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Criminal cartels

11 April 2014
Issue: 7602 / Categories: Legal News
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"Dishonesty" removed from offence

On 1 April, legislative reform removed the need to prove dishonesty from the criminal cartel offence. This means the offence becomes more conduct-based—whether the accused agreed with others to enter into a cartel to price-fix or bid rig. Writing in this week’s NLJ, David Corker, partner, Corker Binning, discusses the implications of this, and concludes “the need to prove that an accused had a guilty state of mind remains and this is likely to remain as controversial an issue as it was when dishonesty was relevant”.

Issue: 7602 / Categories: Legal News
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DWF—19 appointments

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Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

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