UK Inches Toward Corporate Criminal Liability Law Reform

On Nov 4, 2020

Law360, London (November 4, 2020, 5:17 PM GMT) — Britain’s outdated laws on corporate criminal liability face fresh scrutiny in an independent review beginning this week, in a move that drew criticism from lawyers for further delaying long-promised reforms to make it easier to prosecute companies for fraud and economic crime offenses.

The Ministry of Justice on Tuesday asked the Law Commission, the organization responsible for proposing reforms to the country’s legal code, to draw up options to reform the laws around corporate criminal liability, judging that its own 2017 call for evidence failed to deliver a clear consensus on how to proceed.

Mishcon de Reya partner Johanna Walsh said…

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