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Can you lack integrity without being dishonest?

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 16 2011

An odd decision was published in a recent FSA Final Notice that found a firm and one of its individual accountants acted without integrity but not dishonestly

Directors & officers beware the SFO gets serious

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 3 2012

Following the collapse of various high profile cases and the subsequent inquiry into its practices, change is clearly rife at the Serious Fraud Office

Freezing orders and fortification of cross-undertakings

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 12 2010

On 21 May 2010, Justice Floyd handed down his judgment in Bloomsbury International Ltd (in administration) v Mark Alan Holyoake

Treasury plans reduction in burden of the money laundering regulations by decriminalisation

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 20 2011

HM Treasury has recently proposed amendments to the Money Laundering Regulations to encourage a risk based approach to anti money laundering compliance and thereby reduce the regulatory burden on SMEs

A corporation’s claim in negligence against its auditors was not precluded in principle by the ex turpi causa non oritur actio maxim

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 28 2007

Moore Stephens (MS) were auditors of the claimant company (S&R) between 1996 and 1998

Where an individual’s fraud activity is attributed to the company, the company cannot bring a claim based on the fraud, so the maxim ex turpi causa non oritur actio will apply

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 19 2008

Stone & Rolls (S&R) commenced a claim against its auditors Moore Stephens (MS