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Corporate and Financial Crime News

Paul Wakerley represents care home manager charged in connection with the death of a patient

QEB HW member Paul Wakerley represents the manager of a residential care home who is prosecuted for failing to take reasonable care for the health and safety of others after a patient fell down a stairway at the home and died from his injuries. Read media...

David Spens QC represents senior partner of commercial City solicitors firm in successful appeal against conviction of money laundering in the Court of Appeal (R v D)

David Spens QC successfully appeals the money laundering conviction of the senior partner of a small firm of commercial solicitors accused of laundering US$1.2m.

Zoe Johnson QC and Paul Raudnitz instructed in landmark Deferred Prosecution Agreement case - "SFO v XYZ Ltd"

Zoe Johnson QC and Paul Raudnitz have today concluded a landmark hearing before Sir Brian Leveson, the President of the Queen's Bench Division, in which the Court approved what is only the second Deferred Prosecution Agreement in England and Wales. The...

Prosecution offer no evidence after complainant's evidence discredited in fraud and money laundering trial

QEB Hollis Whiteman member Ben FitzGerald represented a former Chief Operating Officer and fellow member Polly Dyer represented her partner, who were charged with fraud and money laundering respectively. The case concerned the payment of recruitment fees by...

Jason Mansell Comments on Operation Tabernula verdict

Jason Mansell comments on Operation Tabernula verdicts. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-09/ex-deutsche-bank-broker-among-two-guilty-in-insider-trading-case ...

Rhys Meggy defends engineering multinational

Rhys Meggy represented a well-known electrical engineering multinational prosecuted by the Environment Agency in relation to environmental and health and safety failings. The company pleaded guilty after a three year investigation. The allegations arose from...

Three members of QEB Hollis Whiteman act for the prosecution in the trial of a sham marriage arranger and benefits fraudster.

Paul Raudnitz, Kerry Broome and Caoimhe Daly prosecuted a six strong gang of benefits fraudsters led by Amankou Ndoli, the frauds involved falsely obtaining NI numbers and arranging sham marriages to facilitate the fraud. The gang were sentenced to 17 years...

Polly Dyer appointed chair of Female Fraud Forum

QEB Hollis Whiteman member Polly Dyer has been appointed chair of the Female Fraud Forum, an association aimed at solicitors, barristers and accountants who work in financial regulation and the criminal and civil fraud sector. Its purpose is to foster,...

Rachna Gokani co-authors new guide Bribery: Law and Practice

A new work on bribery, Bribery: Law and Practice is published by Oxford University Press in March 2016. QEB Hollis Whiteman co-authored the book with leading expert Monty Raphael QC, Special Counsel at solicitors Peters and Peters. The book provides a...

QEB Hollis Whiteman members involved in Operation Tabernula trial

Three members of QEB Hollis Whiteman were directly involved in what was called the most high-profile trial of insider dealing prosecuted by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to date.

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