Previously, where a country needed assistance from law enforcement in another jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute criminal offences, it would have to go through the notoriously slow and often fruitless process of...more
Much has been made of the Supreme Court's decision earlier this month in KBR, Inc. v Director of the Serious Fraud Office, in which it confirmed the limits on UK authorities' reach overseas in anti-corruption investigations....more
2/24/2021
/ Criminal Investigations ,
Criminal Justice Act ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
Financial Crimes ,
Foreign Corporations ,
Foreign Jurisdictions ,
KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) ,
Multinationals ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK ,
UK Supreme Court
UK law enforcement can now obtain an order against a person in or operating in the US for the production of or access to electronic data under a new ‘landmark’ US-UK data sharing agreement.
The agreement has been heralded...more
6/19/2020
/ CLOUD Act ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Document Productions ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Law Enforcement ,
Overseas Production Order (OPO) ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) ,
UK
The approach of the Serious Fraud Office (the “SFO”) to compelled interviews is a longstanding source of frustration for criminal defence lawyers. The beginning of Lisa Osofsky’s tenure as Director and the introduction of...more
11/21/2019
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Corruption ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Criminal Justice Act ,
Fraud ,
Interviews ,
Legal Professional Privilege ,
Legal Representatives ,
Motion to Compel ,
Privileged Documents ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK
An informant is sent into the midst of a criminal gang. He is wearing a concealed device, crudely taped to his chest. Law enforcement agents listen in from the back of an unmarked van parked inconspicuously nearby hoping to...more
6/14/2019
/ Covert Human Intelligence Source (CHIS) ,
Criminal Investigations ,
European Convention on Human Rights ,
Evidence ,
Immunity ,
Informants ,
Organized Crime ,
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) ,
Sentence Reduction ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA) ,
UK ,
White Collar Crimes ,
Wiretapping