Serious Fraud Office (SFO) director David Green’s replacement has been chosen and will be announced in ‘due course’ before taking up the new role later this year. Mark Thompson, the SFO’s Chief Operating Officer and former head of Proceeds of Crime Division will serve as interim director from 21 April. Green is due to leave the SFO on 20 April following six years at its helm. His achievements include six convictions for rate rigging offences, the first SFO conviction after trial of a corporate entity for offences involving bribery of foreign officials and obtaining a number of high profile Deferred Prosecution Agreements.
10 April 2018
SFO chief chosen
MOVERS & SHAKERS
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NEWS
The government will aim to pass legislation banning leasehold for new flats and capping ground rent, introducing non-compulsory digital ID and creating a ‘duty of candour’ for public servants (also known as the Hillsborough law) in the next Parliament
An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice
Reforms to the disclosure regime in the business and property courts have not achieved their objectives, lawyers have warned
The Law Society has urged ministers to hold a public consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the justice system as a whole
Ministers have proposed bringing inquest work under a single fee scheme for legal help and advocacy legal aid work
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