As the use of litigation funding continues to grow, an increasing number of lawyers and business leaders are beginning to realise the obvious benefits afforded by legal finance solutions. Below Lawyer Monthly hears from Andrew Jones, Managing Director at Vannin Capital and Tim Allen, Partner at PwC, on the many advantages of financing legal operations. […]
Both Justitia Advisory Ltd in Cyprus and Bahas, Gramatidis & Partners in Greece have a long tradition of providing quality services to foreign clients when they face legal issues in these countries. Further, through the extensive international legal network of the World Law Group, of which Bahas, Gramatidis & Partners is a member, they are […]
Fabio Humar is the Director of the firm Fabio Humar Abogados. With over 10 years’ experience in financial criminal litigation and white collar crimes, Fabio’s experience is supported by an interdisciplinary team with more than a decade in public positions, among them Delegate Prosecutor for Financial Crimes. He speaks with Lawyer Monthly about how he […]
Media is rife that Nirav Modi, an Indian billionaire jeweller, has fled India and is now seeking political asylum in the UK, following allegations of a gigantic fraud. Below Rahul Batra of Hudson McKenzie explains how this has led to a chain of similar cases and developed a form of ‘Quit India Movement’ with a […]
For a time, the cryptocurrency market has embodied a new “Wild West” for traders. Characterised by mayhem and disorder, we’ve seen a gold rush from traders looking to strike lucky off the back of the meteoric rise of currencies such as Bitcoin – it has been a case of ‘get involved first, figure out what […]
Banks may be forced to pay a further £18bn to consumers in payment protection insurance (PPI) claims ahead of the August 2019 deadline, following miscalculations by the Financial Conduct Authority. As banks begin to issue letters on PPI to consumers, legal precedent could see potential payouts soar, according to research from barristers’ chambers St John’s […]
Following the release of the Q1 2018 Insolvency Service insolvency statistics, Richard Haymes, Head of Financial Difficulties at TDX Group, calls for stricter rules when promoting insolvency services online. The figures released by the Insolvency Service, showing an increase in both company and personal insolvencies, support our expectation that the number of individual voluntary arrangements […]
Charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office against Barclays were recently dismissed. Below Dominic Carman, noted legal commentator, discusses the implications for the SFO. More bad news for the UK’s Serious Fraud Office – this time in relation to its five-year investigation into Barclays Bank and its refinancing during the global financial crisis. This protracted […]
The number of fines handed out for money laundering and terrorist financing rule breaches has fallen 20% in the last year as tougher enforcement delivers a wake-up call, anti-money laundering and Big Data specialist Fortytwo Data reveals. It follows record enforcement in 2015/16 when 1,170 professionals - including lawyers, accountants and those in the gambling […]
The introduction of HMRC’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT programme, scheduled for April 2019, will bring a fundamental change to the way that businesses submit VAT returns. To ensure that they are able to fully comply with the new rules and to avoid potential fines for filing returns incorrectly, it is essential for organisations […]
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