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Private costs, public gains – the reality of SFO policy
Self reporting and civil recovery are appealingly pragmatic elements of the new Serious Fraud Office approach but they leave individual suspects more exposed, warns Neill Blundell of Eversheds.
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
Private costs, public gains – the reality of SFO policy
Self reporting and civil recovery are appealingly pragmatic elements of the new Serious Fraud Office approach but they leave individual suspects more exposed, warns Neill Blundell of Eversheds.
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
SFO charges first executive with overseas corruption
Robert Dougall, former vice-president of DePuy International, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), been charged has with conspiracy to corrupt in the first criminal prosecution of an executive for overseas corruption brought by the..
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
SFO charges first executive with overseas corruption
Robert Dougall, former vice-president of DePuy International, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), been charged has with conspiracy to corrupt in the first criminal prosecution of an executive for overseas corruption brought by the..
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
Downside up
Timon Molloy, Editor
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
Downside up
Timon Molloy, Editor
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
Corporate identity theft: a forged signature may bind the company
It is trite law that contracts made by an agent within the scope of his actual or ostensible authority are binding on the principal, so that the principal’s liability on them is primary and personal. After the case of Alan Lovett [1], it seems that the same principle will apply to contracts in which the agent has forged the signature of his principal. Andrew Keltie and Charles Thomson of Baker & McKenzie analyse this case of ‘corporate identity theft’.
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
Corporate identity theft: a forged signature may bind the company
It is trite law that contracts made by an agent within the scope of his actual or ostensible authority are binding on the principal, so that the principal’s liability on them is primary and personal. After the case of Alan Lovett [1], it seems that the same principle will apply to contracts in which the agent has forged the signature of his principal. Andrew Keltie and Charles Thomson of Baker & McKenzie analyse this case of ‘corporate identity theft’.
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
Keep the red flags flying
Internal threats from rogue employees are pernicious but tried and tested alert mechanisms offer effective defence as Les Dobie of Grant Thornton describes.
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
Keep the red flags flying
Internal threats from rogue employees are pernicious but tried and tested alert mechanisms offer effective defence as Les Dobie of Grant Thornton describes.
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
An AMECable arrangement
Jeremy Summers, Partner, Russell Jones & Walker (+44 (0) 20 7657 1786, J.Summers@rjw.co.uk, www.rjw.co.uk) © Jeremy Summers December 2009.
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
An AMECable arrangement
Jeremy Summers, Partner, Russell Jones & Walker (+44 (0) 20 7657 1786, J.Summers@rjw.co.uk, www.rjw.co.uk) © Jeremy Summers December 2009.
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
US surge
Bill Waite is Group Chief Executive Officer, The Risk Advisory Group (+44 (0) 20 7578 0000, Bill.Waite@riskadvisory.net)
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
US surge
Bill Waite is Group Chief Executive Officer, The Risk Advisory Group (+44 (0) 20 7578 0000, Bill.Waite@riskadvisory.net)
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
Pulling it all together – systems, rules and case management
A large organisation is likely to run multiple fraud detection tools; the problem lies less in generating alerts, although sifting the genuine from false positives is a challenge, than in how to read across the diverse outputs. Business process..
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
Pulling it all together – systems, rules and case management
A large organisation is likely to run multiple fraud detection tools; the problem lies less in generating alerts, although sifting the genuine from false positives is a challenge, than in how to read across the diverse outputs. Business process..
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
Too good to be true?
Andrew Watt is Managing Director, Tax Disputes & Investigations, Alvarez & Marsal Taxand UK, LLP (+ 44 (0) 20 7715 5200, awatt@alvarezandmarsal.com)
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009
Too good to be true?
Andrew Watt is Managing Director, Tax Disputes & Investigations, Alvarez & Marsal Taxand UK, LLP (+ 44 (0) 20 7715 5200, awatt@alvarezandmarsal.com)
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21 December 2009
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Dec 09 / Jan 10 - 01 December 2009