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01 September 2023 / Peter Binning
Issue: 8038 / Categories: Features , Fraud , Criminal
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Book review: Kingsley Napley & 6KBW College Hill: Serious Fraud, Investigation & Trial (5th edition)

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"The contents of this new edition cover every aspect of the modern fraud lawyer’s practice"
  • Author: Alun Milford & Paul Jarvis
  • Publisher: LexisNexis Butterworths
  • ISBN: 9781474323352
  • RRP: £295

Criminal fraud lawyers of a certain age have grown up with this book. This is the generation that was a bit too young to have been fully qualified when the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) came into being in July 1987, and those who can just about remember the Guinness, Blue Arrow and Maxwell trials of the 1990s. It was a pioneering work by David Kirk and Tony Woodcock which ran to three editions from 1992 onwards until it was taken over in its fourth by Stephen Gentle, Louise Hodges and a team from Kingsley Napley. This remains an essential volume for every practitioner in this developing field of the law.

Significant developments

In all those years since the first edition, there has been enormous change in the world of serious fraud. Legal aid has been cut

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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NEWS
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The government’s plan to curb jury trials has sparked ‘jury furore’. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke, partner at Hill Dickinson, says the rationale is ‘grossly inadequate’
NLJ this week: Crypto fightback offers ‘new frontier for law’
A year after the $1.5bn Bybit heist, crypto fraud is booming—but so is recovery. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Holloway, founder and CEO of M2 Recovery, warns that scams hit at least $14bn in 2025, fuelled by ‘pig butchering’ cons and AI deepfakes
NLJ this week: Time to revive the duty to report crime?
After Woodcock confirmed no general duty to warn, debate turns to the criminal law. Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group urges revival of misprision or a modern equivalent
NLJ this week: When are experts truly ‘necessary’?
Family courts are tightening control of expert evidence. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Chris Pamplin says there is ‘no automatic right’ to call experts; attendance must be ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ under FPR Pt 25
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