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The Solid Surface Shop UK Ltd (‘the company’), was recently prosecuted by Health and Safety for failing to comply with an Improvement Notice. Timothy Thompson of Kangs Solicitors briefly discusses the case. The Circumstances | Kangs Health and Safety Solicitors Upon inspection, Health and Safety Officers found extensive build-up of dust around the company’s premises. […]

Prosecutions of those guilty of committing the offence of false accounting are now regularly reported in the press given that prosecuting authorities are concerned to tackle the ever increasing volume of offences that are committed. False accounting encompasses the tampering with any record retained for financial purposes whether the purpose is, for example, the preparation […]

Cheating the Public Revenue is a common law offence which can be committed without any positive steps having been undertaken. A failure to act can amount to cheating the Revenue, such as failure to submit a VAT return or pay VAT due. John Veale of Kangs Solicitors comments upon the offence. Nature Of The Offence […]

Leeds Magistrates’ Court has imposed a fine on a Yorkshire based Wire Manufacturer (‘the company’) which pleaded guilty to breaches of Health & Safety Regulations when an employee was very seriously injured.      Amandeep Murria of Kangs Solicitors sets out the circumstances. The Circumstances | Kangs Solicitors Health and Safety Team In January 2016, specialist […]

Last month, forty four people, who had been identified in the UK as part of a Europe-wide operation, were arrested in connection with alleged ‘modern day’ slavery and human trafficking offences. The investigation was conducted by the National Crime Agency and involved eighteen different police forces working with Border Force and Immigration Enforcement Officers. The […]

The Director of the Serious Fraud Office, Lisa Osofsky, recently made reference to increased reliance on suspects co-operating with investigators and in particular by entering into a formal agreement (a SOCPA Agreement’) under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (‘the Act’). We provide a brief explanation below regarding the operation of SOCPA Agreements. […]