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High Court paves way for increased penalties for corporate offending
What is the “value of the benefit” of corporate criminal offending? Should it be the gross benefit received by the offending corporate? Or should it be that sum with deductions for the offender’s costs? Those are the questions answered by the High Court in its recent decision in The King v Jacobs Group (Australia) Pty Ltd formerly known as Sinclair Knight Merz [2023] HCA 23.