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21.03.19
Actress Tina Malone receives suspended sentence after breaching Venables/Thompson injunction
Actress, Tina Malone, has received an eight-month suspended prison sentence for purporting to publish a photograph and information relating to the new identity of Jon Venables – one of James Bulgar’s killers. Background In 1993 Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, at the time aged 10, were convicted of murdering two-year-old James Bulgar. It was a…
Read more16.09.18
Clarity on Legal Professional Privilege from the Court of Appeal
In The Director of The Serious Fraud Office v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Limited [2018] EWCA Civ 2006 the Court of Appeal was asked to determine whether certain documents created during the course of an internal company investigation were subject to legal professional privilege. In April 2013, the Serious Fraud Office (‘SFO’) commenced a criminal…
Read more6.05.17
Serious Fraud Office Deferred Prosecution Agreement with Tesco approved
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) have entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with Tesco Stores Ltd in relation to the overstating of profits in their 2014 accounts. This DPA follows similar agreements between the SFO and Standard Bank and Rolls-Royce Plc. The agreement was approved by the High Court on 10 April 2017 and makes…
Read more30.01.17
Serious Fraud Office agrees to defer prosecution of Rolls Royce plc
Following a four year investigation into corruption and bribery, the Serious Fraud Office (‘SFO’) have entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (‘DPA’) with Rolls Royce Plc, the global engineering giant. The agreement was approved by the High Court on 17 January 2017 and, in effect, allows Rolls Royce to account for its conduct without facing…
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