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Can't pay Information Commissioner's fine? No problem! Just liquidate your firm

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"And there are provisions in the companies act for holding company directors personally liable for illegal acts, but the problem is that the ICO can't be arsed taking it through the courts to get a precedent that sticks."

Don't know if it's laziness, or a lack of funding. Court cases are expensive (especially those that go near the High Court), and the ICO don't appear to have much money - they're having recruitment issues due to not being able to offer comparable salaries, and like most of the regulatory agencies (e.g. Trading Standards), they've had a funding squeeze of late.

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