Regulation

How the SFO’s £3m disclosure tool fell apart

The City’s top cops are still clearing up the fallout from evidence search failures

How the SFO’s £3m disclosure tool fell apart
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A letter to defendants caught up in a review of potential disclosure failings by the Serious Fraud Office lays bare the concerns that plagued the prosecutors’ software systems.

Correspondence seen by Financial News shows how the tool could easily miss search terms, and that some SFO teams weren’t aware of guidance on how to avoid common failures in the system.

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