Route mapped – corporate criminal liability reform

John Binns (+44 (0)20 7430 2277, jbinns@bcl.com) is a partner and Tom McNeill (+44 (0)20 7430 2277, tmcneill@bcl.com) a senior associate at BCL Solicitors LLP in London, specialising in financial crime.

On 10 June 2022, the Law Commission published an options paper [1] for the UK Government on how it can improve the law to ensure that corporations are effectively held to account for serious crimes that they or associated individuals commit. Tom McNeill and John Binns of BCL Solicitors analyse the change proposals.