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SO Tony Blair is determined to ditch the 1960s liberal social consensus on law and order and crack down hard on crime and anti- social behaviour. Does our prime minister's determination to build a society based on "rules, order and proper behaviour" extend to the worlds of finance and business, I wonder?
As Blair was launching his latest five-year plan of attack on those who blight community life, the Serious Fraud Office was publishing its latest annual report. That suggests attempts to curb crime in the boardroom and the dealing room in Britain may, in some respects, be going backwards.See the full content of this document
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Only the Corporate Crime Cliches Are Hanged or Flogged
In 2003/04, a total of 14 SFO cases came to trial involving, in all, 39 defendants. Of these, 20 individuals were convicted, half of them having pled guilty. However, the other 19 were acquitted, either by juries or...
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