Criminal Justice Theft and Fraud Offences in UK Law

  • UK Fraud - An Examination
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ... ... as "the quality of being deceitful; criminal deception; the using of false representations to ... Examples of the most common offences that are classed as fraud are as follows: ... cases show that the case of R v Cushion, Justice Williams said that fraud really means no more ... under Theft Act 1968 section 19 ... Obtaining property by ... ...
  • The Fraud Act 2006: Has It Had Any Impact?
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ... ... change in the law of criminal fraud since the Theft Act 1968, came ... into ... there were too many specific fraud offences, defined with reference ... to different types of ... which allows justice to be done in each particular case? ... THE ... ...
  • UK corporate criminal liability reform creeps forward
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    The UK Law Commission is considering whether corporate criminal liability law should be reformed and two weeks ago MPs proposed a new economic crime corporate offence to be included in the Financia...
    ... ... to prosecute a large company for offences such as fraud, conspiracy to defraud, theft, ... was triggered by the UK Ministry of Justice’s 2017 Call for Evidence. Reporting late last ... ...
  • Cum-Ex: A Vision Of The Future For International Fraud Investigations?
    • Mondaq UK
    ...The Cum-Ex scandal has prompted criminal and regulatory ... investigations - and civil law ... Variously described as 'the biggest tax theft in the history ... of Europe and 'the robbery of ... they are located. The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe, the ... highest court in Germany, ... potential domestic offences and defences. Aside from crimes under ... the ... ...
  • Cum-Ex: A Vision Of The Future For International Fraud Investigations?
    • Mondaq UK
    ...The Cum-Ex scandal has prompted criminal and regulatory ... investigations - and civil law ... Variously described as 'the biggest tax theft in the history ... of Europe and 'the robbery of ... they are located. The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe, the ... highest court in Germany, ... potential domestic offences and defences. Aside from crimes under ... the ... ...
  • Bribery Act review: economic crime and failure to prevent offences
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    The government published in May 2019 its responses to two Committee reports on financial crime. First,  the House of Commons Treasury Committee on 8 March 2019, published its report on “Economic Cr...
    ... ... reversing the usual burden of proof in criminal cases. It is notoriously difficult for the ... Earlier in 2017, the Ministry of Justice" also consulted on extending “failure to prevent\xE2" ... conspiracy to defraud; - offences under the Fraud Act 2006; - the offence of false accounting at ction 17 of the Theft Act 1968; - money laundering offences at section ... ...
  • Private Prosecutions: A Blurred Line Between Recovery Of Damages And Public Justice?
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... Criminal Cases Review Commission ('CCRC') arising out of ... and counter staff for, primarily, offences ... of theft, fraud and false accounting based on ... ...
  • Private Prosecutions: A Blurred Line Between Recovery Of Damages And Public Justice? ' Anoushka Warlow And Cindy Laing Published In The Barrister
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... followed a request made by the Criminal Cases Review Commission ... ('CCRC') arising out ... offences of theft, fraud and false accounting based on ... ...
  • Another Bad Day For The Serious Fraud Office ' But What Are The Broader Implications?
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... and the SFO agreed a DPA; SGL accepted criminal ... liability for fraud and false accounting ting to contracts with ... the Ministry of Justice and agreed to pay '19.2m and SFO ... costs of ... historic convictions for theft, fraud and false accounting offences ... were set ... ...
  • Just a little bit of history repeating: Has the UK reached a familiar juncture in respect of the detection, investigation and prosecution of serious and complex cybercrime?
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    In October this year, the City of London Corporation announced plans, backed by H.M. Courts and Tribunals Service, for the construction of a state-of-the-art trial venue complex in central London, ...
    ... ... complex in central London, specialising in fraud and cybercrime. This has been lauded as a timely ... does it only go half-way in ensuring that justice is properly served in cases of serious and ... (i) ‘cyber-dependent’ crime, that is offences perpetrated against systems and data that cannot ... ‘cyber-enabled’ crime, that is mature criminal offences such as fraud, theft and harassment, ... ...
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