Detection, Disruption and Defence: The UK Government Publishes its Strategy...

The Strategy

Whilst the Government claims that the previous Serious and Organised Crime Strategy 2013 had a significant impact upon serious and organised crime in the UK, the latest Serious and…

Unexplained Wealth Order

Wealth Unexplained: High Court uphold the historic first “Unexplained Wealth Order” as NCA indicate there are many more with some explaining to do

In a clear victory for the National…

Criminal Finances Act 2017 Comes into Force

Criminal Finances Act 2017 Comes into Force

The Criminal Finances Act 2017 came into force on 30 September, introducing various new instruments into the authority’s anti-corruption toolkit. Two…

SFO suffers Supreme Court blow over the use of overseas powers

ENRC Judgment

Back to Business as Normal: Court of Appeal Prevents the Erosion of Legal Professional Privilege in a Landmark Judgment for Corporate Internal Investigations

Fulcrum acts for ENRC for the purposes…

The long arm of the SFO

An update to this article was posted in February 2021 and can be found here.

The long arm of the SFO: High Court rules that the SFO may compel a foreign company to produce documents held…

New Edition of the Code for Crown Prosecutors Takes Effect

The Code for Crown Prosecutors (“Code”) sets out the general principles crown prosecutors should follow when deciding whether to prosecute a case. The Code, issued by the Director for Public…

UK prosecution agencies publish joint principles for compensation of...

https://www.sfo.gov.uk/download/general-principles-to-compensate-overseas-victims-including-affected-states-in-bribery-corruption-and-economic-crime-cases/

Following the publication of the…

The sanctions and anti-money laundering act 2018: What’s new?

Overview

One of the effects of Brexit will be on the UK’s ability to impose and implement sanctions in order to comply with its obligations under the UN Charter and to update its anti-money…

High Court not forum for dispute linked to deferred prosecution agreement

Fulcrum examines a decision by the High Court that the Crown Court, not itself, was the appropriate forum to decide whether the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”), having concluded a deferred prosecution…

The GDPR: A paradigm shift in data protection law?

Introduction

Heralded as one of the most significant changes to data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) will take effect across the EU on 25 May 20181. Following four…

New DPA guidance: confirming the direction of travel?

UK Courts continue to grapple with the issue of litigation privilege in...

INTRODUCTION

Following the High Court judgment in Serious Fraud Office v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd [2017] EWHC 1017 QB, [2017] 1 WLR 4205 (‘SFO v. ENRC’) in which Andrews J…

CPS secures first conviction for failure to prevent bribery | News | Law...

Source: CPS secures first conviction for failure to prevent bribery | News | Law Society Gazette

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