Prosecutors are weighing charges over the Grenfell Tower fire after a nine-year police investigation, but lawyers say that building criminal cases from the evidence will be difficult because of the potential number of defendants and complex chains of responsibility.
Proposals to reward whistleblowers for information could put the Serious Fraud Office back on boardroom agendas, despite the controversy and practical hurdles facing the government's proposed incentive program, lawyers say.
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Lawyers and MPs are calling for an externally-led investigation into the handling by the Financial Conduct Authority of whistleblower Simon Andriesz before his recent suicide, the latest in a series of controversies over its treatment of whistleblowers.
Lawyers say they expect more people to claim compensation for silicosis developed as a result of exposure in the workplace amid a rise in regulatory action and diagnoses of the incurable progressive lung condition.
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Prosecutors are weighing charges over the Grenfell Tower fire after a nine-year police investigation, but lawyers say that building criminal cases from the evidence will be difficult because of the potential number of defendants and complex chains of responsibility.
Proposals to reward whistleblowers for information could put the Serious Fraud Office back on boardroom agendas, despite the controversy and practical hurdles facing the government's proposed incentive program, lawyers say.
Lawyers and MPs are calling for an externally-led investigation into the handling by the Financial Conduct Authority of whistleblower Simon Andriesz before his recent suicide, the latest in a series of controversies over its treatment of whistleblowers.
Lawyers say they expect more people to claim compensation for silicosis developed as a result of exposure in the workplace amid a rise in regulatory action and diagnoses of the incurable progressive lung condition.
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October 16, 2026
The Royal Bank of Scotland has hit back against a collapsed investment company's £73 million ($97 million) claim, denying it had any responsibility for allegedly allowing payments earmarked for solar farms to be misappropriated for the company's director.
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October 16, 2026
The government said Friday it was monitoring the situation after a board advising on compensation for victims of the Post Office IT scandal warned that gaps in legal regulators' powers could hamper investigations into alleged lawyer misconduct.
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October 16, 2026
Truck maintenance company TIP Trailer Services UK Ltd. is suing several former Culina Group executives behind a trailer refurbishment business it bought for £12.1 million ($16.2 million), alleging they hid the business's ties to Culina and misled TIP about the reliability of a key contract with the logistics giant.
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October 16, 2026
The past week in London has seen failed cryptocurrency platform BitMEX sue Celsius Network amid ongoing litigation between the companies, and an independent music producer lodge a claim against Universal Music over the 1993 Gabrielle hit single "Dreams."
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October 16, 2026
Sanctions could block approximately $29 million that oil companies owe Yemen if there is a significant risk that the money might reach the Houthi movement, even without proof that the group controls the country's government, Europe's top court has ruled.
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October 16, 2026
The financial watchdog revoked Friday the lifetime bans on four traders whose convictions for rigging benchmark interest rates were overturned on appeal in landmark proceedings that unraveled prosecutions brought after the global financial crisis.
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October 16, 2026
The data protection regulator said Friday that it has taken enforcement action against the Metropolitan Police after finding that officers uploaded personal information about 179 people to an unapproved platform used to identify suspected shoplifters.
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October 15, 2026
European Union prosecutors said Thursday that authorities have carried out a series of raids across Norway, Romania and Germany as part of a €1 million ($1.12 million) fraud investigation into a company supplying services to NATO military vessels.
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October 15, 2026
A woman testified at Russell Brand's rape and sexual assault trial in London on Thursday that the actor and comedian "changed" and became "monster-like" before raping her in a hotel room after a play.
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October 15, 2026
An English appeals court denied a U.K. marketing company's liquidators permission on Thursday to challenge a ruling that a Caribbean bank and its former CEO had not dishonestly assisted a £415 million ($550 million) tax fraud.
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October 15, 2026
New York's financial services regulator has ordered Sweden's largest bank to pay a $33 million fine to resolve findings of past anti-money laundering deficiencies at its Baltic subsidiaries that allegedly exposed U.S. banks to heightened financial crimes risk.
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October 15, 2026
Lloyd's of London insurers must continue paying up to £45 million ($60 million) in additional criminal defense costs for two former Petrofac executives due to stand trial on bribery charges, as the Court of Appeal dismissed their bid to avoid the policy.
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October 15, 2026
Axiom Ince's former chief financial officer denied on Thursday a new charge brought by the Serious Fraud Office as it investigates the shuttered law firm, which collapsed with a hole of more than £60 million ($80 million) in its client accounts.
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October 15, 2026
The European Securities and Markets Authority warned in a report published Thursday of a gulf in enforcement across the European Economic Area, after national regulators imposed fines totaling almost €82 million ($92 million) during 2025.
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October 15, 2026
Retail brokers are still failing to detect and report potential market abuse, raising the risk that suspicious trading will go unnoticed, the Financial Conduct Authority has said.
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October 14, 2026
European enforcers have accepted commitments from Sanofi over concerns that it blocked competition from a rival flu vaccine for vulnerable patients by making disparaging statements to healthcare professionals in Germany and France.
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October 14, 2026
The U.K. tax authority outlined its soccer compliance work to a parliamentary committee in a letter released Wednesday, but it remained silent on the findings of an independent soccer commission that Manchester City Football Club used "sham" contracts to inflate its income.
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October 14, 2026
A Swiss commodities trader and its Dutch owner argued in a London court Wednesday that the company should not be sanctioned for trading in Russian oil, saying the decision was irrational because it had only traded on international commodities markets.
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October 14, 2026
A City lawyer denied on Wednesday that he was a shadow director at British Home Stores prior to its collapse, insisting at a London court that his only role was to "advise and assist."
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October 14, 2026
A software engineer has sued BitMEX, alleging that the cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform founded by Reform UK donor Ben Delo sold him unlicensed crypto-derivatives, leading to losses of more than £10 million ($13.2 million).
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October 14, 2026
A disciplinary tribunal has disbarred a barrister and former part-time judge for professional misconduct after he was convicted of defrauding a public legal aid fund out of £1.8 million ($2.4 million).
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October 14, 2026
Comedian and actor Russell Brand was "ruthless, calculating and manipulative" and a "sexual predator," prosecutors told the opening of a rape and sexual assault trial on Wednesday.
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October 14, 2026
A real estate lender has sued Colliers for at least £5 million ($7 million), accusing the building consultancy of providing fraudulent and dishonest reports that induced it to provide loan facilities to a construction company for two developments.
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October 13, 2026
The U.K. government has reaffirmed its commitment to increasing the size of the magistracy by 50% and lifting the cap on Crown Court sitting days as it embraced the overwhelming majority of recommendations from an independent review to tackle backlogs and other problems in the criminal court system.
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October 13, 2026
A Singapore-based petroleum company asked a London appellate court on Tuesday to impose a worldwide freezing order on its former chief executive and "de facto" chief financial officer.