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The Crime and Policing Act 2026 introduces Section 250, fundamentally transforming UK corporate criminal liability by replacing the narrow "identification doctrine" with a broad attribution principle that holds organisations accountable for criminal offences committed by senior managers. This sweeping reform extends beyond economic crimes to encompass the full spectrum of criminal offences, significantly lowering the threshold for corporate prosecution. Financial services firms face heightened exposure as t

After numerous delays, the Bribery Act 2010 comes into force on 1 July.

The President of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court has given final approval to the Serious Fraud Office's ("SFO") second ever Deferred Prosecution Agreement ("DPA").

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 introduces sweeping changes to corporate criminal liability in the UK, making organizations accountable for any criminal offense committed by senior managers acting within their authority. This expansion from limited economic crimes to all UK criminal offenses requires businesses to reassess their risk management strategies and implement robust oversight measures for senior leadership.

The UK’s Companies House has released its third report on the implementation and operation of Parts 1 to 3 of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA).

Cyber security is one of the biggest challenges businesses currently face, as cyber-attacks make national and international news headlines on an almost daily basis.

On September 15, 2022, before an audience at NYU School of Law that included the Director of the SEC's Enforcement Division Gurbir Grewal, U.S. Attorneys for the Southern District...

The High Court of Justice of England and Wales ("The High Court") recently provided a rare insight into the difficulties that companies and individuals may face when challenging the basis of a SFO...

In this article we will read something about corporate liability and how the United Kingdom has drawn the boundaries to prevent the executors, who these executors can be?

The government's long-awaited response to a call for evidence on changing the basis for corporate criminal liability promises further analysis by the Law Commission...

The Serious Fraud Office will be justifiably satisfied with court approval of the first UK DPA but Tony Lewis and Natalie Quinlivan of Fieldfisher find the case raises questions about scope for application of the new tool.

On 4 September 2023, all eyes will be on the House of Commons as it considers the Lords' amendments to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill in the third and final stage.

The surge in the number of criminal prosecutions brought by the FSA has been well-publicised. The recent Court of Appeal judgments in R v Rollins and R v McInerney will embolden further the financial regulator as a prosecutor of financial crime.

With corruption increasingly hitting the headlines (think GlaxoSmithKline in China and Qatar's World Cup bid), in early December 2014, the OECD issued a new report on corruption, highlighting the scale of bribery worldwide.

Tesco's former UK managing director, Chris Bush, and John Scouler, its former UK food commercial director, were acquitted of fraud and false accounting...

Corporate Crime analysis: The October 2019 Queen's Speech included a significant number of Bills impacting the work of corporate crime lawyers.

The UK's new "failure to prevent fraud" offence, effective September 2025, holds large organisations liable for fraud by associated persons unless reasonable prevention measures are in place, with global implications.

US companies and their subsidiaries with operations in Europe need to take note of two recent landmark developments in corruption and anti-trust law.