Financial Crime and Corporate Misconduct

Chris Monaghan is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester. He is the Research Lead for the School of Law and the Deputy LLB Programme Leader. His research interests include fraud and property offences, legal history and public law. Since 2009, he has published on the Fraud Act 2006 and the issue of criminalising parents who provide misleading information on school application forms. His research has been published in the Criminal Law Review and the Journal of Criminal Law. Nicola Monaghan is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester. She is a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple and teaches criminal law and the law of evidence. She is the author of Criminal Law Directions (Oxford University Press) and Law of Evidence (Cambridge University Press) amongst other books. Her research interests include juror misconduct and compensation for miscarriages of justice and she has published articles on these areas. The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Law Reform Commission of Ireland have cited her research on jury misconduct. She also co-founded the Blackstone's National Criminal Advocacy Competition and has taught advocacy to undergraduate students since 2002.

1: A critical commentary on the Fraud Act 2006; 2: The Fraud Act’s 10th anniversary: time to celebrate? Not quite?; 3: An empirical review of the use of the Fraud Act 2006 and other criminal offences within the school application system; 4: Food fraud and the Fraud Act 2006: complementarity and limitations; 5: Fraud in the twenty first century: is the criminal law fit for purpose?; 6: The Fraud Act 2006: a decade of deception?; 7: Criminal fraud legislation since 2006; 8: Revisiting dishonesty: the new strict liability criminal offence for offshore tax evaders; 9: Brexit and financial crime; 10: Do we need a failure to prevent fraud offence?; 11: A judge’s perspective of the impact of the Fraud Act 2006; 12: The fraudster at work: the interaction of the criminal justice process with the operation of an employer’s disciplinary procedures; 13: Who should try ‘complex fraud trials’? Reconsidering the composition of the tribunal of fact 30 years after Roskill; 14: Good character directions: some implications of Hunter for Fraud Act 2006 prosecutions;