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Baker & McKenzie Law Office Akira Inoue Seminar Report on "How to Use Judicial Transactions Learned from Recent Cases"

2019/2/26
Corporate Communication Department
Baker & McKenzie "How to use judicial transactions learned from recent cases" seminar by Dr. Akira Inoue, Ph.D., a partner lawyer in New York, will be held in Tokyo on February 2019, 2. It was held.At the venue, corporate legal officers and compliance officers were asked to learn how the judicial transactions, which had just begun to operate in Japan, were applied in the latest case, and what the institutional system is like. , Internal auditors, etc., packed with more than 20 people. "Criminal Procedure Code Article 350-2-350-15", also known as the Japanese version of the Code of Criminal Procedure, was newly established by the revision of the Code of Criminal Procedure in 2016 and has been in force since June 2018 (http://www.moj.go.jp/content/001149703.pdf).Professor Inoue, who served as a lecturer, has experience in 12 judicial transactions in the United States and 1 in Japan. At this seminar, the operation of the Japanese version of judicial transactions based on the latest cases (actually how to operate) (Practical talk), and what kind of preparations legal professionals should prepare in the future were made.As a concrete example, I will review the outline of the case that everyone knows, and among the fraudulent acts that have been made public, those that were actually subject to prosecution, those that were not, and the purpose of the judicial transaction that can be seen from there The aim was explained.In the subsequent operational explanation, while explaining the differences between the US and Japanese judicial transactions and how to proceed, Professor Inoue actually witnessed an episode of testimony in the US judicial transactions. There was a roaring voice from the venue.In addition, based on the case of judicial transactions with the US federal government, it is important to quickly secure objective evidence not only in Japan but also overseas in order to succeed in judicial transactions. It was emphasized.It is a judicial transaction that is still in its infancy in Japan, but now that the business is expanding globally, we do not know when it will become a party.I was seriously listening to the real story of how the Legal Department would be involved in judicial transactions because I am a legal officer at a company that realizes this.
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