The Attorney General’s recent consultation paper on fraud put the two issues of law and the City on the same agenda.
As someone whose City of London Corporation role involves working 24 hours a day to ensure the future of the financial ‘Square Mile’, I am very aware of the vital role played in the City’s trillion-dollar success by the law, its processes and all the people who work in it. Bluntly put, the UK’s lead in financial services would not exist without the foundation of a pragmatic commercial law that is envied (and imitated) around the world.
