SFO CHIEF SAYS TRADITIONAL LITIGATOR TACTICS NO PLACE WITH DPAS
September 1st, 2016
The director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) David Green has said that the traditional tactics of the litigator have ‘no place’ in negotiations for a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA). Green’s comments came in a speech to the September 5 Cambridge Symposium on Electronic Crime, where he defended use of DPAs in Britain, following the first two such procedures involving Standard Bank and XYZ, with others “in the pipeline”. Green explained that the DPA process “is not about point-scoring or wearing down an opponent, it is about reaching a ...
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