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We are now two years into Nick Ephgrave's tenure at the helm of the Serious Fraud Office, a role which he vowed to use to put the previous failings of the SFO behind it...

The 2024 UK Food Crime Strategic Assessment highlights rising threats from insider knowledge abuse, economic pressures, and global disruptions, emphasizing the need for improved detection, multi-agency collaboration, and legislative changes.

Sanctions (including travel bans and asset freezes) are a tool of foreign policy where the UK, as an EU member, not only implemented EU laws, but also played a leading role in making them.

Welcome to BCL’s latest sanctions round-up, highlighting the key developments in UK and international sanctions

Partner John Binns and Principal Associate Alex Gorst examine significant developments in UK and international sanctions law, including new sectoral measures against Iran, proposed Israeli settlement sanctions, OFSI's £4.7 million Citibank penalty, and the US Treasury's intensified Operation Economic Outcast targeting Iranian networks.

While "beleaguered" may presently be an apt adjective for the UK's Serious Fraud Office ("SFO"), it does have the opportunity this year to demonstrate that it has learned (or at least will learn)...

The government has sought to give assurances to the Children's Commissioner about concerns that a child could be detained without notice to their parents.

The nature and the urgency of the current crisis meant that the provisions of the Coronavirus Act 2020 were rushed through Parliament with hardly any scrutiny at all.

As the UK's online safety legislation is finally brought into force, Megan Curzon outlines the key duties on in-scope services, Ofcom's regulatory priorities, its approach to enforcement and what lies ahead...

The government is consulting on legal changes that would assist the distribution of coronavirus and flu vaccines...

While expressly not making recommendations but detailing options for reform, which the Government must decide whether to implement, the Law Commission identifies twelve options...

The SFO DPA is the latest in a series of resolutions that AFWEL, now owned by the John Wood Group plc, has been able to achieve.

In the case of R (on the application of Maughan) (Appellant) v Her Majesty's Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire (Respondent) [2020] UKSC 46, the Supreme Court found, by a majority of three to two.

Does Chatham House see all lawyers as enablers of kleptocracy? A new report seems to suggest as much, but its recommendations are more conventional.

In the recent case of Barton and Booth v R [2020] EWCA Crim 575, a five-judge Court of Appeal has confirmed the test for dishonesty to be used in criminal cases. The law in this area had been in a state of...

Confiscation law can be hard to understand, even for lawyers.

BCL's latest sanctions round-up provides a comprehensive overview of recent UK and international developments in sanctions law, enforcement actions, and compliance requirements. This fortnightly summary examines new designations, licensing updates, and emerging trends that businesses and legal professionals need to monitor.