Radical proposals to overhaul how the U.K. combats fraud would increase the incentives for defendants to plead early, heap pressure on digital platforms to overhaul their culture and redirect funds into the criminal justice system.
The implosion of the U.K.'s first-ever criminal trade sanctions case throws a "spanner in the works" for prosecutors but might not totally check their ambitions of aggressively enforcing wide-ranging restrictions imposed on Russia, lawyers say.
The Financial Conduct Authority is putting senior managers of banks at a potentially higher risk of enforcement action after a tribunal forced it to partially suspend its motor finance compensation program, lawyers warn.
The government's growing use of sanctions to disrupt criminals targeting Britain is creating more work for white-collar lawyers, even if they object that the heavy-handed foreign policy tool flouts the rule of law.
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Radical proposals to overhaul how the U.K. combats fraud would increase the incentives for defendants to plead early, heap pressure on digital platforms to overhaul their culture and redirect funds into the criminal justice system.
The implosion of the U.K.'s first-ever criminal trade sanctions case throws a "spanner in the works" for prosecutors but might not totally check their ambitions of aggressively enforcing wide-ranging restrictions imposed on Russia, lawyers say.
The Financial Conduct Authority is putting senior managers of banks at a potentially higher risk of enforcement action after a tribunal forced it to partially suspend its motor finance compensation program, lawyers warn.
The government's growing use of sanctions to disrupt criminals targeting Britain is creating more work for white-collar lawyers, even if they object that the heavy-handed foreign policy tool flouts the rule of law.
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July 17, 2026
The most senior judge in England and Wales criticized the attorney general and Crown Prosecution Service on Friday over their role in what she called the "sensationalist reporting" of a rape trial that prompted the "personal condemnation and vilification" of a judge.
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July 17, 2026
The European Public Prosecutor's Office has said that it has indicted 22 people, including four former Greek parliament members, former public officials and political staff, during its probe into an alleged agricultural funds fraud scheme.
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July 17, 2026
A former commercial property developer lost his bid to challenge his 2011 conviction for an investment fraud of more than £1.3 million ($1.7 million), as a London appellate court ruled Friday that his argument had "no merit whatsoever."
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July 17, 2026
Two former directors of a telecom technology company have settled their £8 million ($10.8 million) claim against their successors over allegedly being tricked into selling their shares at a fraction of their true value.
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July 17, 2026
The past week in London has seen Snapchat and Dolby press on with a fresh infringement claim in their ongoing patent battle, The Telegraph face an intellectual property claim by a photo archive, a group of international human rights barristers and chambers sued, and oil business Equinor embroiled in a contract dispute with BP after recently acquiring full ownership in their offshore project. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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July 17, 2026
The British government has named Virgin Money's former chief executive Jayne-Anne Gadhia as its preferred candidate to become chair of the Financial Reporting Council, despite a parliamentary committee stopping short of backing her for the role.
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July 17, 2026
A businessman who was jailed for harassing two leading financial crime lawyers in a campaign that culminated in a fake bomb attack on their office lost his appeal against his conviction and sentence on Friday.
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July 17, 2026
A water company has been fined more than £7 million ($9.5 million) for illegally discharging sewage off England's southeast coast over two years, causing widespread damage to the local environment and economy.
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July 17, 2026
The government must revise its planned changes to pension transfer regulations, as proposals intended to strengthen protections against scams could instead create unnecessary barriers to legitimate transfers while doing little to deter fraud, an industry body has warned.
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July 16, 2026
Swedbank AB and its New York branch have agreed to pay a $50 million civil penalty to the New York State Department of Financial Services to resolve claims that the bank failed to fully cooperate with department requests for information related to Swedbank's relationships with Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of the 2016 Panama Papers leak.
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July 16, 2026
A businessman who was jailed for a harassment campaign against two leading financial crime lawyers that culminated in a fake bomb attack on their office urged a London appellate court to overturn his conviction Thursday.
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July 16, 2026
Europe's top court ruled Thursday that the rules of the governing body of world football regarding players' agents breach the EU's ban on cartels, but said national courts must decide whether other rules also violate competition law.
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July 16, 2026
Information provided by Meta aided the arrest of six men in Nigeria on suspicion of operating a scam center where they allegedly impersonated internationally recognized celebrities to defraud victims around the world, including in the U.K., the National Crime Agency said Thursday.
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July 16, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority said Thursday that it had 170 misleading adverts for car finance compensation claims removed or changed by claims management companies in a single month, bringing the total to 1,200 since January 2024.
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July 16, 2026
The Office of the Complaints Commissioner has said in its annual report that it reviewed more than 50% more complaints about the Financial Conduct Authority in 2025-26 than in the previous year, particularly those about the British Steel Pension Scheme.
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July 16, 2026
Outsourcing giant Capita urged a London court on Thursday to trim the claims of almost 4,000 individuals who say the company owes them up to £5 million ($6.75 million) over a cyberattack, arguing that claims for aggravated and exemplary damages are not supported by evidence.
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July 16, 2026
The government announced sanctions on Thursday designed to target Sudan's illicit gold trade, procurement networks and the financial facilitators suspected of helping sustain the country's civil war.
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July 16, 2026
Two hackers who carried out a cyberattack that cost Transport for London £39 million ($52.6 million) were each sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison on Thursday as a judge said their actions were motivated by "selfish bravado."
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July 16, 2026
A judge discharged jurors on Thursday in HM Revenue and Customs' prosecution of a barrister for tax evasion after almost two weeks of deliberations in which the panel was unable to reach a verdict.
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July 15, 2026
Two men were convicted of defrauding hospitals and businesses and a woman was convicted of money laundering in a COVID-19 PPE fraud worth millions of pounds, the U.K.'s National Crime Agency reported Wednesday.
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July 15, 2026
A London judge refused Wednesday to allow an investment fund to join litigation over frozen bank accounts allegedly containing the proceeds of a €45 million ($51 million) fraud the fund says it suffered.
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July 15, 2026
One of the men behind the cyberattack that cost Transport for London £29 million ($39 million) continued to attempt to hack from a smuggled phone while in prison, a prosecutor told the sentencing hearing for the two men on Wednesday.
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July 15, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has referred a lawyer convicted of stalking a legal blogger to a disciplinary tribunal, the watchdog said Wednesday.
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July 15, 2026
The Bank of England and the government have released proposals to ease rules on ring-fenced banking, which would free up retail banks to lend more money and share services so far restricted to the investment banking side.
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July 14, 2026
A trio of Russian nationals and the "bulletproof hosting" services they operated have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Ohio on charges that they helped facilitate cyberattacks against banks, hospitals and other critical infrastructure operators across nearly two dozen states and several countries, leading to more than $62 million in losses, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.