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Protecting Premier League football clubs through tighter regulation

Black and white headshot of Prof Nick Lord By Pete Duncan and Nick Lord Filed Under: All posts, Urban Posted: January 13, 2025

The Football Governance Bill sets out to establish a new Independent Football Regulator (IFR) for English men’s elite football. As these plans for a new regulator continue to unfold, research conducted by the Department of Criminology at The University of Manchester has found that the ownership structures of many English Premier League football clubs share […]

Tagged With: Arts & Culture, fraud & financial crime, SoSS, sport

Furlough, fraud and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

Black and white headshot of Prof Nick Lord By Pete Duncan and Nicholas Lord Filed Under: All posts Posted: June 22, 2020

The Government-implemented Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) supports companies in their attempts to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic, permitting them to place employees on a temporary leave of absence known as ‘furlough’, and claim state aid to pay furloughed staff either 80% of their usual wages or up to £2,500 per month, whichever amount is […]

Tagged With: COVID-19, crime, employment, finance, financial crime, fraud, fraud & financial crime, hmrc, labour market, Pandemic, PAYE, productivity, SoSS, welfare, work & pensions

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