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Many British people travel abroad on holiday and give little thought to the laws and the legal system of the country they are visiting, assuming that everything is probably the same as at home

Antitrust & Competition, Government Investigations, Government Investigations & White Collar Criminal Defense, antitrust, competition, white-collar

Josh Ray of financial crime specialists Rahman Ravelli sees this as a reminder of the importance of compliance.

Welcome to the latest edition of the Crime & Fraud Briefing which focuses on the topical areas of anonymity in criminal proceedings and the new fraud strategy...

The UK Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, announced earlier this week that the UK Government plans to set up a new National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) to be hosted within the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).

The Ministry of Justice has today announced that the offences created by the Bribery Act 2010, including the new corporate offence, will all come into force together in April 2011.

The money, amounting to £3.2m, was stolen through a fraudulent electronic transaction last week, according to Ryanair.

The penalties for bribery are particularly severe for those involved in supplying goods and services to the public sector.

Aberaeron is perhaps not the first place anyone would associate with controversy of any kind, let alone arguments about racial hatred.

The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) is set to more than double the number of staff at the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), which is based within it.

With digitalisation, the possibility of online scams by cybercriminals is becoming increasingly common. One of the main practices carried out by these individuals...

A conference to assess the most significant issues in corporate crime has been organised by Rahman Ravelli.

In the second case of its kind, Lion Steel Ltd has been charged with corporate manslaughter following the death of an employee.

A woman of previous good character faced imprisonment after causing serious injury through dangerous driving on a dual carriageway, with no memory of the collision itself. Despite the severity of the injuries caused and the risk of a custodial sentence, comprehensive mitigation evidence—including her remorse, exemplary driving record, personal injuries sustained, and participation in a clinical trial to help other collision victims—persuaded the judge to impose a community order instead.

Another area that can lead to problems is not understanding the local laws and inadvertently breaching them.

The UK Bribery Act came into force on 1 July 2011.

The acquittal of three former Barclays executives marks the end of the UK's first-ever trial of senior bank figures for actions that they took in the financial crisis.

BCL partner, Richard Sallybanks writes for Law 360 examining the case between the U.K. Serious Fraud Office and Tesco Stores Limited