forgery

Nine people charged over A4E fraud

October 1, 2013

The Crown Prosecution Service has reported that nine people are to be charged over allegations of fraud at welfare-to-work company Action 4 Employment (“A4E”). The charges were brought after the nine A4E employees were accused by their employer of defrauding it of incentive payments relating to putting unemployed persons in work. Under their contracts of […]

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What is the offence of forgery?

February 18, 2013

Forgery is an offence which often crops up in the news (for example, the recent charging of Sir David Jones with a forgery-related offence or the suspended sentence that a police officer received after forging a statement). However, although the public has an abstract understanding of what forgery entails, there’s a lack of knowledge as […]

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