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June 10, 2025
Ex-Sky Sports Host Gets 11-Year Director Ban Over £10M Debt
Former Sky Sports presenter Alan Bentley has been banned from running companies for 11 years after his football betting business collapsed with debts to investors of more than £10 million ($13.5 million), the Insolvency Service revealed Tuesday.
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June 09, 2025
German Court Convicts 1 In €23M Platinum Coin VAT Fraud
A German court has convicted one of the leaders of a criminal organization responsible for more than €23 million ($26.3 million) in evaded value-added taxes through its trade of platinum coins, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said.
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June 09, 2025
CPS Launches Plan To Return Lawyers To Criminal Practice
The Crown Prosecution Service is offering to support criminal lawyers to return to the workforce following a career break, as problems with recruitment and retention of solicitors and barristers continue to blight the justice system after decades of underinvestment.
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June 09, 2025
Lex Greensill Claims SoftBank Hid Deal With 'Code Of Silence'
Lex Greensill testified in a $440 million London trial Monday that SoftBank, a Japanese investment company, had designed a restructuring agreement involving his firm to avoid putting potential losses on its accounts in his first public appearance since his eponymous firm's collapse.
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June 09, 2025
Ex-Commerzbank Analyst Denies Faking Sex Assault Claims
A former Commerzbank analyst on Monday fought claims that he lied to a court by making false sexual assault allegations in his failed harassment case against the bank, telling a London court he was being truthful.
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June 09, 2025
Six Men Deny Tax Fraud Charges Over Payroll Outsourcing
Six individuals pleaded not guilty to tax fraud and money laundering charges at a criminal court in London on Monday as part of a sprawling multimillion-pound prosecution brought by HM Revenue and Customs into a payroll outsourcing business.
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June 07, 2025
Minister Calls For Bold Action To Tackle Court Backlogs
The government must take "bold" steps to implement lasting reforms to tackle persistent backlogs in the criminal courts and deteriorating court conditions, a minister warned on Saturday.
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June 06, 2025
Chancery Pauses Meta Privacy Suit For EU, Ireland Actions
A Delaware court on Friday paused a pension fund stockholder suit seeking documents on data privacy violations made by Meta Platforms Inc. that led to a €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) fine from European authorities.
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June 06, 2025
Reality TV Gallery Owner Gets 2½ Years On Terrorism Charges
An art gallery owner and reality TV art expert was sentenced to over two years' imprisonment at a London criminal court on Friday for failing to report his suspicions when selling around £140,000 ($189,400) worth of art to a suspected terrorist financier.
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June 06, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
The past week in London has seen MGM and the owners of the "Addams Family" trademark sue a private equity firm, two Cambridge colleges file for injunctions against Pro-Palestine student protest groups and a former NBA player brings a claim against Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
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June 06, 2025
Poor Productivity Driving Crown Court Backlog, Study Says
Poor productivity has been a "major factor" in the growth of the Crown Court's case backlog since the COVID-19 pandemic, an economic think tank said in a study published Friday.
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June 06, 2025
Darts Champ Banned As Director Over Unpaid £450K Tax Bill
A former darts world champion has been banned from running companies for five years after his business failed to pay more than £450,000 ($610,000) in tax, the Insolvency Service has revealed.
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June 06, 2025
EPPO Searches Portuguese City In Industrial Zone Probe
The European Public Prosecutor's Office has said it has carried out searches with local police as part of an ongoing fraud and corruption probe into the construction of the industrial zone of a city in northeastern Portugal.
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June 06, 2025
Switzerland Plans Tax Data Reporting For Crypto
The Swiss government said Friday that it has approved a plan to extend the automatic exchange of information for tax matters to apply to crypto-assets.
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June 06, 2025
From Russia With Love? UK Lawyers Mull Sanctions U-Turn
Finance companies are enlisting white-collar lawyers to draw up plans for tapping back into Russia if the U.S. breaks with its Western allies and eases sanctions, although experts warn that unpredictable political winds mean there are as many risks as opportunities.
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June 05, 2025
Meta Pressed By MPs Over Slow Removal Of Harmful Content
A group of influential MPs said Friday that they have written to Meta asking the Facebook-owner to explain its tardy responses to requests by the City watchdog for the removal of harmful content from financial influencers appearing on its platforms.
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June 05, 2025
UK Needs Modern Sanctions Rules, Ex-Lord Chancellor Warns
The U.K.'s sanctions regime is increasingly unfit for its purpose and must be reformed to tackle complex new forms of aggression such as cyberattacks and economic sabotage, the former lord chancellor urged Thursday.
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June 05, 2025
HMRC Loses £47M To Phishing Targeting PAYE Accounts
HM Revenue & Customs has detected phishing attacks on 100,000 taxpayer accounts, costing the revenue service £47 million ($64 million), the tax authority's new chief executive told members of Parliament.
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June 05, 2025
Trading Biz Can't Short Circuit Trial Against Former GC
A London judge said Thursday that a trading services company must go to trial to prove that its former general counsel misused confidential information, citing a possibility that the business abused the lawyer-client relationship.
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June 05, 2025
BHP Tries To Block Criminal Contempt Bid In £36B Dam Case
BHP urged a London judge on Thursday to throw out contempt proceedings that it has called "extraordinary" in a £36 billion ($50 billion) case over Brazil's worst environmental disaster, arguing that it would relitigate issues that had already been resolved.
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June 05, 2025
Credit Suisse Says Greensill Deals Left $440M Debt Unpaid
Greensill Capital coordinated with SoftBank to enter into "improper" transactions which caused Credit Suisse investors to lose $440 million in debt, a lawyer for a sub-fund for the collapsed Swiss bank told the first day of trial Thursday.
