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> if you're in a Civil Law legislation there's a good chance that your country requires you to report ongoing crimes once you gain knowledge about them

Does anyone have any citations for this please? (I'm especially interested in English law, but any other country is fine too.)




English law is common law. For further reading I recommend the following two Wikipedia links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)

It seems that at least in the United States there's quite a broad range of things that courts consider as "conspiracy". For example, a few years ago Reinhard Berkau (a German lawyer) was sentenced to prison in the US, because of a crime one of his clients did. He also published a book on his experiences (unfortunately in German only) in case you're interested in the background.




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