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Fraud is the making of false representations or engaging in deceptive behavior in order to unlawfully secure financial or personal gain. 
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Regulators and reforms: how Australia tackled white collar crime in 2023 and what to expect in 2024

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Regulators and enforcement authorities in Australia intensified their efforts to curb white-collar crime in 2023. They targeted fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, cybercrime, and corruption across multiple industries,...more

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Internal Company Fraud Investigations | The Essential Guide For In-house Counsel

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Corporate fraud is rampant - and nearly half of companies aren’t even investigating it.  That’s the message from PwC’s Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey 2020, which surveyed more than 5,000 companies globally about...more

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SFO Update: Lisa Osofsky’s First 50 Days

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New SFO Director reaffirms her intentions and priorities for the agency. Fifty days have passed since Lisa Osofsky took over at the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), pledging to be a “different kind” of director....more

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Legal Professional Privilege: The New Status Quo

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Legal professional privilege (“LPP”) has been a feature of the common law for centuries, developed through the public interest in protecting confidentiality of communications between a lawyer and its client. As a concept...more

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High Court Decision Confirms the Availability of the Protection of Litigation Privilege in the Context of Internal Investigations

In a recent decision, the Chancellor of the High Court in Bilta v RBS confirmed that in certain circumstances litigation privilege may protect from disclosure documents created in the context of an internal investigation. The...more

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Lawyers Beware: Battle of Legal Professional Privilege of Internal Investigation Continues in England and Wales

Last month, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales granted permission for Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. Ltd. (“ENRC”) to appeal the May 2017 decision by the High Court relating to a dispute over the legal professional...more

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The Ethics of Internal Investigations, Domestic and Abroad: Protecting the Attorney Client Privilege during Internal...

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The attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine are two of the oldest and most sacrosanct privileges in the law. The attorney-client privilege protects the functioning of the attorney and client...more

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Careful Measures May Be Needed to Protect Privileged Internal Investigative Materials

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In March, the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia ordered defense contractors Kellogg Brown and Root Inc. and Halliburton’s (“KBR”) legal department to produce internal investigative reports that KBR contended...more

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Qui tam relators target – and gain access to – internal investigation on ground that attorney-client privilege does not apply

In Brief - A federal district court recently held that documents relating to a government contractor’s internal compliance investigations regarding fraud were not protected by the attorney-client privilege because...more

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