Health & safety prosecutions: Individual failings
Tom McNeill, Senior Associate at BCL Solicitors examines the responsibility and culpability of employers for the failings of their employees
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Prioritising business services roles is key to law firms’ recovery
Deborah Gray, founding director at Totum Partners, explains why this matters
The Serious Fraud Office: What’s on the horizon?
As the SFO operates under the shadow cast by independent reviews, BCL Financial Crime partner Richard Sallybanks and senior associate Anoushka Warlow examine where next for the beleaguered agency.
The War on Fraud
The public and private sectors need to work together in the fight against fraud says Charlie Sorensen, Senior Associate at Baker & Partners
Cladding crisis: hope in site?
Developers forced to face the music as the Government seeks to end the cladding crisis for thousands of innocent leaseholders by Gurpreet Sanghera Partner, Disputes Team Simkins LLP
England’s Lockdown Regulations: a Compressed History
As Sue Gray is set to publish her report into alleged law-breaking in 10 Downing Street during the Covid-19 lockdowns, John Binns, Partner at BCL Solicitors LLP examines how the law has evolved and which rules have applied since March 2020
Rising divorce rates in China – Infidelity no longer a cause for divorce
Deborah Jeff, Partner and Head of Family at Simkins LLP, examines how Chinese government changes to divorce law fly in the face of what is reasonable and tolerable.
David Boies: What Prince Andrew can expect in court from Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer
In a face-to-face interview in New York, before he was instructed by Virginia Giuffre Roberts, David Boies told Dominic Carman about his approach to litigation – from taking depositions and handling juries to dealing with hidden evidence and cross-examining witnesses
£1bn Recovered from Tax Fraud – Good News?
A recent HMRC press release trumpeted the £218m recovered by its Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) in 2020-21, taking its total for the five years since it was set up to just over £1bn. Harry Travers and John Binns, partners in the Financial Crime team at BCL Solicitors, ask if we really should be celebrating?
The rise of litigation funds in Jersey
Litigation funding is certainly a hot topic, as can be seen from the controversy surrounding the involvement of litigation funders in the now infamous divorce proceedings between Tatiana Akhmedova and her now ex-husband, oligarch Temur Akhmedov. Jersey is no different, with litigation funders becoming increasingly involved in all manner of disputes.
