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Weekly Digest: 10 February 2020

6KBWPosted on 10th February 2020 by 6KBW
This week's edition contains two judgments of the Divisional Court and one of the Crown Court. In Director of the Serious Fraud Office v Airbus SE the Crown Court approved...
Corporate crime General

Deferred Prosecution Agreements and the Tesco outcome

Sasha Wass QCPosted on 8th July 2019 by Sasha Wass QC
In April 2017, Tesco Stores Limited entered a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the Serious Fraud Office in respect of one offence of False Accounting. By January 2019, three individuals who...
Corporate crime Crime General

The House of Lords’ Report on the Bribery Act 2010: A Glimpse Into the Future of Economic Crime?

Karl LairdPosted on 28th March 2019 by Karl Laird
On 14 March 2019, the Select Committee on the Bribery Act 2010 published its Report in which it makes a number of conclusions and recommendations.1 The Committee was given the task...
Corporate crime Proceeds of crime Regulatory

UK Anti-Corruption Strategy – one year on

Simon RayPosted on 13th February 2019 by Simon Ray
What action has been taken since the launch of the UK anti-corruption strategy in 2017? Simon Ray discusses the ‘year one update’ reviewing progress so far and considers what developments...
Corporate crime Crime General

Runaway companies: prosecuting a company in its absence

Lucy OrganPosted on 16th January 2019 by Lucy Organ and Rosalind Earis
The jurisdiction to prosecute an individual in his or her absence is well established: the court must not proceed unless it is satisfied that the defendant has waived the right...
Corporate crime Crime General International

Mixed messages: is there an inconsistency as to the extra-territorial ambit of disclosure between POCA and the SFO?

Duncan Atkinson QCPosted on 17th October 2018 by Duncan Atkinson QC and Alistair Richardson
On 6 September 2018, the Administrative Court handed down its judgement in the case of the Queen on the application of KBR Inc v the Director of the SFO [2018] EWHC 2368...
Corporate crime Crime

Adequate Procedures and the Watchful Eye of the Prosecutor

Katherine HardcastlePosted on 20th September 2018 by Katherine Hardcastle
In a recent speech to the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime (see here), Lisa Osofsky, the new Director of the Serious Fraud Office, concluded a general survey of her...
Corporate crime Crime General Proceeds of crime

Case comment: SFO v Saleh [2018] EWHC 1012

Simon RayPosted on 9th July 2018 by Simon Ray
In SFO v Saleh, the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the SFO in an appeal against a property freezing order for £4.4 million. This case illustrates the willingness and...
Corporate crime Crime General

The Latest Developments in Legal Professional Privilege in Corporate Investigations  

Duncan Atkinson QCPosted on 9th May 2018 by Duncan Atkinson QC and Alistair Richardson
In a judgment that will have significant repercussions for internal corporate investigations, and corporates seeking to enter into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA), the SFO was criticised by the High...
Corporate crime Crime Proceeds of crime

Targeting McMafia, Salisbury and Syria – the Unexplained Wealth Order

Peter RatliffPosted on 2nd May 2018 by Peter Ratliff
Алты́нного во́ра ве́шают, а полти́нного че́ствуют - Laws catch flies but let hornets go free (Russian Proverb) ‘Unexplained Wealth Orders’ (‘UWOs’) came into force on 31 January 2018[1]. UWOs are designed as...

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