Finally: the FCA policy statement on non-financial misconduct (via Passle) Introduction   On 12 December 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its Policy statement PS25/23: Tackling non‑financial miscon...

In this article, @singhbarrister.bsky.social examines the FCA’s new guidance on non-financial misconduct, outlining key changes to the Code of Conduct, commenting on the Fit and Proper test, and considering how the new regime may interact with #employmentlaw.

💥 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals, both by 98-2 percent. GS Board urged shareholders to vote to reject proposals. "We believe that diversity, including diversity of thought, experience and perspectives, is important to our commercial success."

WHEN A PARTY CITES, AND RELIES, ON CASE LAW THAT “DOES NOT EXIST” :”A MOST UNHAPPY FEATURE OF THIS CASE” There is a very unusual element to the judgment of Mr Justice Kerr in Olsen & Anor v Finansiel Stabilitet A/S [2025] EWHC 42 (KB). The appellants, litigants in person, relied on case law that a…

Where a litigant relies on case law that "does not exist" www.civillitigationbrief.com/2025/01/31/w...

Hina Belitz, Partners/Excello Law.

COST BITES 191: COSTS BILL REDUCED TO NIL BECAUSE OF MISCONDUCT ON ASSESSMENT: “THIS IS THE WORSE EXAMPLE OF TAMPERING WITH A FILE OF PAPERS THAT I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED” I am grateful to Simon Gibbs of GWS Costs for sending me a copy of the judgment of Costs Judge James in Kapoor -v- Johal [2024] EWHC 2853 (SCCO).  The judge made findings of serious misconduct by t…

All litigators & cost lawyers need to read this. Costs reduced to nil because of misconduct during the costs assessment process www.civillitigationbrief.com/2024/11/11/c...

On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"