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NatWest has been ordered to pay nearly £4.3m in costs incurred by the Financial Conduct Authority since 2017, after pleading guilty to breaching money laundering rules. According to the decision, the FCA is said to have generated £1,770,131 in internal costs and £2,527,335 in external ones between 2017/18 and 2021/22. The British bank, represented by […]
Financier Worldwide regularly bring together leading experts from around the world to discuss issues at the centre of their audiences’ interest. Shoosmiths were invited to contribute to the November 2021 roundtable which covers the significant, ongoing challenge many companies face: corporate fraud.
McDermott Will & Emery has snagged a disputes partner from Paul Hastings, in its latest London hire this year. Simon Airey joins McDermott’s dispute resolution practice after just over three years at Paul Hastings. He joined the US firm in 2017 from DLA Piper. Airey is a corporate crime and investigations partner, who was brought […]
Seven top sets of barristers’ chambers have agreed to fund pupillages that would have been otherwise cancelled due to Covid-19. They follow in the wake of Keating Chambers, which put forward £20,000 in the summer to help fund a criminal Bar pupillage in a bid to offset the financial impact of the pandemic on the […]
A complex crime and fraud set has taken the decision to pause pupillage recruitment due to the pandemic. Red Lion Chambers will not be recruiting any pupils for its September 2022 cohort, with its programme re-opening in October 2021 for its 2023 cohort. The set said the pandemic has meant it has had to extend […]
Having regularly been instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), QEB Hollis Whiteman’s William Boyce QC (Call 1967; Silk 2001) was again instructed after Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska unsuccessfully attempted to privately prosecute his former business partner Vladimir Chernukhin. Deripaska was challenging the decision of the CPS to discontinue the investigation into Chernukhin, claiming that […]
In almost two decades as a barrister, Kenworthy’s Chambers Sally Penni (Call 2000) has spent much of her time shining a light on the lack of diversity at the Bar. She has spoken at events, hosted podcast episodes and spoken at schools. Her work saw her make the Queen’s Birthday Honours this year, in which […]
A criminal law firm has launched a “game-changing” stop and search app, that lets users record and store interactions with the police and automatically uploads it onto a remote server. The Legal Lifelines app lets users record footage of their interactions with police when stopped and searched at the press of a button. The videos […]
Keating Chambers has put forward £20,000 to help fund a criminal bar pupillage, in a bid to offset the financial impact of the pandemic on the criminal bar. The one-off fund will support one pupillage for an aspiring criminal barrister. Construction set Keating has pledged the money for a set that has had to withdraw […]
A career as a lawyer never crossed Sailesh Mehta’s mind when he was growing up on a Barnet council estate. He and his brother were both destined to work in a factory after finishing school at Ravenscroft Secondary School – now known as Totteridge Academy. It was not to be. Mehta instead went to study […]
Despite two successful convictions in the Unaoil bribery case, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) will now conduct an internal review after its head Lisa Osofsky was criticised by the judge over dealings with an intermediary. In a ruling made public on Monday, Judge Martin Beddoe rebuked Osofsky for making herself vulnerable to flattery during the […]
A seven-strong team of barristers have left Wilberforce Barristers Chambers in Hull to set up a new family and criminal set in the city. Crown Chambers was launched this month, with Wilberforce’s Naomi Madderson heading up the set. She is joined by six other barristers in the Hull-headquartered family law chambers. Madderson is joined at […]