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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) plays a crucial role in overseeing the UK’s financial services industry, ensuring that firms adhere to regulations designed to prevent financial crime, including money laundering. Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs) are pivotal in this framework, responsible for detecting and reporting suspicious activity to safeguard against money laundering.
The inaugural Silver Notice, requested by Italy in relation to assets belonging to a senior member of the mafia, was welcomed by INTERPOL General Secretary, Valdeny Urquiza, who laid bare the scale of the challenge when commenting that “… 99 per cent of criminal assets remain unrecovered.”
At first blush, it might be considered that this case marks a new dawn for enforcement authorities demonstrating their willingness to seek high value recovery orders and to pursue aggressive litigation tactics, including applications for summary judgement; however, it seems more likely that the DPP was encouraged and indeed emboldened by the exceptional factual matrix and the Defendant’s litigation conduct.
The Supreme Court’s recent judgment in SkyKick v Sky found that the Court of Appeal were wrong to overturn the High Court’s decision that Sky had acted in bad faith when registering some of their broad trade mark registrations in relation to the specifications.
The Court found that the funds and cryptocurrency held by the Tate brothers are the proceeds of a deliberate and dishonest cheat of the revenue (HMRC).
On appeal, Prada argued that its triangle mark had been used in a commercially meaningful way across the contested product categories. The company presented a wealth of evidence to substantiate its claims.
There have recently been several disputes pertaining to Aldi’s supermarket own-brand products, essentially the alleged copying of goods from other leading brands. Recent legal rulings have indicated that, whilst these “copycat brands” may be similar, it is unlikely to cause confusion substantive enough to amount to infringement under the Trade Marks Act 1994 (“TMA”). Registered design rights, however, may give a considerable advantage in fights against “copycat brands”.
The Court of Appeal in THG Plc & Others v Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 158 examined whether limitation periods apply to unfair prejudice petitions under section 994 of the Companies Act 2006, and, if applicable, which periods are relevant.
Recent legal developments have suggested that mediation is becoming a mandatory step in certain litigation proceedings in England and Wales.
When considering a trademark, the inclination is to immediately think of recognisable logos and words. But trademarks can also include colours, devices, product shapes, scents, tastes and sounds.
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