Jul 23, 2021 A prosecutor’s dozen: the SFO announce 11th and 12th DPAs By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has entered into two new deferred prosecution agreement (DPAs), taking the total number entered into to 12...
Oct 30, 2020 Taking flight: The SFO secures its ninth DPA By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has agreed its ninth deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), which has now received approval in the Crown...
Jul 17, 2020 High Court Approves G4S Deferred Prosecution Agreement By Neill Blundell Francis Bond The High Court has approved the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) eighth Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA). We blogged earlier this week on...
Jul 13, 2020 The SFO gets agreement in principle for its eighth DPA By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has received approval in principle to enter into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with G4S Care and...
Jun 30, 2020 More time needed: SFO granted another extension to seize London properties By Neill Blundell James Reid Last Friday the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) was granted a further extension in its attempt to seize UK properties and cash worth...
Apr 17, 2020 Bribery Act 2010: 10 years in numbers By Neill Blundell James Reid 10 years after it received royal assent, a recent freedom of information request has shed some light on the consequences of the Bribery...
Jul 18, 2019 The subject of the UK's second DPA is revealed By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs On 16 July 2019 the identity of the anonymous counterparty to the second ever deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) agreed by the Serious...
Jul 05, 2019 The Famous Five: the SFO agrees a fifth deferred prosecution agreement By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) agreed the fifth ever deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) in the UK on Thursday 4 July. It was approved...
Feb 25, 2019 Serious Fraud Office drops two major bribery investigations By Neill Blundell The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has dropped its investigations into individuals at Rolls Royce PLC and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The decision...
Feb 05, 2019 Material seized during a criminal investigation is disclosable in civil proceedings - case law update By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs Under section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987, the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has various investigation powers. In...
Jan 23, 2019 Three's company: third Tesco executive acquitted in SFO prosecution By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs At the end of last year we commented on a defeat in the courts for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) as the charges against two former Tesco...
Dec 07, 2018 Another setback for the SFO as the case against Tesco executives collapses By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) suffered another defeat in the courts yesterday as the charges of fraud and false accounting they had...
Dec 04, 2018 The successful conclusion of the SFO's first DPA By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced at the end of last week that its first deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) has been...
Nov 20, 2018 Corporates in the dock: Is “failure to prevent economic crime” now inevitable? By Neill Blundell Francis Bond Sir Brian Leveson and Lisa Osofsky today called for an expansion of corporate criminal liability in front of the ongoing House of Lords...
Nov 12, 2018 Another message from the SFO - do not underestimate the value of self-reporting By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs At a conference last week, the joint head of fraud at the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Hannah von Dadelszen, delivered a clear message to...
Nov 09, 2018 Co-operate and Reform - Lisa Osofsky (director of the SFO) gives guidance on how to agree a DPA By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs Lisa Osofsky, director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), delivered a speech yesterday at the Trace European Forum and made some very...