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In this issue: Investigating criminal conduct Criminal procedure and evidence Proceeds of crime Sentencing Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Consumer protection and cartels Cybercrime and data protection offences Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Insolvency offences and Companies Act offences Money laundering International Other corporate crime news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Investigating criminal conduct Standards of candour in closed hearings, and corporate witness statements (Attorney General v BBC; R (‘Beth’) v IPT) When scrutinising MI5’s actions across two High Court cases, the court addressed the grave consequences of presenting inaccurate material within closed hearings. It outlined the tightly confined situations that can justify a departure from open justice under section 6 of the Justice and Security Act 2013 (JSA 2013). The court further...

In this issue: Investigating criminal conduct Criminal procedure and evidence Sentencing Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Consumer protection and cartels Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Local authority prosecutions Money laundering International Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Investigating criminal conduct Refusal to repurpose evidence in civil proceedings for criminal charging decision (WFZ v British Broadcasting Corp) The High Court has recently clarified the circumstances in which a party will be permitted to rely on witness statements outside the proceedings in which they were first served. In ongoing injunction proceedings aimed at stopping publication of a BBC investigative report into sexual abuse allegations, the court determined that the accused could not use sensitive excerpts from that report in representations to the...

The panel of justices at the appellate court decided, in a unanimous opinion, that the effort by the BBC to reduce its rising costs in the BBC Pension Scheme (the Scheme) undermined the interests of its members. The dispute focused on interpreting a provision within the Scheme’s governing deeds, which safeguards members from changes impinging on their ‘interests’. Justice Kim Lewison observed that, when considering if an active member possesses an interest in the particular elements of the benefit design challenged in the claim form, his conclusion—mirroring the judge’s—was affirmative. The case was closely fought over this point of construction within the Scheme’s legal deeds in question...

ARCHIVED : This case tracker is archived and is no longer actively maintained. It presents a catalogue of notable pensions judgments delivered in 2017 by the courts. The entries in this tracker are arranged by subject. Those subjects appear in the Table of Contents (on the left side of the page), set out there. This Practice Note includes citations to case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union. In general, EU judgments issued on or before 31 December 2020 remain binding on UK courts and tribunals (even where the EU courts later depart from them) until the UK courts exercise their powers to diverge. For the most part, EU case law produced after that date is not binding on the UK, though UK courts and tribunals may still have regard to EU judgments where relevant. For fuller information on the approach to EU case law, see Practice Note: Retained EU law and assimilated law...

FORTHCOMING CHANGE : The Pension Schemes Bill, anticipated to secure Royal Assent in 2026, contains measures that confer on the Pensions Ombudsman authority equivalent to that of a competent court for matters concerning the recoupment of pension overpayments. This reform removes the necessity for trustees to seek County Court involvement in such cases, thereby cutting legal costs, easing administrative burdens and promoting a swifter, more effective recovery process for schemes and their members. For more detail, see LNB News 05/06/2025 42 and Pension Schemes Bill—tracker — Pensions Ombudsman and overpayments. THIS PRACTICE NOTE APPLIES TO OCCUPATIONAL PENSION SCHEMES ONLY This Practice Note explores the extent to which accrued pension entitlements under registered occupational pension schemes may be surrendered or forfeited. The general rule against surrender—the inalienability rule Under section 91(1) of the Pensions Act 1995 (PA 1995), a member’s accrued benefit rights in a registered occupational pension scheme cannot be assigned, commuted, surrendered or charged, and no lien or set-off may be exercised over them....

For other frequently used film and TV terms, see the following: Film and TV glossary C–D Film and TV glossary E–H Film and TV glossary I–L Film and TV glossary M–P Film and TV glossary R–S Film and TV glossary T–W Abandonment When a commissioning producer acquires takeover rights and, then or later, at any time, decides in their sole and absolute discretion that completing the film is not financially viable, they may, by notice in writing, delivered to the film production company itself, formally declare the production of the film abandoned and thereby bring the film’s production to a formal end. Acquisition agreements These agreements are intended for use in circumstances where a company obtains from the film’s owner rights across multiple separate media for a specified territory. See: Acquisition agreement—film—rights in a number of separate media for a designated territory—owner of film: Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents [58]. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ...