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 19, 2026
Five people have been arrested by authorities in Cyprus, Germany and Italy in connection with an investigation into a €114 million ($128 million) value-added tax fraud involving smartphones that took place across Europe, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said.
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October 19, 2026
A former soldier who was security manager for a Tanzanian mine told the High Court on Monday that Tanzanian police had killed people at the site, saying that more could have been done to improve the human rights situation.
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October 19, 2026
Weak anti-money-laundering safeguards in the U.K.'s new-build property market are allowing billions of pounds in potentially illicit wealth to enter the economy, an anti-corruption organization warned Monday.
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October 19, 2026
Three U.K.-based investors have settled their claim against an owner of India's Rajasthan Royals cricket team who they alleged misled them over the tax consequences of selling their shares and a $300 million valuation purportedly negotiated with a prospective buyer.
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October 19, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority has sued property investment specialist Hunter Jones Group and its director, accusing the company of promoting a multimillion-pound property investment plan that operated as a Ponzi scheme.
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October 19, 2026
Clearview AI told an appeals court Monday that the U.K.'s privacy watchdog had overstepped its powers by imposing a £7.5 million ($10 million) fine and data deletion order, which it said would force the closure of its facial recognition service.
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October 19, 2026
The European Union's financial markets regulator has widened the circumstances in which listed companies can delay disclosing sensitive information to investors, but stressed that these exceptions must be "interpreted narrowly."
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October 16, 2026
Receivers seeking the proceeds from a Chinese investment fraud will not recover their legal costs after a dispute over which law governs claims to billions of pounds in cryptocurrency seized by British police, a London judge ruled Friday.
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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 closed 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.