Law and the Justice System

A City of London policing head last night called for the Government to reform the disclosure system, which was designed before mass digital data, “to deliver faster and more effective justice for victims.”

https://www.policeprofessional.com/news/uk-needs-disclosure-of-evidence-regime-fit-for-digital-age-says-city-policing-chief/

As the economic crime and corporate transparency bill winds its way through parliament, it would be understandable if the Serious Fraud Office had a greater interest than most in its progress.

https://www.ftadviser.com/companies/2023/02/22/corporate-crime-bill-is-welcome-development-for-sfo/

Tom Stocker details developments in the law surrounding fraud and related offences.

https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/tom-stocker-the-new-front-in-the-fight-against-corporate-crime

OpenTable is urging UK restaurants and diners to be aware of fraudsters pretending to be employees to con customers into providing their credit card details.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/opentable-scam-uk-diners-conned-into-giving-card-details-to-fraudsters/ar-AA17oEkS

A new offence of failing to prevent “fraud, false accounting or money laundering” is to be introduced into UK law, a senior government minister has confirmed.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/failure-to-prevent-fraud-false-accounting-or-money-laundering-to-be-a-uk-criminal-offence

In the House of Commons debate of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill on 25 January 2023[1], Robert Buckland MP proposed an amendment[2] introducing a new criminal corporate offence for failure to prevent fraud, false accounting and money laundering.

https://www.emmlegal.com/publications/the-expansion-of-the-uks-failure-to-prevent-legislation/

Recently proposed amendments will see the biggest change in corporate criminal enforcement since the enactment of the Bribery Act in 2010

https://www.osborneclarke.com/insights/uk-make-failure-prevent-fraud-criminal-offence

Law firms and accountants that fail to do enough to prevent fraud are the target of the UK government’s Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill.

https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/new-offence-of-failure-to-prevent-fraud-on-the-horizon

The director of the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has backed plans for a new ‘failure to prevent’ fraud offence, after government ministers today confirmed the offence would make its way on the statute books.

https://www.cityam.com/serious-fraud-office-osofsky-backs-governments-plan-for-new-failure-to-prevent-fraud-offence/

Anti-fraud police boasted of seizing a record £30million from scammer only to hand it back.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/anti-fraud-police-boasted-of-seizing-record-%C2%A330m-from-scammer-but-told-to-hand-it-back/ar-AA16EDOp