scheme which defrauded the taxpayer out of nearly £500,000 have been jailed.’
BBC News, 18th November 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Now experts have warned that voice-cloning is outpacing the law as technologists hone previously clunky voice generators into models capable of emulating the subtlest pauses and breathing of human intonation.’
The Guardian, 19th November 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The concept of holding corporate entities accountable for their failure to prevent fraud has been debated for some time. We previously wrote in detail about the process which ultimately led to the introduction into law last autumn of a new corporate criminal offence. Section 199 of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) sits alongside the UK’s existing laws on fraud and corruption and is intended to make it easier to hold organisations to account by creating an offence of failing to prevent fraud committed by employees, or other ‘associated persons’, which may benefit the organisation.’
Kingsley Napley Criminal Law Blog, 12th November 2024
Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk
‘Today we’ve published guidance that will provide organisations with important advice on the new corporate criminal offence of ‘failure to prevent fraud’, helping make sure they are taking action to prevent fraud.’
Home Office, 6th November 2024
Source: www.gov.uk
‘Magistrates who made a “clearly irrational” order for a gas engineer to pay £22,000 within 28 days were following a “standard practice” which was unlawful, the High Court has ruled.’
Law Society's Gazette, 6th November 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The leaders of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) yesterday refused to apologise to the profession about the Axiom Ince collapse as they dismissed the report criticising its actions as just opinion.’
BBC news, 6th November 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The government could miss its own cladding removal completion date if progress is not made to speed up the process, the UK’s spending watchdog has said. In a new report, external, the National Audit Office (NAO) said up to 60% of buildings with dangerous cladding had still not been identified by the government, and at its current rate of progress it was due to miss its own estimated completion date of 2035 for the works.’
BBC News, 4th November 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The solicitors’ regulator is to face unprecedented enforcement action under the Legal Services Act following the discovery of a catalogue of failures in its handling of the 2023 collapse of law firm Axiom Ince.’
Law Society's Gazette, 29th October 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Carson McDowell review into the regulatory events leading up to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s intervention into Axiom Ince culminates with four pages of recommendations.’
Law Society's Gazette, 29th October 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A new insurance fraud charter was announced at the latest Joint Fraud Taskforce meeting.’
Home Office, 25th October 2024
Source: www.gov.uk
‘The Serious Fraud Office is investigating the construction of a hotel and conference centre owned by one of the UK’s biggest trade unions, the BBC can reveal.’
BBC News, 21st October 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A woman who has been living in the UK for 22 years said she has been left “traumatised” after being told she could be deported.’
BBC News, 18th October 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Post Office has recently explored resuming the practice of taking branch owner-operators to court, as mounting losses from shortfalls in its network of 11,500 outlets hit £12m a year. During the Horizon IT scandal more than 900 operators were wrongly prosecuted over discrepancies caused by the faulty accounting software, many of them brought privately by the Post Office, a practice it stopped in 2015 and has promised not to restart. However, the Post Office continued to use the court system for the civil recovery of losses from branches until 2018.’
The Guardian, 13th October 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘As push payment fraud balloons, a scheme is coming into force to help those tricked by criminals’ increasingly sophisticated tactics.’
The Guardian, 7th October 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Businesses across the UK should examine the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) 2024 Food Crime Strategic Assessment and factor its key themes and overarching food crime methods into their risk assessments, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 1st October 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A property developer who put “lives at risk” by falsifying building work documents and selling “unsafe” flats has been jailed.’
BBC News, 2nd October 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A couple were caught running a trafficking scheme that managed six slaves working at a McDonald’s restaurant.’
The Independent, 1st October 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The former human rights lawyer Phil Shiner has pleaded guilty to fraud charges linked to claims made against Iraq war veterans.’
The Guardian, 1st October 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Given the speed with which stolen assets can be transferred through the global banking system, and the increase in cyber fraud and invoice hacking incidents, time is of the essence if you are to successfully recover money stolen by a rogue employee through fraud.’
OUT-LAW.com. 26th September 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘UK securities litigation claim numbers are rising due to factors such as increased availability of litigation finance from third party funders, the growth of shareholder activism, and the use of litigation as a tool for corporate governance and compliance.’
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd September 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
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