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I would only like to add that the Commercial Crime thit has

undertaken in recent years a substantial number of prosecutions arising

those out of complex commercial fraud. In the year period 1984-1986 the

Commercial Crime Unit has prosecuted 44 cases in the High Court

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resulting in 83 persons convicted and % acquitted.

these

Most of these cases

have been lengthy and complex involving suspected fraud of hundreds of

millions of dollars. Many of them were cases of conspiracy to

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less I can assure Members, just as I assured Dr La Sparkly

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that where there are lessons to be learned from the Carrian case, they

will not be lost on the Commercial Crime Unit.

Localisation of Legal Department ":

Sir, may I turn to the localisation of the Legal Department. My hon. and learned Friend

Mr. Martin Lee drew attention to the need to attract more

bilingual lawyers into the Legal Department.

Let me assure him that

I regard localisation as the single most important management issue my department is facing at the present time. Anyone who has studied the discussion paper which the Law Officers and I released to all counsel

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last June must be aware of the considerable effort that went into its

preparation and of our determination to promote measures which will increase the speed of localisation in the Department. proposed as a target for localisation that by 1992,30 of the directorate posts and 50 of the Senior Crown Counsel posts should be held by local counsel. We have recently completed a comprehensive report for the Inter-Departmental Working Group on how these targets may be achieved. I have no doubt that the views we have expressed will assist them in their work and I hope that they will be able to conclude

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their deliberations swiftly.

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