Lawyer Monthly - January 2023

Monthly Round-Up JANUARY 2023 Trump Organisation Found Guilty of Tax Fraud Two businesses belonging to former president Donald Trump's real estate and licensing company have been found guilty of running a 13-year tax fraud scheme. all announced strike action to take place over the winter. “My priority is making sure that I keep people safe, and that I minimise the disruption on their lives, and I will do what is required to do that,” Sunak told the BBC regarding the possibility of banning strikes among emergency services. Richard Arthur, head of trade union law at Thompsons Solicitors, criticised the statement. “When Rishi Sunak says he’ll ‘do what he needs to do’, he is talking as if he can act without regard to the UK’s international legal obligations,” he said. “The right to strike is an internationally-recognised, fundamental human right, and needs to be given the respect it deserves. How come he gets to decide what is reasonable in the face of all of these international obligations which need to be complied with?” president, with the Supreme Court having recently ordered that his tax returns be handed over to a congressional committee. New York attorney general Letitia James, whose office assisted the district attorney’s case, also lauded the result. “This verdict sends a clear message that no one, and no organisation, is above our laws,” she said. The company was accused of illegally reducing the tax it paid on executive paid by awarding executives ‘off-the-books’ benefits such as boats and luxury cars in what prosecutors described as a multi-decade scheme. A New York jury found the Trump Organissation guilty of all 17 charges on 6 December. “The foremr president’s companies now stand convicted of crimes,” Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement to the media after the verdict was delivered. “That is consequential. It underscores that in Manhattan we have a standard of justice for all.” The conviction marks a victory for Manhattan prosecutors in the only extant criminal case against the Trump Organisation and marks the latest in a string of recent defeats for the former Downing Street has confirmed that the current parliamentary session will be extended until autumn 2023 to allow for greater time to pass a large crop of laws. Official portrait of Rishi Sunak by Chris McAndrew | WikiCommons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) | creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en The laws in question include a number that began their passage through Parliament under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s predecessor Boris Johnson, including the Online Safety Bill, as well as “new tough laws” to prevent strike disruption as revealed by Sunak last week. Announced earlier in December, the strike law plans drew an immediate backlash from opposition leaders. The announcement comes as nurses, paramedics, rail staff and Border Force agents have Rishi Sunak Extends Time to Pass Anti-Strike Law 6 LAWYERMONTHLY JANUARY 2023

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