Forensic Integrity, Evidence Preservation and Digital Discovery

Forensic integrity and evidence preservation constitute, in any material internal or external investigative context, the critical precondition for a defensible factual record. Absent demonstrable control over the entire lifecycle of digital and physical information—from the point of initial indication through to final closure—there is a structural risk that relevant material…

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Internal Investigations and Board-Level Oversight Responsibilities

Internal investigations subject to board-level oversight sit at the intersection of governance, procedural discipline and reputational protection. In that environment, an investigation is assessed not only by reference to its ultimate findings, but equally by reference to the defensibility of the pathway by which those findings were reached. The quality…

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Cross-Border Investigations and Multi-Agency Cooperation

In multi-jurisdictional investigations, early structuring of the matter largely determines overall manageability, predictability, and outcome certainty. Complexity rarely arises solely from the underlying fact pattern; rather, it is driven by the concurrent operation of different jurisdictional hooks, supervisory cultures, evidentiary regimes, information asymmetries, and disclosure dynamics. An effective approach therefore…

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Regulatory Enforcement Trends in Financial and Economic Crime

Enforcement in the field of financial and economic crime is rapidly evolving into a discipline in which formal compliance is merely the starting point and demonstrable effectiveness is the decisive benchmark. Supervisory authorities and law enforcement agencies are visibly moving towards an approach in which governance, culture, and behavioural incentives…

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Corporate Criminal Liability and Executive Accountability

Corporate criminal liability and executive accountability go to the heart of contemporary corporate criminal-law risks: the question of how conduct that, in fact, is brought about by natural persons, teams, or chains of decision-making can be legally attributed to a legal entity, and under what circumstances directors, supervisors, and key…

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