Collective Knowledge and the Limits of the Expanded Identification Doctrine.

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 expanded the identification doctrine in welcome ways, but, I argue, does not go far enough. Specifically, I contend that the Act's reforms do not sufficiently respond to the threat of senior managers who culpably interfere in the proper flow of information within the company to orchestrate harmful or risky practices by others, all while seeking to avoid liability by preventing any individual from forming the full of any economic crime. How should the criminal law respond to this gap? I argue it would be problematic to respond by extending individual liability even further-say, by expanding the already 'disturbingly wide' inchoate offences in the Serious Crime Act 2007.