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Investigations Newsletter: Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison 

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Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison - On November 18, 2022, former Theranos CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison for defrauding investors regarding Theranos’ blood...more

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Potential reforms to the UK’s model for criminal liability: should we be concerned?

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On 10 June 2022, the Law Commission published its long awaited paper setting out ten options that are available to the Government for reform of the common law principles governing corporate criminal liability in the UK. In...more

Morgan Lewis

UK High Court Imposes Custodial Sentence for Contempt

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In XL Insurance Company SE v. IPORS Underwriting Ltd, Paul Alan Corcoran & Others [2021] EWHC 1407 (Comm), Mrs. Justice Cockerill DBE imposed an immediate maximum sentence of two years’ imprisonment following an application...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Financial Conduct Authority Announces Its First Criminal Prosecution Under The UK Money Laundering Regulations

The FCA has announced its first criminal prosecution under the UK’s Money Laundering Regulations. This is undoubtedly a very significant development for the FCA and should be seen as a warning to firms within scope of the...more

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Final Defendant Sentenced in UK Regulator's Prosecution of £2.8m Investment Fraud

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The final defendant in an investment fraud case has been sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment following "Operation Tidworth", the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority's largest and one of its most complex fraud investigations to...more

K&L Gates LLP

Health and Safety Sentencing Guidelines – Emerging Trends One Year On

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Since the new Health and Safety Sentencing Guidelines (the “Guidelines”) were implemented in February 2016, a series of headline-making fines have been handed out by the Health and Safety Executive (the “HSE”). Balfour...more

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The UK’s second DPA: a hopeful judgment

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The approval of the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) between the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and XYZ Limited (XYZ) by Leveson LJ on 8 July 2016 has generated much breathless commentary, not least because it is only the...more

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The Inside Scoop: What does Tabernula tell us about the future of criminal insider dealing enforcement in the UK?

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The high-profile insider trading prosecution dubbed “Operation Tabernula”, brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), has this month secured two further convictions. After a 12-week trial, Martyn Dodgson and Andrew...more

K&L Gates LLP

Workplace Safety in the U.K. - Multi-Million Dollar Fines for Workplace Safety Offences by Companies - New U.K. Sentencing...

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Accidents do sometimes happen, even in well-run factories and construction sites. Where there has been an accident in the U.K., companies face prosecution by the Health & Safety Executive (“HSE”) in the criminal courts...more

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Companies Beware! New Sentencing Guidelines for Health & Safety and Food Hygiene Offences

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On 1 February 2016, new guidelines on the sentencing of health and safety and food offences (Health and Safety Offences, Corporate Manslaughter and Food Safety and Hygiene Offences Definitive Guidelines the “Guidelines”) came...more

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UK Regulators Address Manipulation of Trading Benchmarks and Other Misconduct

Concluding a year-long review, UK regulators issued the final report of the Fair and Effective Markets Review Committee last week, making a number of recommendations intended to restore confidence in the trading markets for...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Deferred Prosecution Deals and Sentencing Guidelines Come to the UK: How Will They Work in Bribery and Corruption Cases?

Although the perceived slow pace of investigations and prosecutions by the Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") has come in for a great deal of commentary and criticism, it does appear that the SFO is slowly but surely ramping up its...more

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