The UK Government has Toughened its Fraud Laws. Now it Must Make Them Count

CLLS Corporate Crime & Corruption Committee Chair Louise Hodges and Vice-Chair Neill Blundell write that Jonathan Fisher KC’s Fraud in the Digital Age report delivered a clear warning about the scale of fraud in the U.K. The government must now turn its law into credible enforcement. Particularly given that only one in every hundred reported frauds leads to a criminal justice outcome. At those odds, the threat of prosecution offers little credible deterrence.