This content is contributed or sourced from third parties but has been subject to Finextra editorial review. It was just over a decade ago that a strange new beast entered the UK’s legal scene.

In their White-Collar Crime column, Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan Sack address two recent developments that reflect a significant shift in attitude toward the role of deferred prosecution agreements.

Feb. 28—A Columbia Falls man accused of threatening his son with a gun in the summer of 2023 later received a deferred prosecution agreement. Prosecutors charged Stephen Michael Halley with felony ...

The Boeing logo is seen on the side of a Boeing 737 MAX at the Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, Britain, July 20, 2022. automation The Department of Justice has notified a federal ...

A Kalispell man accused of harassing his neighbors and who sparked a standoff inside the Flathead County Justice Center in 2023 later received a deferred prosecution agreement. Prosecutors brought ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahoma’s attorney general is pushing back against claims he cut a deal to let a former Garfield County judge avoid trial for an alleged drive-by shooting—telling News 4 no ...

Matthew L. Schwartz and Matthew Getz write: Over the past few years, there has been a quiet revolution in the state of corporate criminal law in the United Kingdom, as the country approaches ever ...

Last week, I blogged about how Boeing had confessed to committing a deadly conspiracy crime connected with the two 737 MAX crashes and should now plead guilty to the charge pending against it. In that ...