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The UK Government has legislated to permit a number of UK authorities to obtain search warrants to 'raid' a business premises.

The potential for a dawn raid to be executed against a company is an everyday reality for many businesses given the increasing criminalisation of business practices, more regulatory criminal offences and the proliferation of money laundering laws and regulations. The prospect of an intervention by the UK authorities is increasing since the introduction of the Bribery Act 2010 and the corporate offence of failure to prevent bribery, the corporate offence of failure to prevent tax evasion introduced by the Criminal Finances Act 2017, and expansion of corporate criminal liability and a new offence of failure to prevent fraud to be introduced as a result of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023).