THE STATUTES AND OTHER TEXTS
2.It is convenient to set out the relevant statutory materials, and certain other texts, before explaining the facts.
The 1987 Act
3.The Serious Fraud Office (“the SFO”) and its Director were established by the 1987 Act. S.1(3) provides:“The Director may investigate any suspected offence which appears on reasonable grounds to involve serious or complex fraud.”
- LORD JUSTICE LAWS
- Judgment
- Laws LJ:
- THE STATUTES AND OTHER TEXTS
- Under s.1(4) he may conduct such an investigation in conjunction with the police or with any other person who is in his opinion a proper person to be concerned. S.1(5) provides:
- THE FACTS
- Southampton
- Paragraph 23 specifically alleges that the defendants:
- THE ISSUES – OVERVIEW
- THE JUDICIAL REVIEW
- THE STATUTORY APPEALS
- THE APPEAL AGAINST THE DISTRICT JUDGE
- THE APPEAL AGAINST THE SECRETARY OF STATE