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Andrysiewicz (Appellant) v Circuit Court in Lodz, Poland (Respondent) [2025] UKSC 23 Background On 23 September 2020, the Circuit Court in Lodz issued a request for the extradition of Ewa Andrysiewicz to Poland so that she could serve a two-year custodial sentence arising from four linked fraud offences committed between 2007 and 2008. That sentence had initially been suspended for five years but was later activated in full after she failed to comply with the suspension conditions. Following her arrest in London on 21 January 2023, Andrysiewicz contested extradition, arguing that her removal would be a disproportionate interference with her right to respect for private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). To advance her Article 8 case, she relied on the prospect that, if an application under the Polish Penal Code succeeded, she might not be required to serve the remaining portion of the sentence. The district judge nevertheless ordered her extradition to Poland to serve the two-year term, and...

Part XII of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000) Part XII of FSMA 2000 obliges controllers and prospective controllers to secure approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) or the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) prior to acquiring, or increasing, control in a UK authorised firm, and to inform the appropriate regulator when they decrease or cease such control thereafter. The FCA and PRA likewise expect UK authorised firms to notify them when a person reduces, or no longer holds, control in the firm. This Practice Note considers the criminal and regulatory consequences of failing to follow the change of control regime in FSMA 2000, Part XII and the linked FCA and PRA rules. It also summarises the powers available to the FCA and PRA under the controllers regime to: object to an individual or entity holding control over a UK authorised person impose restrictions on shares or voting power that have been acquired improperly order the sale of shares or...

Death benefits and trustee discretion Kordylas and another v Pensions Ombudsman Entries in this tracker are grouped by topic. Those topics appear in the Table of Contents on the left-hand side of the page. Next hearing: Chancery appeal. Case reference: CH-2024-000019. Representation The Appellants, Ewa Kordylas and Wlodzimierz Kordylas, are at present shown as litigants in person The Respondent, Trustees of Royal Mail Defined Contribution Plan, is represented by Hogan Lovells International Issue On 26 January 2024, the Appellants lodged an application for appeal in the Chancery Division challenging a decision of the Pensions Ombudsman. In the determination concerning Mrs S (CAS-45582-S0J0) dated 12 October 2023, Mrs S complained to the Pensions Ombudsman, in fact, that the Trustees of the Royal Mail Defined Contribution Plan had wrongly exercised their discretion by directing part of a lump-sum death benefit to the deceased member’s girlfriend instead of to the member’s family members. The Pensions Ombudsman dismissed the complaint, concluding that the...