AIC Conference Proceedings

No. 10: Complex commercial fraud : proceedings of a conference held 20-23 August 1991

Peter N Grabosky (ed)
ISBN 0 642 16992 6 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1992

Abstract

One of the objectives of this conference was to describe the new countermeasures which have been mobilised to combat complex commercial fraud in Australia. Representatives of agencies such as the Australian Securities Commission, the National Crime Authority and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions discussed the directions they are taking to tackle the problem of fraud. Other papers address such timely topics as penalties appropriate to fraud offenders, and the responsibility of professional advisers for the prevention, detection and rectification of client fraud.

Contents

• Preface
• Keynote address
  Dean Wells
• Fraud and the liability of company directors
  Brent Fisse
• The Australian Securities Commission and the prevention of fraud
  Stephen Menzies
• Auditors and the reporting of illegality and financial fraud
  Roman Tomasic
• The responsibility of lawyers for the prevention, detection and rectification of client fraud
  John Dowd
• Professional advisers and white-collar illegality : towards explaining and excusing professional failure
  Peter Grabosky
• The investigation of fraud
  Leigh Warnick
• The National Crime Authority and the investigation of fraud
  Gary Livermore
• International aspects of investigating complex commercial frauds
  Bruce Bannerman
• Prosecuting complex commercial fraud
  Paul Evans
• Issues in the defence of charges relating to fraud
  Michael Rozenes
• Penalties for white-collar crime
  John Braithwaite
• Confiscating the proceeds of white-collar crime
  Arie Freiberg
• Media coverage of complex commercial Fraud
  Anne Lampe
• Responding to fraud in the 1990s
  Kevin Zervos