The Court of Appeal's recent decision that the Solicitors Regulation Authority must prove that Dentons' breach of money laundering legislation was "sufficiently serious" could complicate the watchdog's job of enforcing its rules, experts say.
The goal of the Serious Fraud Office to accelerate its investigations through intelligence-gathering and technology signals that the white-collar agency's new interim director will persist with plans put in place by predecessor Nick Ephgrave after his surprise exit earlier in April.
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A recent court ruling that expands legal advice privilege to cover some internal corporate communications gives companies greater scope for withholding sensitive material but is likely to prompt challenges over whether those documents meet the test for protection, lawyers say.
Britain's tax agency has begun to wield strengthened enforcement powers to combat tax fraud in the construction industry after reforms that lawyers warn could trigger disputes as businesses challenge whether they meet the regime's contentious "should have known" test.
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The Court of Appeal's recent decision that the Solicitors Regulation Authority must prove that Dentons' breach of money laundering legislation was "sufficiently serious" could complicate the watchdog's job of enforcing its rules, experts say.
The goal of the Serious Fraud Office to accelerate its investigations through intelligence-gathering and technology signals that the white-collar agency's new interim director will persist with plans put in place by predecessor Nick Ephgrave after his surprise exit earlier in April.
A recent court ruling that expands legal advice privilege to cover some internal corporate communications gives companies greater scope for withholding sensitive material but is likely to prompt challenges over whether those documents meet the test for protection, lawyers say.
Britain's tax agency has begun to wield strengthened enforcement powers to combat tax fraud in the construction industry after reforms that lawyers warn could trigger disputes as businesses challenge whether they meet the regime's contentious "should have known" test.
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May 01, 2026
A former business executive has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, following an order to extradite him to the U.S. over allegations that he and five other men helped wealthy American clients hide their income.
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May 01, 2026
An aircraft leasing company has settled its $40.5 million claim against insurer AXA for aircraft currently stranded in Russia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
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May 01, 2026
The past week in London has seen a Swiss energy trader bring a Financial List claim against shipping benchmarking company Baltic Exchange, law firm Slater and Gordon sued by a former client, Slack and Salesforce hit Microsoft with an antitrust claim, and Stephen Fry bring a personal injury claim after he broke bones falling off a stage. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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May 01, 2026
British defense contractor Ultra Electronics agreed to pay £14.8 million ($20.2 million) on Friday to settle a bribery investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into suspected corrupt payments involving airport contracts in Algeria and Oman.
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May 01, 2026
Johnson Matthey defeated on Friday a claim that it acted fraudulently in the £325 million ($444 million) sale of one of its pharmaceutical businesses, despite a finding by a London court that the chemicals business had failed to disclose to the buyer significant details about the transaction.
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May 01, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority said on Friday that it will mount a robust defense of its £7.5 billion ($10.2 billion) motor finance redress scheme against four legal challenges so far from lenders and a consumer group.
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April 30, 2026
The Financial Reporting Council published its final revision on Thursday to incoming auditing standards for assessing the risk of fraud and a company's ability to keep operating in the foreseeable future, highlighting a demand for greater transparency in audit reporting.
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April 30, 2026
A former sub-postmaster urged a London appellate court Thursday to overturn a decision to split his £4.5 million ($6 million) claim against the Post Office and Fujitsu over a 2007 civil judgment which he alleges was obtained by conspiracy, arguing that it is wrong in principle.
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April 30, 2026
The financial services watchdog hit a former mortgage broker with criminal charges on Thursday over allegations that he was arranging mortgage contracts after being banned.
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April 30, 2026
European Union prosecutors said Thursday that Italian and Dutch authorities have seized €55 million ($64 million) in a probe into alleged misappropriation of public funds linked to solar energy projects.
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April 30, 2026
Imprisoned oligarch Ziyavudin Magomedov can't revive his $14 billion claim that he was the victim of a Russian state-led conspiracy to strip his assets in two major port operators, after an appeals court rejected his latest challenge on Thursday.
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April 29, 2026
The U.K.'s prosecution watchdog said Thursday that the Serious Fraud Office is using external counsel "appropriately," but that the agency is relying on outside help to fill vacancies and needs to ensure that it is drawing from a diverse pool.
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April 29, 2026
A former executive at Jusan Technologies, the British financial services holding company, is accusing the company of withholding money he was owed because of his whistleblowing on embezzlement.
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April 29, 2026
The number of U.K. businesses near collapse increased by almost 37% with rising taxes ahead of the economic fallout of the Iran war, an insolvency firm warned in a report Wednesday.
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April 29, 2026
A senior solicitor has been fined by a tribunal over an "obvious" conflict of interest by serving as both a bondholder trustee and as a legal adviser to a firm behind a collapsed £237 million ($320 million) mini-bond scheme that defrauded investors.
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April 29, 2026
The U.K.'s policing bill passed into law on Wednesday in a major expansion of corporate criminal liability by holding major companies accountable for any crime committed by their senior managers.
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April 29, 2026
The University of Sussex won its bid to nix a record fine of more than half a million pounds on Wednesday after a London judge overturned a ruling that found "significant and serious" code breaches within its transgender equality statement.
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April 29, 2026
Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen have joined a group of four other entities challenging the lawfulness of the Financial Conduct Authority's £7.5 billion ($10 billion) motor finance redress system.
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April 29, 2026
The European Union's enforcement arm said on Wednesday that Meta breached the bloc's digital safety rules by failing to prevent children under 13 from using Facebook and Instagram.
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April 29, 2026
A lawyer resurrected her claim she was mistreated by a wealthy Hong Kong family for blowing the whistle on potential tax evasion as the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled Wednesday that a judge was too quick to dismiss her case as being outside British territorial jurisdiction.
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April 29, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority said Wednesday in its latest Market Watch newsletter that businesses must share customer information with each other on market abuse and other financial crime as far as the law allows.
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April 29, 2026
An Irish aircraft component lessor failed Wednesday to revive its claim against a Thai plane maintenance company it says caused it to send $824,900 to someone impersonating both companies after an appeals court held the fraud caused the loss.
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April 28, 2026
A solicitor has been suspended for two years and ordered to pay £15,000 ($20,000) after a tribunal found she had fabricated an attendance note certifying that a client had agreed to a change in legal fees.
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April 28, 2026
A former top in-house lawyer for ENRC told a London court Tuesday that fees paid to law firms during the mining company's response to the Serious Fraud Office's criminal investigation were not excessive, as the company was in an "existential" situation.
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April 28, 2026
European authorities warned Tuesday that cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and difficult to detect as they leverage artificial intelligence tools, encrypted messaging platforms and the dark web to evade law enforcement.