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June 05, 2025
Oligarch Can't Appeal Tossed $14B Asset-Stripping Claim
Imprisoned oligarch Ziyavudin Magomedov cannot challenge a decision to dismiss his $14 billion claim against Transneft, Rostatom, a private equity firm and other entities over an alleged Russian state-led conspiracy to strip his assets in two major port operators, a London appeals court has ordered.
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June 05, 2025
Ex-Solicitor Charged With Defrauding Clients Out Of £137K
A former solicitor and part-time judge appeared at a London criminal court on Thursday accused of defrauding more than a dozen clients by appropriating at least £137,000 ($186,000) in payments to himself.
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June 05, 2025
JPMorgan Blocks VTB's Russian Case Over Frozen $156M
JPMorgan won its fight on Thursday to block VTB Bank from bringing a $156 million case in Russia over frozen funds, as a London court ruled that the Russian lender's claims were "vexatious and oppressive."
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June 05, 2025
UK Ransomware Ban Could Boost Cost Of Cyber-Insurance
The cost of buying cyber-insurance for the public sector and critical infrastructure could rise significantly because of a proposed ban on paying ransomware demands, experts warn, as the U.K. government looks at ways to disrupt the income of online criminals.
Expert Analysis
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Key Points From Cayman's Beneficial Ownership Regime
While recent expansion of the Cayman Islands Beneficial Ownership Act's scope means it now encompasses many entities with previously minimal obligations, the changes ensure a welcome level playing field with workable alternative routes to compliance, says Lucy Frew at Walkers Global.
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HMRC Transfer Pricing Guide A Vital Resource For Businesses
HM Revenue & Customs' recent guidelines on common transfer pricing compliance risks should be required reading for affected businesses in indicating HMRC's expected benchmark for documents and policies, say Tomoko Ikawa and Kapisha Vyas at Simmons & Simmons.
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How UK Digital Regulation Under Labour May Differ From EU
Although details on the Labour government's data and cyber resilience reforms are currently limited, there are indications that proposed legislation and a lack of AI-specific legislation signal divergence from the European Union's approach, say lawyers at Deloitte.
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Insights From FRC's Report On Good Corporate Governance
Although the Financial Reporting Council’s recent report on private companies opting to follow the Wates principles has identified improvements, it is important for organizations to provide transparent disclosures and avoid boilerplate, tickbox filings, says Tessa Hastie at BCLP.
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What To Know About The UK Overseas Funds Regime
The U.K.’s overseas funds regime is now open for applications, providing a simplified way of offering a foreign fund to U.K. retail investors, and the Financial Conduct Authority's clear policy statement on implementation should ease the transition process from the existing scheme, say lawyers at Dechert.
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5 Cyber Risk Tips For Lawyers Contracting Cloud Services
With the U.K. government's recent announcement of a forthcoming cybersecurity bill, and the European Union's imminent deadline to transpose the second Network and Information Systems Directive into national law, it is important for in-house lawyers to be alive to potential risks when contracting for cloud services, say lawyers at Addleshaw Goddard.
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Takeaways From SRA Consumer Protection Review
While the Solicitors Regulation Authority prepares to announce its findings later this year following its consumer protection consultation, the topic of handling client funds is very much alive in the legal industry, with polarizing views on what should happen as a result of the review, says Claire Van Der Zant at Shieldpay.
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Reflecting On 12 Months Of The EU Foreign Subsidy Regime
New European Commission guidance, addressing procedural questions and finally providing clarity on “distortion” in merger control and public procurement, offers an opportunity to reflect on the year since foreign subsidy notification obligations were introduced, say lawyers at Fried Frank.
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The Road Ahead For Tokenized Investment Funds In The UK
With an HM Treasury working group expected to release the final phase of a road map for tokenized investment funds by the end of the year, Andrew Tsang and Tom Bacon at BCLP discuss the advantages for investors and fund administrators, the proposed model for implementation, and what the regulatory landscape may look like.
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Review Of EU Cross-Border Merger Regs' Impact On Irish Cos.
Looking back on the year since the European Union Mobility Directive was transposed into Irish law, enabling Irish and European Economic Area limited liability companies to participate in cross-border deals, it is clear that restructuring options available to Irish companies with EU operations have significantly expanded, say lawyers at Matheson.
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Integrating ESG Into Risk Management Programs
Amid increasing regulations and reporting requirements for corporate sustainability in the European Union and the U.S., companies might consider how to incorporate environmental, social and governance factors into more formalized risk management, say directors at Alvarez & Marsal.
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The EU AI Act's Influence Around The World
Although the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act's implementation will be staggered over the next six years, we are already witnessing its authority across the world, with legislators in other countries drawing inspiration from its sector-agnostic approach, say lawyers at Paul Weiss.
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Lawyers' Role In Decarbonizing The Global Economy Is Vital
Businesses can future-proof themselves against climate risks by incorporating science-based language into legal documents, but lawyers must understand how their legal work intersects with advising on climate risks and decarbonization opportunities, says Humzah Khan at The Chancery Lane Project.
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A Look At UK, EU And US Cartel Enforcement Trends
The European Union, U.K. and U.S. competition agencies' recently issued joint statement on competition risks in generative artificial intelligence demonstrates increased cross-border collaboration on cartel investigations, meaning companies facing investigations in one jurisdiction should anticipate related investigations in other jurisdictions, say lawyers at Latham & Watkins.
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Testing The Limits Of English Courts' Pro-Arbitration Stance
Although the Court of Appeal recently upheld a $64 million arbitration award in Eternity Sky v. Zhang, the judgment offers rare insight into when the English courts’ general inclination to enforce arbitral awards may be outweighed by competing policy interests such as consumer rights, say Declan Gallivan and Peter Morton at K&L Gates.