What does 2019 have in store for white-collar defence in the UK? In this GT Alert, we list our top 5 predictions relating to Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Director Lisa Osofsky, who indicated various areas of focus for her tenure; Brexit and the potential loss of the European Arrest Warrant regime and the U.K.’s access to EU shared crime agency databases; U.K. criminal law and corporate criminal liability; litigation privilege in the context of an internal criminal investigation, and extraterritoriality in terms of the SFO’s power to compel overseas companies to produce material; and transatlantic collaboration – we expect an increasingly U.S. approach to the way the SFO operates.
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