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Failing to prevent fraud: learning lessons from health & safety Premium Content
Do health & safety duties in the workplace pave the way for failure to prevent fraud? Tom McNeill sets out the possible routes ahead
05 May 2023 / Tom McNeill
NLJ this week: Planning for corporates ahead of ‘failure to prevent’
The ‘failure to prevent’ fraud offence, now confirmed by the government, is big news for corporates. 
28 April 2023
Fail to prevent, prepare to fail Premium Content
The new ‘failure to prevent’ fraud criminal offence: Abigail Rushton & Rhys Novak set out the steps corporate bodies should be taking now to prepare
28 April 2023 / Abigail Rushton / Rhys Novak
Failure to prevent fraud confirmed
An offence of failure to prevent fraud will be included in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, the government has said.
13 April 2023
Economic crime action plan moves into second wave
The government has launched Economic Crime Plan 2—a three-year public-private partnership plan to cut fraud, money laundering and sanctions evasion, tackle kleptocracy and recover more criminal assets.
04 April 2023
LNB NEWS: MoJ warns of telephone scam
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has warned the public of a telephone scam using the MoJ telephone number to convince people to hand over money to avoid going to court or paying a larger fine. 
04 April 2023
March of the whistleblowers
The Department for Business and Trade has launched a major review of whistleblowing laws.
29 March 2023
Compliance crackdown ahead? Premium Content
Clare Hughes-Williams & Tom Bedford examine concerns about the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s increasing powers on SLAPPs & economic crime
24 March 2023 / Tom Bedford / Clare Hughes-Williams
Chancellor announces tax avoidance action
The government intends to consult ‘shortly’ on the introduction of a criminal offence of failing to comply with a legal notice from HMRC to stop promoting a tax avoidance scheme.
16 March 2023
Failings at the Serious Fraud Office
The G4S fraud trial collapse is the latest in a ‘catalogue of failings’ at the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), lawyers have warned.
15 March 2023
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Law Officers mark 25 years of Pro Bono Week
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
NLJ this week: Debts, disputes & digital bluster
A polished legal defence may owe more to artificial intelligence than legal merit—and creditors risk paying the price in delay and expense
NLJ this week: Who shaped the witness’s story?
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
NLJ this week: New law, old convictions
Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice
NLJ this week: Beyond environmental offences
The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed
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