My right hon. Friend is making an important point. I have looked at these amendments. Is not the best way to achieve his aim to make this offence a strict liability one, which does not require a state of mind and simply involves a set of facts having been established? There could be a reverse burden, whereby the subject demonstrates that they have not acted unlawfully. Strict liability might be the best way to achieve his aim.
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Robert Buckland
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 7 March 2022.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill.
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