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Failure to prevent fraud: making up for failure to prosecute?

19 March 2024 / Author(s): Richard Lissack KC , Robin Lööf
Issue: June 2023 / Categories: Feature

The UK government has introduced a suite of amendments to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (ECCTB) which, if adopted, would add a new offence of “failure to prevent fraud” by large legal entities to the UK statute book. Corporate crime specialists Richard Lissack KC and Robin Lööf of Fountain Court Chambers analyse the proposed new offence, its background and context, main features and policy justification. Using the experience of over a decade of the existing failure to prevent bribery regime, they then consider the likely impact of the new failure to prevent fraud offence on business.

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