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UK Court of Appeal Rules NCA’s Refusal to Investigate Cotton Imports From Uyghur Region Unlawful

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The ruling propels UK law enforcement to increase its investigative powers under POCA, and businesses to enhance their supply chain due diligence. On 27 June 2024, the UK Court of Appeal found that the National Crime...more

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UK Criminal Enforcement Update - Spring 2024

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Recent weeks have seen several notable developments in the UK criminal enforcement landscape...more

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‘One eye across the Atlantic’ - The UK SFO Director’s Maiden Speech and Recent Visits to the United States Underscore the...

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The Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Nick Ephgrave QPM, delivered his maiden public speech on February, 13, 2024, closely followed by visits to key financial centres in the United States to meet with...more

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Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 41

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FTC Finalizes Settlement with 1Health.io For Allegations It Failed to Protect Customers’ DNA Data - On September 6, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission’s agreement with the genetic testing firm 1Health.io Inc. – formerly...more

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The Continued Restricted Use of Information Obtained via Mutual Legal Assistance Request

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On 4 November 2022, in the case of FCA v Papadimitrakopoulos & Gryparis1 , the UK High Court reaffirmed the principle that information obtained via Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) requests can only be used for the purpose for...more

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The UK’s economic crime enforcement gap: the merits of a new funding proposal

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On 24 January 2022, the anti-corruption campaign group Spotlight on Corruption published a report on the state of economic crime enforcement in the UK (the “Report”). The Report warns that “the UK is currently losing the...more

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United Kingdom – no INTERPOL Yellow Notice requested in missing person case of Leah Croucher, part 2 of 2

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In the previous post, we considered why local authorities had not sought a Yellow Notice in the case of Milton Keynes resident Leah Croucher. Ms. Croucher disappeared when she was 19 years old and has now beein missing since...more

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United Kingdom – INTERPOL’s Yellow Notices, and why not every missing person becomes the subject of one

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I recently ran across this article by journalist Sally Murrer. The author does a sound job of parsing out the differences between a case of a domestic investigation regarding a missing person versus that of an international...more

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Key Takeaways | Cryptocurrency Global Tax Enforcement: What Investors and Companies in the Industry Need to Know NOW

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During a recent program discussing the latest government enforcement efforts related to cryptocurrency, we spoke with Gary Alford, one of the leading Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents in their crypto enforcement efforts,...more

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[Webinar] Cryptocurrency Global Tax Enforcement: What Investors and Companies in the Industry Need to Know NOW - June 28th, 12:00...

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Following the US Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) announcement of “Operation Hidden Treasure,” companies and individuals should prepare for increased scrutiny of virtual currency transactions. Unveiled in March, the operation...more

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Bribery Act 2010: Ten Years On

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Ten years have passed since the introduction of the UK’s primary anti-corruption law, the Bribery Act 2010 (“the Act”). This article examines the extent to which the Act has lived up to its billing as the international “gold...more

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Dealing with Account Freezing and Account Forfeiture Orders

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In January 2018, UK law enforcement agencies were granted new powers to pursue the forfeiture of assets. Unexplained wealth orders ("UWOs") initially grabbed the media's attention, but the relative ease with which UK law...more

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Compliance Perspectives: Ethics and Policing in the UK

It’s not everyday that a Chief Constable joins the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, let alone one who is the United Kingdom’s police national lead for ethics. So when Richard Lewis signed up we invited him to sit...more

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[Webinar] Transatlantic Law Enforcement: The U.S.-UK Data Access Agreement - November 12th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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The UK-US Bilateral Data Sharing Agreement (Agreement) came into force from over the Summer. In certain circumstances it enables law enforcement in the UK and U.S. to seek domestic court orders to require production of data...more

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Data Sharing Without Borders

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UK law enforcement can now obtain an order against a person in or operating in the US for the production of or access to electronic data under a new ‘landmark’ US-UK data sharing agreement. The agreement has been heralded...more

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US signs CLOUD Act agreements with Australia and the United Kingdom

CEP Magazine, December 2019 - The US forged two agreements in the span of a week regarding the sharing of electronic data for law enforcement purposes with the governments of Australia and the UK. The agreements help each...more

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The CLOUD Act - A cross-border data access agreement rises from the fog

On October 3, 2019, the United States and the United Kingdom entered into the world’s first ever agreement (the Agreement) under the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (the CLOUD Act), the text of which has now become...more

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US Signs First Bilateral Data Sharing Agreement Under the CLOUD Act

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The Department of Justice announced yesterday that the United States and the United Kingdom have entered into the first of the international executive agreements authorized under the Clarifying Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD)...more

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Actual Impact of 2018 U.S. CLOUD Act Still Hazy

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Over a year following enactment of the U.S. “Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data” or CLOUD Act, significant questions remain unanswered about the law and its potential impact on global investigations involving cloud stored...more

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Blog: UK law enforcement powers stretch even further overseas – with worrying implications

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A recent piece of unheralded legislation, the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Act 2019 (COPOA), has provided UK law enforcement with significantly extended powers to compel the production of electronic data stored...more

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UK Plaintiff – a White, Straight Man Not Selected for a Job – Prevails in Discrimination Claim

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I’m sure readers saw the title of this article and thought “what!? White straight men are the most represented group in businesses!” Nonetheless, an employment tribunal in the United Kingdom recently held that a strong...more

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SAR Reform: The Case of Causey and its Effect

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The UK Government kicked off the New Year with a reminder that tackling economic crime remains top of its agenda. The Home Secretary and Chancellor announced last week that they will chair the new "Economic Crime Strategic...more

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A New Sheriff in Town? UK MPs Call for Regulation of “Wild West” Crypto-assets

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The House of Commons Treasury Committee has published its recommendations for the regulation of crypto-assets in the UK. Key Points: ..The House of Commons Treasury Committee has proposed that the UK government should...more

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How UK may be forced out of Europol

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Last week the UK government announced plans to launch a new national economic crime centre (NECC), which promises to tackle ‘the most serious cases of economic crime’. This is a grand promise. Originally published in The...more

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Criminal justice: How best to stop economic crime

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Speaking at the 35th annual Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Robert Buckland QC MP, the Solicitor General for England and Wales, and David Green QC, Director of the SFO, addressed the question, “Preventing...more

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