Fraud and murder
New corporate offences and longer prison sentences? We wait to see
A new offence of failure to prevent economic crime is to be rushed through parliament in the coming weeks. Is this going to deter commercial fraud and similar offences? Or will it put unnecessary burdens on business? Those are the issues I discuss in my column for today’s Law Society Gazette.
You’ll find I don’t come down on one side or the other. That’s…
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