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Following the Law Commission's recent report on the law relating to abusive and offensive online communications, BCL Partner Michael Drury considers ...

BCL associate Kate Chanter discusses the issues of defending against an accusation of sexual misconduct while at university and in university proceedings.

Our investigations and white collar crime team have commented on the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, featuring the new failure to prevent

This week saw the government's long-awaited introduction of a proposed new offence of "failure to prevent fraud" in amendments to the existing Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill.

Further Government amendments which have recently been made to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the "Bill") would expand the scope of the "identification doctrine"...

In May 2023, the government published the Fraud Strategy, which committed the government to launch an independent review into the operation of the disclosure regime in a digital age...

On October 28, 2014, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") announced that it has issued criminal proceedings against Noel Cryan, a former employee at Tullett Prebon Group Ltd, for the manipulation of LIBOR, which brings the number of individuals facing charges brought by the SFO for LIBOR manipulation to thirteen.

Third parties often find their assets entangled in confiscation orders. We specialise in representing interested parties, typically family members or business associates, who are inadvertently involved in confiscation proceedings.

The emergence of both Ireland and the United Kingdom as the legal systems of choice for the resolution of complex cross-border commercial disputes...

On 8 April 2020, the High Court of Justice in London overturned three Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) following applications by the respondents to those orders.

In this video, BCL partner John Binns explains the complex and often misleading nature of confiscation law under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 ("POCA").

In this video, Sam clarifies UK deportation laws related to criminal offences, discussing how sentence lengths impact deportation outcomes and key exceptions like private life, partner, and child considerations. He emphasizes the importance of early submissions to the Home Office for legal help

In any cross-border investigation, invariably suspects will be located in different jurisdictions or subject to investigations by authorities from different jurisdictions, or both.

On June 28th the UK Court of Appeal confirmed that payment of genuine value for goods received within a supply chain does not prevent companies from committing money laundering offences if the source of these goods...

The new Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) which received Royal Assent in October 2023 has made amendments to the previously introduced Economic Crime...

The white-collar defense, investigations and regulatory landscape is ever growing and evolving – and so too are the risks faced by individuals and corporations.

Federal Law No. 13,608 was published on January 11th, 2018, which authorizes States to create telephone hotlines, to be preferably accessed for free.

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 (the “Act”) extends the application of senior manager attribution provisions from economic crimes to all criminal offences.