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In this issue Criminal procedure and evidence Proceeds of crime Appeal and judicial review Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Environmental offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Local authority prosecutions Money laundering Corporate Crime in Scotland International Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Criminal procedure and evidence CTJ issues updated Crown Court Compendium The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary (CTJ) has released a revised Crown Court Compendium, Parts I and II. This ninth edition reflects the position as at July 2024. See: LNB News 02/08/2024 82. Proceeds of crime SFO recovers funds from convicted property developer On 2 August 2024, Britain’s white-collar crime prosecutor confirmed it had recovered £86,000 (US$110,000) from a former commercial property developer, convicted of fraud over a decade ago, after identifying his acquisition...

The UK's new offence of failure to prevent fraud comes into force on 1 September 2025. Large organisations could be held liable where employees, or others connected to the business, commit criminal conduct to benefit the company. Created by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023), the offence is touted as a tool to spark a shift in corporate culture. The intention is to push firms to tighten their procedures so the UK’s enforcers can more effectively police fraud in Britain. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have adopted tough language, vowing to pursue companies that fail to comply. Yet lawyers do not anticipate a flood of prosecutions or corporate plea agreements, and any that do arise are expected to take years to materialise. ‘For most in-scope companies, the house isn’t on fire,’ said Lloyd Firth, a partner at WilmerHale. He expects implementation to build slowly, reflecting the lengthy periods needed to detect, investigate and ultimately prosecute complex economic...

In this issue: Decision to prosecute and alternatives to prosecution Criminal procedure and evidence Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Cybercrime and data protection offences Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Insolvency offences and Companies Act offences Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Decision to prosecute and alternatives to prosecution SFO and CPS update joint corporate prosecution guidance The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have released revised joint guidance on prosecuting corporates, updating their previous publication. It sets out the shared stance of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the SFO Director on bringing corporate offences in England and Wales. This refresh anticipates the corporate failure to prevent fraud offence in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023),...

The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (HSWA 1974) sets out broad duties to protect the health and safety of employees and others affected by work. Not complying with these duties is a criminal offence, prosecutable in either the magistrates’ court or the Crown Court. For details of the duties under HSWA 1974, ss 2–7, see the following Practice Notes: Failure to carry out health and safety duties under HSWA 1974—offences Safety and the risk to safety under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 Employees' duties to take reasonable care for health and safety at work Directors’ duties for health and safety Health and safety law and the self-employed This Practice Note highlights those HSWA 1974 offences that can only be tried in the magistrates’ courts. Summary only health and safety offences The health and safety offences that are triable only in the magistrates’ court are: Breach of provisions relating...

Orders for costs against legal representatives Under section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (POA 1985), the Court of Appeal, the Crown Court and magistrates’ courts may direct a legal or other representative to pay wasted costs they have caused. The High Court has no authority to make this type of costs order. Separately, the Crown Court can also order costs against a solicitor by invoking its inherent jurisdiction. That jurisdiction is distinct from the power in POA 1985, section 19, and from the Costs in Criminal Cases (General) Regulations 1986 (SI 1986/1335), regulation 3. For guidance on recovering costs under these provisions, see Practice Note: Applying for costs from a prosecutor following an unsuccessful criminal prosecution...

This Practice Note explains the conditions that an individual is required to meet in order to fall within the protection afforded by the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR 1998), SI 1998/1833. Although WTR 1998 grants rights to most workers, several groups are excluded from some or all of its provisions in practice. EU-derived measures like WTR 1998, enacted to fulfil the UK’s obligations under EU law, form part of assimilated law for these purposes. For more detailed information, see Practice Note: Assimilated law. References are made in this Practice Note to judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). For guidance on the extent to which CJEU rulings bind UK courts, see Practice Notes: Assimilated law—Assimilated case law and Retained EU law and assimilated law—Retained and assimilated case law. Workers Under WTR 1998, SI 1998/1833, reg 2(1), the term ‘worker’ carries a significantly wider meaning than ‘employee’...