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UK corporate crime weekly: Crime and Policing Bill, sanctions/export controls, AML, MoJ computer evidence review, court fees, procedural changes, environmental enforcement, FCA fraud case—27 February 2025

Published on: 27 February 2025

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  • Investigating criminal conduct
  • Criminal procedure and evidence
  • Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls
  • Consumer protection and cartels
  • Environmental offences
  • Financial services and pensions offences
  • Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences
  • Insolvency offences and Companies Act offences
  • Money laundering
  • International
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Investigating criminal conduct

Crime and Policing Bill introduced into Parliament

The Home Office has confirmed that the Crime and Policing Bill is due to be laid before Parliament. Headline measures include a power for police to enter without a warrant to retrieve electronically tracked stolen goods, scrapping the £200 de facto threshold for prosecuting shop theft, and a bespoke assault offence to better protect retail staff. The Bill also establishes new crimes for spiking, child criminal exploitation, and recording intimate images without consent. It bolsters existing regimes on stalking, knife crime and child sexual abuse, introducing a statutory obligation to report abuse. In addition, ‘Respect Orders’ will target repeat antisocial behaviour, while reformed misconduct processes will help Chief Constables remove unfit officers more swiftly...

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