Gavin Irwin contributes to LexisNexis Corporate Crime Analysis, first published by LexisNexis on 16 November 2022. The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation’s (OFSI) fifth Annual Review (the Review), for the period April 2021 to August 2022, was published on 10 November 2022 and, inevitably, describes much of OFSI’s recent work in reaction to Russia’s […]
Brian O’Neill KC has been instructed by The Football Association to present the case against the Brentford footballer Ivan Toney who has been charged by The FA with more than 200 breaches of The FA’s rules prohibiting footballers from betting on matches. Press coverage: The Guardian | BBC News Brian has previously been instructed by […]
The Court of Appeal is clearly frustrated. As it observed, “An inquest remains an inquisitorial and relatively summary process. It is not a surrogate public inquiry. The range of coroners’ cases that have come before the High Court and Court of Appeal in recent years indicate that those features are being lost in some instances […]
We are all familiar with the headlines, “More than £20 million in cash and assets has been taken from criminals operating in Kent over the past five years, with close to £8 million taken across 2021”[1], and with the figures, “In 2020/21 [the SFO obtained] confiscation orders in the value of £5,629,497.06 and received Confiscation […]
Lescost Transport were charged under section 3(1) and 33(1)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the allegation relating to the injury of an individual who was attempting to deal with an unsecured load on one of its double-decker trailers. Lescost operates a haulage service across the UK and is part of United […]
