Criminal Liability in Regulatory Contexts Responses - Law ...

Criminal Bar Association and Bar Council
1.340 Broadly welcome the aims of introducing rationality and principle into the use of
the criminal law in the regulatory context. As a general proposition, the
desirability of a reduction in the volume of criminal provisions, particularly those
that are seldom used, is uncontroversial. The real difficulty comes with the
method by which such laudable aims are to be achieved. It is against that
background that we advert to a number of practical difficulties which we consider,
in our experience of practice in this area, are likely to arise from some of the
proposals.
The Pensions Regulator
1.341 Concerned about the proposed approach to bring about a general reduction in
criminal offences in the regulatory context, particularly in relation to the
occupational pension regulatory framework if such proposals were implemented.
65