There are few better examples of public policy being used to cut through what might to many seem to be sound legal reasoning than in the recent decision of the House of Lords in Re Supply of Ready‐mixed Concrete (No. 2), Director General of Fair Trading v Pioneer Concrete (UK) and Another ....

On announcing the debacle of Barings, the Bank of England emphasised that the circumstances were ‘unique to Barings’ in an attempt to calm its effect on the rest of the financial community. But those in charge of banking and securities operations around the world must know that what has...

At a recent meeting of government officials in Trinidad to discuss regional security and in particular the threat of regional and, indeed, international dcstabilisation presented by the illicit drug trade, considerable attention was focused on the role of offshore financial centres in...

Japan introduced a new piece of legislation in 1992, designed to reform the financial system, the main feature of which was to ease the strict separation imposed on banks and securities companies under Article 65 of the Securities and Exchange Law of 1948 (SEL). The Japanese Government...

The Second African Conference on Economic Crime took place in Johannesburg from 17th to 19th July, 1996. The Conference was organised under the auspices of the Centre for International Documentation on Organised Crime (CIDOEC) by the Police Science Sub‐department of the University of South...