Butterworths Corporate Crime webinars programme offers legal practitioners an opportunity to hear the latest developments and best practice from the leading experts in the field. Designed to convey important relevant information to corporate and criminal lawyers alike, the programme focuses on key areas of topical interest in this rapidly developing field. The new Bribery Act and prosecution
guidance will be discussed, with a separate webinar dedicated exclusively to what policies and procedures you should put in place to prevent bribery and corruption. We will assess the latest developments in money laundering and tax fraud, with particular emphasis on VAT, as well as the new investigation and prosecution landscape for serious fraud cases. Two separate webinars will look at confiscation and restraint orders, examining what concepts such as ‘benefit’ and ‘realisable property’ mean and how these orders are obtained.
Forthcoming Webinars
Here is the schedule of forthcoming webinars for this practice area.
On Demand Webinars
Here is a list of previously broadcast webinars that are now available on demand.
1st Feb 2011
Money Laundering
This webinar covers:
Suspicious Activity Reporting
• SARs as viewed from SOCA's Helpdesk.
• SOCA's approach to consent cases.
• Feedback, costs and benefits.
• Suspicion: suspect persons, suspect property.
• Internal reports and the role of the MLRO.
• Submitting SARs to SOCA and dealing with SOCA in consent cases.
• Banks and their customers: managing conflicting obligations.
1st Mar 2011
Revenue Fraud
This webinar covers:
• What is Revenue Fraud?
• How does it materialise?
• Update on HMRC's brand new approach to fraud
- Amnesties
- the new penalty regime
- Prosecutions - a more aggressive approach ?
Tax and Fraud
• Range MTIC to careless returns
• When report is needed
• Tax planning gone wrong or more needed?
• Who advises?
5th Apr 2011
Fraud Prevention in the Boardroom
This webinar covers:
• How can directors incur criminal liability?
• What obligations are there to self-report fraud?
• What risk management steps should a board implement to mitigate the risk of both corporate and personal criminal liability?
• How should a board react when they become aware of fraud.
• Responsibilities of the Board - what are the duties, obligations and potential liabilities of individual directors in relation to fraud and financial crime prevention.
• The regulated sector - what additional obligations apply to the senior management of regulated sector firms.
• Establishing effective anti-fraud controls - how to establish controls to mitigate fraud risks and how to monitor and enforce controls once established.
• What lessons can be learnt from cases where things have gone wrong.
• Anti-bribery systems and controls - what constitutes adequate procedures to prevent bribery and corruption risk and how to ensure compliance with anti-bribery legislation.
4th May 2011
LPP Issues
This webinar covers:
• Legal privilege – application generally in criminal cases and in internal company investigations
• When it does not apply - furthering a criminal purpose
• Legal privilege and money laundering – when to report to SOCA in the lawyer/client context
• Accountants and privilege – SOCA reports and relevant professional advisors
• Search warrants, production orders, other compulsory powers and privilege – position of non lawyers
20th Jun 2011
Bribery – the new law
This webinar covers:
- The Bribery Act – key provisions
- Ministry of Justice guidance
- The investigation process
- How will the Serious Fraud Office enforce the Act?
- Ensuring organisations comply and avoid prosecution
12th Sep 2011
Adequate policies and procedures for bribery and corruption prevention
The Bribery Act came into force in July 2011, putting the onus on companies to ensure that they have put adequate policies and procedures in place to prevent bribery and corruption. Companies should ignore the new rules at their peril. Our expert speakers will discuss the appropriate procedures to implement and explore the implications of the Act for corporate governance.
This webinar covers:
- Should the anti-bribery policy be tick-box compliance systems or substantial corporate governance
- Should companies implement procedures that are only adequate?
- Facilitation payments and corporate hospitality: The latest Steer
- Is the 2011 guidance from government any real use?
- How will the law be enforced?
3rd Oct 2011
Tax fraud
In the 2010 Spending Review, George Osborne promised to invest £900 million to ‘tackle tax avoidance, evasion, fraud and debt.’ With HMRC’s renewed interest in tax fraud, prosecutions are on the rise. Our expert speakers offer you the most cutting-edge advice on regulatory and legal developments as well as top tips on compliance from their own experience.
This webinar covers:
- Overview of tax fraud
- Effect on the economy
- Race against VAT fraud
- The future
30th Nov 2011
Confiscation orders
The purpose of a confiscation order is to deprive the defendant of the proceeds of his or her crime. For the confiscation order to be issued, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 requires the Court to decide if the defendant has a criminal lifestyle and, if so, to calculate the benefit they have gained from the general criminal conduct. If it decides that he or she does not have a criminal lifestyle, the Court will calculate the benefit from particular criminal conduct. However what constitutes benefit and how it is calculated is open to a wide range of interpretations. Our expert speakers will debate these complex issues and offer you practical tips on how best to address this challenging area of law.
This webinar covers:
- The modern law of 'benefit'
- Statutory definition of 'benefit'
- A 'sea-change' of judicial thinking and approach towards the notion of 'benefit'
- Principles that underpin the current judicial approach towards 'benefit'
- Practical examples of what constitutes 'benefit'
- Avoiding pitfalls of reasoning when determining the issue of 'benefit'
- Apportioning benefit between defendants who are jointly charged and convicted
- The standard of proof to show assets are less than benefit
- Dealing with third party interests
- Consequences of hidden assets findings
