“The Serious Fraud Office has begun a new investigation into British links with one of the biggest corruption inquiries in Africa.”
The Guardian, 1st October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Banksy, the mysterious graffiti artist who has gone from underground street phenomenon to darling of collectors including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, has been embroiled in an eBay scandal.”
The Guardian, 25th September 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Home Office has denied obstructing an investigation into allegations of corruption at arms manufacturer BAE.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st September 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government is poised to use the Parliament Act 1949 to force through a law allowing the most complex fraud cases to be tried without a jury.”
The Guardian, 21st September 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman who falsely claimed nearly £40,000 in benefits because she said she was not having sex with her live-in partner has had her £60,000 fine overturned.”
BBC News, 19th September 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Britain’s worst tax fraudster is using ‘smoke and mirrors’ to avoid paying back his illegally-gained fortune, a court heard yesterday.”
The Times, 19th September 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A metal trader pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars running a business that was an ’empire for fraud’, a court was told today. ”
The Times, 11th September 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An MEP for South East England convicted of 21 charges of benefit fraud is to be sentenced later.”
BBC News, 4th September 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Benefit claimants and job seekers could be forced to take lie detector tests as early as next year after an early review of a pilot scheme exposed 126 benefit cheats in just three months, saving one local authority £110,000.”
The Observer, 2nd September 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“On Thursday 16 August 2007 the Panel issued a consultation paper on sentencing for fraud offences. Responses are requested by 6 December 2007.”
Consultation paper on sentencing for fraud offences (PDF)
Sentencing Guidelines Council, 16th August 2007
Source: www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk
“A high-flying equity derivatives trader who held senior positions at Bank of America and Credit Suisse has appeared before court with a co-defendant on multiple fraud charges relating to an alleged exam cheating scam.”
The Times, 15th August 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Lawyers for the three former NatWest executives caught up in the Enron scandal have levelled an astonishing series of allegations against London solicitors representing the bank’s parent, RBS.”
The Times, 12th August 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Judges are increasingly willing to step in to stop another expensive disaster such as BCCI or Equitable Life.”
The Times, 2nd August 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Media tycoon Conrad Black has been convicted of three charges of fraud and one of obstructing justice by a jury in Chicago.”
BBC News, 13th July 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A key player in the Barlow Clowes affair – one of Britain’s most notorious frauds – will be able to keep nearly £10 million after the High Court ruled that creditors could not pursue him in Mauritius, where he is now based.”
The Times, 3rd July 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“They look down on council-estate dwellers as welfare-fiddling, light-fingered hoodies and chavs but it is the middle classes who are exposed today as Britain’s real habitual criminals.”
The Times, 25th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Jaffray and ors v. Society of Lloyd’s [2007] EWCA Civ 586
“The question whether the Court of Appeal had jurisdiction to reopen a case which had been before it already but where there was now an allegation of fraud, as opposed to a claim of bias by the court, was arguably moot notwithstanding ostensible authority that no such jurisdiction existed.”
WLR Daily, 20th June 2007
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The controversy over BAE Systems’ armaments deal with Saudi Arabia is overshadowing Britain’s efforts to combat international corruption, a candidate for Labour’s deputy leadership will acknowledge today.”
The Guardian, 20th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The attorney general is to face a Commons select committee over his role in the BAE corruption controversy, the Guardian has learned. Lord Goldsmith will be questioned by the constitutional affairs committee over the decision to halt a Serious Fraud Office investigation into allegations the firm paid bribes to secure arms deals with Saudi Arabia.”
The Guardian, 18th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lord Woolf, the former lord chief justice of England and Wales, yesterday defended his £6,000 a day role as chairman of an independent committee set up to review arms maker BAE Systems’ business ethics, pledging a vigorous inquiry and dismissing any suggestion he had been appointed as ‘window dressing’.”
The Guardina, 16th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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