Effective September 1, 2025, the UK’s Failure to Prevent Fraud offense will go into effect as part of the UK’s Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the ECCTA). The law significantly expands corporate liability...more
Companies in the US and around the world should consider their potential for UK exposure and assess their compliance programmes in light of that risk. On 1 September 2025, the UK will implement a new corporate criminal...more
After several years of discussion and consultation, the UK Government now appears to be close to reforming the law on corporate criminal liability via the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. These changes, if...more
In the House of Lords yesterday evening the Government confirmed that it intends to propose a new ‘failure to prevent’ corporate criminal offence to be inserted into the Economic Crime Bill. We consider the backdrop to this...more
On 10 June 2022, the Law Commission published its long-awaited options paper on Corporate Criminal Liability (“the Paper”). The Paper discussed a “failure to prevent money laundering offence” (the “FTPML Offence”), but did...more
The government published in May 2019 its responses to two Committee reports on financial crime. First, the House of Commons Treasury Committee on 8 March 2019, published its report on “Economic Crime – Anti-money laundering...more
Following mounting calls for reform of the UK's corporate criminal liability regime, the Government is expected to consult later this year on potential reforms, which are likely to include a new corporate offence of failing...more
Shakespeare’s observation that the “past is prologue” certainly applies to corporate criminal liability in the UK and France, as these jurisdictions embrace with gusto corporate prosecutions akin to those pursued in the US...more
Since a 1971 dispute over the pricing of washing powder, English law has required that for acts to be attributable to a corporation they must represent the directing mind and will of that organisation. The “identification...more