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Companies House flaw exposed five million directors and enabled company hijacking

Mar 13, 2026 Investigations

Companies House flaw exposed five million directors and enabled company hijacking

A major vulnerability in the Companies House website enabled free access to the “dashboard” of any of the five million registered companies. It revealed directors’ home addresses and email addresses, and appears to have enabled editing of company details and even filing of accounts. The vulnerability was discovered yesterday by John Hewitt at Ghost Mail, […]

THE HON. MRS JUSTICE COLLINS RICE DBE CB
Approved Judgment

Kamal v Tax Policy Associates

31. In the circumstances, the pleading that it was ‘false and misleading’ to suggest that a
judicial finding of breach of duty had been made against him is incapable of forming a
part of the just disposal of Mr Kamal’s libel claim. The attempt to do so is an abuse of

the court’s processes. I grant the Defendant’s application to strike out [5(b)] of Mr
Kamal’s particulars of claim.

Mar 11, 2026 Analysis

We defeated an £8m libel claim – and it shows libel law and the Tax Bar need reform.

In February 2025, we published a report about a firm called Arka Wealth. They’d published hundreds of TikTok videos promoting a scheme that claimed to eliminate all corporate tax, income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax – not just in the UK but across Europe. An unbelievable claim, and all the tax advisers I […]

Simon Goldberg and Empower the People - US tax fraud

Feb 25, 2026 Investigations

The bizarre UK group selling US tax fraud to hundreds of Britons – and prosecuting its critics

Simon Goldberg and his UK-based organisation, Empower the People, are running an elaborate scheme to defraud the US Government. The group files fake US tax returns to trick the IRS into refunding their members’ everyday UK consumer spending – a practice the US tax authorities have repeatedly warned is fraudulent. When YouTuber Salim Fadhley publicised […]

Finance Monthly fake interview

Feb 20, 2026 Analysis

Finance Monthly fabricated an interview with me

Earlier this week, Finance Monthly published an article presented as an interview with me. No such interview took place. I was not contacted. I did not answer questions. The claim that Finance Monthly “spoke with” me is false. The piece reads like generic AI/large-language-model output: heavy use of em dashes, and lots of vague grand-sounding […]

Feb 11, 2026 Analysis

Mandelson and the Epstein emails: could he be prosecuted?

As has been widely reported, Peter Mandelson forwarded confidential Government documents to Jeffrey Epstein, and advised the CEO of JPMorgan to “mildly threaten” the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This article considers the prospect of prosecuting Mr Mandelson for these acts. Our view, on the basis of discussions with barristers and solicitors specialising in criminal and […]

Feb 11, 2026 Analysis

Epstein files: Mandelson email search

The official US Department of Justice “Epstein Library⚠️” search facility is slow and cumbersome. We can’t duplicate a multimillion-document search on our website, but we have made a fast and efficient search for the approximately 7,500 documents that are related to Peter Mandelson. It’s much less complete than jmail, but has the advantage that it […]

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