aThis came in response to a number of corporate scandals in the UK in the late 1980s. Cadbury was followed by a number of other reports on different aspects of corporate governance within British companies. A number of these were then collected in the Combined Code, which was originally intr...
Crime, Law and Social Change - In the last four decades, the food industry in the United Kingdom has been subject to a considerable number of so-called "food-fraud scandals". These...doi:10.1007/s10611-021-10000-3Smith, RobertAberdeen, UKManning, Louise...
Match fixing is the act of playing to a (partially) pre-determined result or outcome of a sports match. The outcome usually opposes the most obvious predictions, thus causing the vast majority of gamblers to lose their money. Betting on sport is big business in the UK. Thousands of pounds...
Another notable case involved the UK-based crypto exchange Dooga, which went bankrupt following a $32 million cyber theft. However, through advanced forensic techniques, the stolen assets were traced to accounts at U.S. exchanges, thanks to KYC procedures at those platforms. A U.S. federal ba...
After the collapse of Enron, WorldCom and the associated corporate scandals in the United States, it is useful to reflect on how vigorously the system of American corporate governance was proffered as the cure for post-crisis Asian 'cron... BG Carruthers,TC Halliday - Palgrave Macmillan UK 被...
WHITCHURCH, England (Reuters) - Voters went to the polls in a region of central England on Thursday to elect a new member of parliament in a […]
TheUKhas had partygate which dealt with having parties at 10 Downing Street during COVID lockdowns. Canadaeven had fartgate, which was when one member of parliament accused another of being “unparliamentary” for using the word fart during a speech. ...
Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about everything (but not anything) across entertainment, tech, social good, science, and culture. Especial...
A fierce, but ultimately vain, action to defend bond-washing was fought in 1985 when the UK Inland Revenue declared their intention to apply income tax rates rather than the capital gains tax rate to the interest from Lloyd’s bonds. At the time, it was estimated that this switch in tax...
Construction giant Carillion collapsed under the weight of a £1.5 billion debt. Created in July 1999 following a demerger from Tarmac, it grew to become the UK’s second largest construction company, employing around 40,000 in the UK and abroad and with a vast number of government contracts...