Emergency Reform: Export Licensing after the Scott Report

Abstract

The Arms to Iraq inquiry by Sir Richard Scott, Vice Chancellor of the Supreme Court, has recommended a comprehensive review of the system of export licensing. The inquiry was set up after the failed prosecution of directors of a machine tool manufacturer, Matrix Churchill, was abandoned. It had been alleged that the directors had deceived the Government as to the intended use of machine tools that were exported to Iraq in the late 1980s. The Scott Report provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the licensing system and makes trenchant recommendations for its reform.

Citation

Harwood, R. (1997), "Emergency Reform: Export Licensing after the Scott Report", Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 245-246. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb025786