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UK Supreme Court Limits Serious Fraud Office's Extraterritorial Powers

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The Issue: The UK Supreme Court was asked to decide whether section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 granted the Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") powers to compel the production of documents held outside the United Kingdom. ...more

White & Case LLP

KBR – no paradigm shift for the SFO. We look back at what is.

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Much has been made of the Supreme Court's decision earlier this month in KBR, Inc. v Director of the Serious Fraud Office, in which it confirmed the limits on UK authorities' reach overseas in anti-corruption investigations....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

English Supreme Court Limits Serious Fraud Office’s Extraterritorial Reach

On 5 February 2021, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) could not force a foreign company to hand over material that it holds abroad through a notice issued under Section 2(3) of the Criminal...more

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