Four years of UK DPAs: an interim assessment of the new enforcement tool and its potential ramifications
Y. Jun, Esq. and mr. I.M. Braam1Artikel kopen € 79,00 excl. BTW
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1. Introduction
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in pre-trial diversion agreements among regulators worldwide, in tandem with the growing pursuit against corporate economic crimes. In the past two decades, such agreements had been left predominantly within the purview of US enforcement actions, and the UK authorities, in particular, had limited alternative tools to prosecution. However, since 2014, UK prosecutors are able to enter into deferred prosecution agreements (‘DPAs’) with commercial organisations. To date, four DPAs have been signed and approved by the Crown Court at Southwark (the ‘Court’).
DPAs are agreements between a prosecutor and a person whereby the prosecutor brings a charge against a person, but agrees to suspend the criminal proceedings for a pre-defined period of time, subject to certain terms included in the agreement. Upon the successful expiry of the DPA, the proceedings will be discontinued. If, on the other hand, any of the terms...
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