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UK Report: Serious Economic Crime – A boardroom guide to prevention and compliance

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Serious Economic Crime – A boardroom guide to prevention and compliance, January 2012 [312 pages, UK government]

  • “It is significant that, for this first edition of Serious Economic Crime [Combating major fraud and corruption], published by White Page in association with the Serious Fraud Office, lawyers from the private sector – more usually known for defending clients against allegations of serious fraud – have been asked to contribute to, and indeed edit, the publication. Until relatively recently, the way in which defence lawyers and the SFO were likely to interact was as part of the traditional model of the investigation and prosecution of serious fraud. This would often involve, as far as the suspect was concerned, high-profile arrests and the simultaneous execution of several search warrants early in the morning, followed perhaps by a series of interviews under caution over many months, the eventual bringing of charges, heavily fought interlocutory hearings, battles over disclosure, and ultimately the often lengthy adversarial trial process. While it is certainly the case that all of these things still occur regularly, a large part of the discussion in this book is about a new, more consensual approach towards corporate crime on the part of the SFO, how that is operating in practice, and how it is likely to develop.”
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