Solicitor General: prosecution deals can work
Frances Gibb
The ground-work is done — now will it fly? Edward Garnier, QC is about to find out if his plans for the first US-style amnesties with corporate fraudsters will find favour. The Solicitor-General is
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The ground-work is done — now will it fly? Edward Garnier, QC is about to find out if his plans for the first US-style amnesties with corporate fraudsters will find favour. The Solicitor-General is promoting ground-breaking — if not controversial — proposals that would see companies escape prosecution in court. After months of talking with UK and US law firms; to NGOs such as Cafod, Oxfam; and to judges. a consultation paper is expected by Easter.

Garnier is at pains to insist that this is not a “get out of court” card for companies who have committed fraud, bribery or other offences.

“Prosecution can have a destabilising effecton a company; it is sometimes a blunt response. Obviously there are cases that are so serious that