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Corporate criminal responsibility in the UK is poised for further reform as the Crime and Policing Bill 2025 (CPB) advances through Parliament. Currently through the House of Commons, and now in the House of Lords, the...more
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is raising the stakes. With the publication of new Co-operation and Enforcement Guidance on 24 April 2025, the agency is ramping up enforcement and clarifying expectations for corporate...more
The Crime and Policing Bill 2025, published by the UK Government on February 25, 2025, proposes extending the new ‘senior manager’ test of corporate criminal attribution to all criminal offences, not just economic crime...more
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act was passed by Parliament on 26 October. The Act makes significant changes to the law of corporate criminal liability....more
The new Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the Act) is the latest step in the UK Government’s attempts to address economic crime and improve transparency over corporate entities. Whilst most of the key...more
Where a criminal offence requires proof of a specific mental state, or ‘mens rea’ (such as intent, recklessness or dishonesty), previously a company could only be found guilty if an individual who represented the company’s...more
After several years of discussion and consultation, the UK Government now appears to be close to reforming the law on corporate criminal liability via the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. These changes, if...more
On June 15, 2023, the UK Government announced that it would seek to introduce the biggest reform of corporate criminal liability in England and Wales for more than 50 years. ...more
When the UK government pushed the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act through Parliament at breakneck speed earlier this year, it always made clear that it had plans for a second, complimentary piece of...more
On 10 June, the Law Commission published its long awaited Options Paper, with proposals on reforming corporate criminal liability in England and Wales, following the launch of its discussion paper in June 2021...more
“It has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked”. How, then, can a company be held criminally liable? Various jurisdictions have grappled with this question and recent developments in the UK have increased the...more
In January 2017, the UK Government issued a consultation paper calling for evidence on reforming corporate criminal liability for economic crime. Nearly four years later, on 3 November 2020, the Government’s response was...more
As widely anticipated, French and U.K. regulators recently published guidance detailing their expectations for corporate cooperation in enforcement investigations. Both sets of guidance demonstrate further alignment of those...more
Corruption Watch UK has claimed that “a company committing economic crime in the US is far more likely to be hit with criminal, civil and regulatory penalties than one in the UK.” In a hard-hitting report published on 5 March...more
Shakespeare’s observation that the “past is prologue” certainly applies to corporate criminal liability in the UK and France, as these jurisdictions embrace with gusto corporate prosecutions akin to those pursued in the US...more
Speaking at the 35th annual Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Robert Buckland QC MP, the Solicitor General for England and Wales, and David Green QC, Director of the SFO, addressed the question, “Preventing...more
The UK’s growing focus on corporate criminal liability was seen in two recent pieces of news. Last Friday the government announced a consultation on extending the reach of corporate criminal liability to additional...more