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Joe Shaulis
"A report [PDF text] released by UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith [official profile] recommends longer sentences and increased use of plea bargaining in fraud cases. The report, the result of a Fraud Review [official backgrounder] begun last year, also suggests consolidating civil, criminal and regulatory fraud proceedings in a single court specializing in white-collar crime. The recommendations follow several prominent fraud cases in which prosecutors have failed to win convictions, including the trial [Times report] of six men charged with corruption involving the Jubilee Line extension to the London Underground. The Fraud Bill [parliamentary materials; BBC backgrounder] pending in Parliament would clarify definitions of fraud and allow more cases to be heard by judges rather than juries. BBC News has more. The Financial Times has additional coverage.
