SFO rebuked for overreaching: no power to seek overseas documents from non-UK companies

The Supreme Court has decided the Serious Fraud Office does not have the power to issue a section 2 notice to a non-UK company with extraterritorial application. It can, however, continue to compel production of documents held extraterritorially by UK companies: The Queen on the application of KBR Inc v The Director of the Serious Fraud Office [2021] UKSC 2, 5 February 2021....
By: Allen & Overy LLP

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