18 October 2023
Red Lion Chambers barrister Jonathan Fisher KC has been appointed by the Ministry of Justice to lead an independent review into the disclosure regime and fraud offences
Fisher will look into the efficiency and effectiveness of the disclosure regime and whether current fraud offences meet the challenges of prosecuting modern fraud.
The last independent review of fraud was held in 1986, prior to the development of the world wide web. Accordingly, a key objective of the report is to ‘focus on disclosure application for crime types with a large volume of digital material’. The review ‘will also assess the Attorney General’s Guidelines on Disclosure and consider legislative and non-legislative modifications that could improve the regime’.
Fisher must report back with disclosure recommendations by summer 2024 and with fraud offences recommendations by spring 2025.
