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Book review: Kingsley Napley & 6KBW College Hill: Serious Fraud, Investigation & Trial (5th edition)

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01 September 2023 / Peter Binning
Issue: 8038 / Categories: Features , Fraud , Criminal
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"The contents of this new edition cover every aspect of the modern fraud lawyer’s practice"
  • Author: Alun Milford & Paul Jarvis
  • Publisher: LexisNexis Butterworths
  • ISBN: 9781474323352
  • RRP: £295

Criminal fraud lawyers of a certain age have grown up with this book. This is the generation that was a bit too young to have been fully qualified when the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) came into being in July 1987, and those who can just about remember the Guinness, Blue Arrow and Maxwell trials of the 1990s. It was a pioneering work by David Kirk and Tony Woodcock which ran to three editions from 1992 onwards until it was taken over in its fourth by Stephen Gentle, Louise Hodges and a team from Kingsley Napley. This remains an essential volume for every practitioner in this developing field of the law.

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In all those years since the first edition, there has been enormous change in the world

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