Comments on: Rowan Bosworth-Davies | Has the UK rediscovered its appetite for prosecuting ‘white collar’ crime?

By: Ian Fraser

Ian Fraser — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:48:57 +0000

I just found this Press Association article, via The Independent, from 29 July 1992 which suggests that there was more to the quashing of the Blue Arrow verdicts on appeal than Rowan makes out above:-

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/blue-arrow-trial-labelled-pounds-40m-disaster-1536262.html.

In particular the article refers to the decision of Mr Justice McKinnon, the trial judge in the original jury trial, one month before the jury retired, to restrict the case to the ‘late take-up’ issue and tell the jurors to ignore 75 per cent of the evidence as being the reason why the original guilty verdicts were potentially unsound.

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[...] Stacy’s Cat March 30, 2013 at 6:49 pm Yer the point about no more prosecutions made this Cat’s hair go up. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/blue-arrow-trial-labelled-pounds-40m-disaster-1536262.html ”The trial judge decided, a month before the jury retired, to restrict the case to the ‘late take-up’ issue and tell the jurors to ignore 75 per cent of the evidence. It was that decision that led the appeal judges to intervene. Lord Justice Mann said that the decision to sum up only in regard to late take-up constituted a ‘material irregularity’ in the course of the trial.” http://www.ianfraser.org/has-the-uk-rediscovered-its-long-lost-appetite-for-prosecuting-white-collar… [...]

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By: Ian Fraser

Ian Fraser — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:26:15 +0000

Thanks for this Sabine. And I agree that white collar crime has infected the professions. Indeed if the big banks and other financial institutions did not have the likes of PWC, KPMG and Deloitte to give false accounting etc the stamp of approval, they would really struggle. And don’t get me started on the lawyers!

By: sabine.mcneill

sabine.mcneill — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:15:20 +0000

Are you aware of the Early Day Motion (EDM) that was tabled asking to abolish the City of London Corporation because of abuse of power? http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2012-13/369

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism mentioned by the EDM has collated some interesting ‘money data’ about lobbyists. http://bit.ly/MriiTn

In my experience of watching victims of white collar crime, fraud takes place among ANY professional, not just in the financial sector. It is most embarrassing when committed by public authorities. But they are the last who seem to mind. Their policy always prefers to cover up than to admit to mistakes.