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Biggest reform of UK’s identification doctrine in more than 50 years

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Reforms will make it easier to prosecute companies for economic crime offences committed by their senior employees.

The UK Government has proposed radical reforms to corporate criminal liability for the first time in more than 50 years by making it easier to prosecute companies for economic crime offences committed by their senior employees.

The amendment to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the Bill) would replace the common

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