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‘Loser pays’ rule responsible for shameful record on economic crime, UK lawmakers hear

By Phoebe Seers ( October 26, 2022, 09:17 GMT | Insight) -- The Kremlin critic and financier Bill Browder has urged UK lawmakers to amend a draft law aimed at combating economic crime to overturn a long-established civil procedural rule that says that the loser should pay the winner's costs in civil cases. Browder said it was “plain as day” that reforming the rule for cases brought by the government would remove the economic disincentive that inhibits UK law enforcement from pursuing risky cases.The Kremlin critic and financier Bill Browder has urged UK lawmakers to amend a draft law to combat economic crime to overturn a long-established civil procedural rule that says that the loser should pay the winner's costs in civil cases....

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