12/1/2025 3:15:56 PM Justice on Trial: Are Juries Facing Extinction? By Katy Olley Four years. That’s how long some victims of sexual assault are waiting for their day in court. Defendants on remand are stuck in prison...
7/18/2025 2:29:49 PM AI: Why UK Firms Must Act Now By Alexander Vilardo According to UK Finance's 2025 Annual Fraud Report, over £1.2 billion was lost to fraud in 2024 alone. This figure has, at least in part,...
3/31/2025 1:12:13 PM FCA publishes its 2025-2030 strategy: what we can expect over the next 5 years By David Hamilton On 25 March, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its Strategy 2025-2030 with the straplines “Deepening Trust”, “Rebalancing...
2/20/2025 5:29:40 PM Reigning in jurisdictional overreach? Supreme Court clarifies double criminality and POCA's extraterritorial effect in El-Khouri v USA By Anthony Hanratty On 12 February 2025, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in El-Khouri v Government of the United States of America [2025] UKSC 3. In...
2/18/2025 3:20:21 PM When reliance isn’t compliance: A classic AML pitfall By David Hamilton This article was originally published by Compliance Monitor and i-law. The Arian Financial case underscores that third-party customer due...
1/22/2025 1:00:00 PM The Regulatory Gap in Deepfake Technology By Georgia Learoyd On 7 January 2025 the government announced that it will criminalise the making of sexually explicit deepfakes in its forthcoming Crime...
1/15/2025 5:17:25 PM INTERPOL publishes first Silver Notice By Anthony Hanratty In our previous article we wrote about INTERPOL's intention to launch a pilot scheme to implement Silver Notices and Diffusions. INTERPOL...
12/3/2024 11:17:55 AM Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence - Under the Radar? Think Again By David Hamilton The fraud enforcement landscape is undergoing significant change. With the Government's official guidance now published, businesses...
11/27/2024 5:13:48 PM Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence - Government Guidance By Kyle Phillips Alexander Vilardo On 6 November 2024, the UK Government published guidance to help organisations deal with the new "failure to prevent fraud" offence,...
7/9/2024 10:25:37 AM Landmark Court of Appeal judgment changes AML landscape in the UK By David Hamilton Fran Garvey The Court of Appeal handed down its landmark ruling in R (on the application of World Uyghur Congress) v National Crime Agency [2024]...
10/3/2023 8:51:09 AM The FCA claims another AML scalp By David Hamilton The Financial Conduct Authority has imposed another financial crime-related Final Notice; this time against ADM Investor Services...
4/14/2023 1:09:11 PM Failure to prevent fraud: a new corporate criminal offence By Ian Ryan Fran Garvey Georgia Learoyd After over a decade of calls for reform to corporate criminal liability, on 11 April 2023 the Government finally announced its intention...