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Eugene Thuraisingam LLP | Singapore | 24 Jun 2021
The Law on Importation & Wilful Blindness - Accused Acquitted of Capital Charge
On 22 June 2021, the team at Eugene Thuraisingam LLP (comprising Eugene Thuraisingam, and Genghis Koh), as well as our former Partner Syazana Yahya…
FisherBroyles LLP | United Kingdom, USA | 20 Dec 2018
Government Achieves Another Round of Convictions in New England Compounding Center Case
In 2012, a nationwide meningitis outbreak caused by contaminated steroids killed 64 people and sickened nearly 800 others. Last week in a federal…
Gowling WLG | Canada | 16 Dec 2018
Supreme Court of Canada Bulletin
On appeal from a judgment of the Court of Appeal for Ontario (LaForme, Rouleau and Brown JJ.A.), 2017 ONCA 365, setting aside a decision of Guay J…
Winston & Strawn LLP | USA | 20 Jul 2018
Despite civil resolutions, six current and former fitbit employees face federal charges
On June 14, a grand jury in the Northern District of California indicted five former and one current employee of Fitbit for receiving and possessing…
McGuireWoods LLP | USA | 16 Jul 2018
Implications of Judge Kavanaugh’s Nomination for Criminal Sentencing
Imagine an individual who is convicted of fraudulently obtaining $5,000 but simultaneously acquitted by a jury of conspiring to fraudulently obtain $1…
Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC | USA | 21 Mar 2018
‘Menendez’ Decision Clarifies Issues In Public Corruption Cases
In white-collar criminal enforcement, attention has shifted in recent years from insider trading to high-profile cases of alleged The prosecution…
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP | Canada | 18 Dec 2017
Developments in white-collar & capital markets regulatory enforcement
Regulators continue to try to “move the needle” in their pursuit of insider trading and other white-collar misconduct. Notably, the first…
Corker Binning | United Kingdom | 4 Dec 2017
The Court of Appeal restrains an overzealous CPS
The Court of Appeal’s judgment in R. v. Reilly shows what can go badly wrong in a system of criminal justice which permits a State prosecutor to call…
Fisher Phillips | USA | 24 Aug 2017
Sorting Out Teamsters Acquittal In ‘Top Chef’ Case
Earlier this month, a federal jury acquitted four members of Teamsters Local 25 in Boston on charges of criminally threatening Padma Lakshmi, the host…
Dentons | Canada | 8 Aug 2017
Saskatchewan Court of Appeal confirms acquittal following workplace fatality in grain terminal
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal recently dismissed the crown's appeal of the acquittal of an employer in a case involving a worker who died of suffocation in a grain terminal. It found that while proof of an accident may be enough to establish the elements of the general charge that an employer failed to ensure the health and safety of an employee, where the crown has particularised a......
