Law and the Justice System

  • 23 Jun 2023 11:10 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The @SentencingCCL has revised the Totality guideline setting out principles for courts to follow wef 1 July when sentencing an offender for more than one offence, or where the offender is already serving a sentence.


    https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/news/item/revised-totality-guideline-published/
  • 16 Jun 2023 5:18 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Judges will be given greater powers to dismiss lawsuits designed purely to evade scrutiny and stifle freedom of speech through government amendments to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/crackdown-on-criminals-silencing-critics-to-be-added-to-economic-crime-bill

  • 16 Jun 2023 5:01 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Figures show marked falls in conviction rates for fraud cases referred by HMRC and DWP.

    More than 2,000 people have been prosecuted on suspicion of defrauding different parts of government over the past four years, but numbers are dropping at government's two biggest departments, according to the Cabinet Office.

    https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/dwp-hmrc-government-fraud-prosecutions-covid-strikes-blame-chisholm

  • 13 Jun 2023 12:56 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Delays to fraud cases in England and Wales have doubled in eight years, prompting fresh criticism that not enough is being done to deliver justice.

    The rise in delays came despite the number of fraud cases coming through the courts dropping to barely a third of 2014 levels, according to the analysis by the Criminal Bar Association (CBA).

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/11/fraud-case-delays-england-and-wales?CMP=share_btn_tw


  • 13 Jun 2023 12:48 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A CONVICTED fraudster and money launderer has been ordered to pay back nearly half a million pounds in money gained through crime or else face five years in prison.

    Arthur Wilder must pay back the money within three months or face going back to jail after a court ruling made this week.

    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fraudster-must-pay-back-nearly-153851419.html/


  • 11 Jun 2023 11:15 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Against a backdrop of increasing client account fraud, we consider the Commercial Court’s recent judgment on the meaning of “condoning” in the context of the fraud and dishonesty exclusion in a Solicitors’ Professional Indemnity Insurance policy. The decision also looked at issues of aggregation and sham partnership but these are not the focus of this article.

    https://www.kennedyslaw.com/thought-leadership/case-review/2023/to-condone-or-not-to-condone-fraud-is-the-question/

  • 19 Apr 2023 11:40 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The Criminal Finances Act 2017 has resulted in civil law proceedings dominating Proceeds of Crime law. In a blog, Andrew Katzen and Olivia Dwan analyse this trend, and ask what it means for practitioners and targeted individuals.

    https://www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/?p=1652

  • 14 Apr 2023 5:05 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A new criminal offence of failing to prevent fraud is to be added to UK law and applied to large businesses and other large organisations.

    https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/failure-prevent-fraud-offence-apply-uk-large-organisations

  • 14 Apr 2023 4:35 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    New offence will make it easier to prosecute a large organisation if an employee commits fraud for the organisation’s benefit.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-crackdown-on-fraud-introduced-by-home-office

  • 20 Mar 2023 10:44 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    UK regulators in the financial services, telecoms and professional services sectors could be placed under a statutory duty to prevent economic crime under a proposal set out by a UK law maker.

    https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/failure-prevent-economic-crime-duty-proposed-uk-regulators

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