Lord Ken Macdonald, former Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales, discusses a wide range of issues in this interview with the IBA's Rebecca Lowe, including: tackling financial fraud, cuts to the Serious Fraud Office, the UK's prosecution services, prosecuting companies and the problem of the UK’s ‘guiding mind’ concept, deferred prosecution agreements, the Leveson Inquiry, phone hacking, police reform, security v freedom, secret courts, extraordinary rendition and dealing with terrorism
Released on Aug 1, 2014
Interview with Rae Lindsay of Clifford Chance and Yasmin Batliwala of A4ID (Advocates for International Development), a global charity committed to ensuring legal support is available for those involved in the fight against poverty.
In this interview, they discuss the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and how they may apply to the legal world.
The IBA hosted a live webcast and Q&A with Cyril Shroff, Managing Partner at one of India’s leading law firms, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co (AMSS) in Mumbai, in April 2013.
Over his 30-year career he has seen the development of much of India’s corporate law and the growth of India into an Asian superpower. Shroff shared insight on such issues as the Indian economy and liberalisation of the Indian legal profession.