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Client Alert: UK Supreme Court Decision in R v Hayes/Palombo

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Last week the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced that, as a result of the UK Supreme Court's decision in R v Hayes/Palombo, a number of convictions arising from allegations of manipulation of well-known key...more

Mayer Brown

Eye on Economic Crime: New Strict Liability Corporate Criminal Offence of Failure to Prevent Fraud Comes Into Effect

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1 September 2025 marks the day that the new strict liability corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent fraud comes into effect. From today onwards, corporate entities can be held criminally liable for failing to...more

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Eye on Economic Crime: HMRC Brings Forward First Corporate Prosecution Under Failure to Prevent Tax Evasion Offence

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On 11 August 2025, HM Revenue & Customs ("HMRC") initiated its first corporate prosecution under the failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion offence, which was introduced by the Criminal Finances Act 2017.  Bennett...more

K&L Gates LLP

UK CPS and SFO Issue Updated Corporate Prosecution Guidance: What Corporates Need to Know

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) have jointly updated their Corporate Prosecutions Guidance (the Guidance), providing clarification on their expectations for organisations in relation to...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

UK Authorities Revamp Joint Corporate Prosecution Guidance

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On 18 August 2025, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced the updated version of the joint guidance in relation to the prosecution of corporate entities (the “Guidance”). The...more

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UK Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence to Come into Force - Is Your Organisation Prepared?

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The new strict liability corporate criminal offence of Failure to Prevent Fraud (FTPF) comes into effect in England and Wales on 1 September 2025. ...more

Nossaman LLP

Compliance Notes - Vol. 6, Issue 17 - August 2025

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RECENT LOBBYING, ETHICS & CAMPAIGN FINANCE UPDATES Campaign Finance & Lobbying Compliance New York: Brooklyn construction executive Erden Arkan was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay $27,500 in fines and...more

Cozen O'Connor

NAAG 2025 Presidential Initiative Summit: Building on Opioid Litigation Success to Tackle Evolving Drug Threats

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This year’s NAAG Presidential Initiative Summit held August 5-6, 2025 in Portsmouth, NH, was hosted by New Hampshire AG and NAAG President John Formella, brought together state AGs, law enforcement officials, federal...more

J.S. Held

Understanding India’s Evolving Legal and Regulatory Framework for Combating Financial Fraud

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Introduction - Financial fraud represents a persistent threat to economic stability, undermining trust among businesses, investors, and the general public. As India’s financial ecosystem expands and transactions become...more

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“Reconciliation Is Better”

The Dubai public prosecution has launched an initiative to improve the dispute resolution process in the Emirate. The “Reconciliation is Better” initiative has been introduced in order to promote the resolution of disputes...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

New State-Level Anti-Kickback Statute Expands Minnesota AG’s Power to Prosecute Healthcare Fraud

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On May 23, 2025, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed the Human Services omnibus policy bill into law, which included in part, the addition of a new statutory provision in the state’s criminal code, Chapter 609....more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

New York Legislature Passes Medical Aid in Dying Bill Without a Residency Requirement

New York is poised to become the twelfth state in the country to authorize medical aid in dying with a physician’s prescription for lethal medication to be self-administered by the patient. On June 9, 2025, the New York...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Updates on Environmental Criminal Law in France

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Environmental criminal law in France has developed steadily over the past several years. Recently, however, there has been a shift of the political narrative — both in Europe and domestically — toward simplification rather...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 12, 2025

Welcome to 10 For 10, the podcast that brings you the week’s Top 10 compliance stories in one podcast each week. Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings to you, the compliance professional, the compliance stories you need to...more

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Pennsylvania Enacts New Digital Forgery Law

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On July 7, 2025, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro enacted a new Digital Forgery Law by signing SB 649 into law, which will take effect in 60 days. SB 649 creates “new criminal penalties for anyone who uses artificial...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Today in Needlessly Cruel and Silly News: Alabama Hemp Law Soon to End Availability of Popular CBD Products to Pets

During the course of the most recent session when the Alabama Legislature gutted Alabama’s consumable hemp program, I had the opportunity to hear from certain individuals with thoughtful, nuanced views on the pros and cons of...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Justice Rushed Is Justice Denied: Why Alabama’s Attorney General Can Show Wisdom Rather Than Power on Hemp

One of my favorite quotes from Justice Potter Stewart (naturally, a Supreme Court justice writing about watching pornography is my favorite) is “[f]airness is what justice really is.” The Alabama attorney general has an...more

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EU sanctions enforcement is on the rise

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A clear trend is emerging: Across the EU, authorities are intensifying the enforcement of EU sanctions, and it is anticipated that the prosecution of related criminal offenses will increase. As a result, the regulatory...more

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TAKE IT DOWN Act Targets Deepfakes: Are Online Platforms Caught in the Crosshairs?

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The TAKE IT DOWN Act, recently signed into federal law, criminalizes the distribution of nonconsensual intimate imagery and requires covered online platforms to implement a notice-and-removal process by May 19, 2026....more

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Washington State Broadly Criminalizes All Malicious Deepfakes, Expanding on Existing Deepfake Regulation

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On April 16, Washington state added a new law to the growing patchwork of state, federal and international laws aimed at curbing the malicious use of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated deepfakes. ...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Akin Intelligence - April 2025

On May 19, 2025, President Trump signed the bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act into law. The Act criminalizes the publication of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions of individuals, including AI-generated deepfakes. Threats to...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Take it Down Act Signed into Law, Offering Tools to Fight Non-Consensual Intimate Images and Creating a New Image Takedown...

Law establishes national prohibition against nonconsensual online publication of intimate images of individuals, both authentic and computer-generated. First federal law regulating AI-generated content....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Bipartisan Take It Down Act Becomes Law

On Monday, May 19, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the “Take It Down Act” into law. The Act, which unanimously passed the Senate and cleared the House in a 409-2 vote, criminalizes the distribution of intimate images of...more

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Covered Platforms Face Strict Deadlines Under the Take It Down Act

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A new federal law criminalizes nonconsensual intimate imagery and gives covered websites, mobile applications, and other online platforms merely 48 hours to comply with requests to take down such materials. On May 19, 2025,...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

The Bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act Is Now Federal Law

President Donald Trump has signed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a new federal law aimed at curbing the spread of non-consensual AI-generated pornography. The law makes it a criminal offense to create or share explicit deepfake images...more

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