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SOCPA: Immunity, leniency and white collar crime | Corker Binning
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[1] S188 Enterprise Act 2002 (as amended)
[2] Such an offender should presumably therefore ensure that their sentencing is postponed until after they have provided all their assistance. However this difference also provides an opportunity for an unscrupulous offender in that if he/she has been sentenced on the basis of their co-operation but subsequently it ceases, the prosecutor has no avenue pursuant to s74 (see s74(2)(a) to have the discounted sentence reviewed.
[3] So for murder the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment is disapplied.
[4] [2010] EWCA 1048
[5] FOIA requests for subsequent periods having been refused on disproportionate cost grounds.
[6] Although possibly this immunity was that granted by the SFO in its plea agreement with British Aerospace (BAe) in 2010. One of its clauses was a promise by the SFO not to prosecute anyone for any offence disclosed or not in relation to BAe bribery.
[7] “Sentence discounts under SOCPA”, October 2012
[8] [2007] EWCA 2290
[9] [2010] EWCA 1048
[10] D contended that “The only pragmatic way in which to secure the public interest is to recognise that what really matters to a “white collar” offender is the chance to avoid an immediate custodial sentence rather than to mitigate the length of it..” (Quoted in para 33 of the judgment).
[11] Mr Dougall had also admitted complicity in a scheme intended to corrupt foreign public officials
[12] [2011] EWCA 473
[13] Not for fraud offences but for conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office and phone hacking. Similar.
[14] And often no more than a charade
[16] So had H not pleaded guilty and co-operated with the SFO he would have been acquitted.
[17] Kerrison appealed his sentence. The Court of Appeal reduced by one year to three years. See FN 18
[18] See para 76 in R v Papachristos [2014] EWCA 1863
[19] [2015] EWCA 1824
[20] The Court observed however that this reduction would mean that L was subject to immediate release.
[21] So had S not pleaded guilty and co-operated with the CMA he would have been acquitted.
[22] Acquitted by the jury after less than an hour’s deliberation
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