Banker cannot be named for legal reasons?

[55palfers]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29520685

Any ideas why not please?

Thanks

[Magic919]

I'd guess it's due to the other outstanding cases, but hopefully someone 'legal' can enlighten us.

[ging84]

There will be one rule for us and another for the rest of you
that is from the elitism act 1897

[anonymous-user]

I assume that this is because the same banker faces jury trial on other charges, so he or she won't be named until that trial is over, as otherwise the jury might be prejudiced by reporting of the guilty plea. That's just my educated guess.

[55palfers]

Thank you BV

[ellroy]

BV, if he's pleaded guilty could he be involved in some term of witness capacity as well that may prejudice other cases with people he worked with?

[anonymous-user]

Possibly. It would be a tricky call for defence counsel whether to seek to impeach the witness by putting to him or her that he had pleaded guilty to an offence.

[johnfm]

Surprised anyone pleaded guilty to this - unless they had a lot more compelling evidence than the various emails and Bloomberg messages where traders were asking setters for a slightly higher or lower rate.

Looking forward to the fraud charges against dodgy MPs...

[anonymous-user]

Look backward for those - several MPs and a peer or two have been convicted already.

[hajaba123]

He's been outed on Twitter surprise, surprise..... Seems the Mail didn't remove his name from the details embedded in the blurred photo

[Hol]

johnfm said:

Surprised anyone pleaded guilty to this - unless they had a lot more compelling evidence than the various emails and Bloomberg messages where traders were asking setters for a slightly higher or lower rate.

Looking forward to the fraud charges against dodgy MPs...

Im not surprised at all.

This was a bunch of individuals who broke the law and their own employers rules by colluding with other individuals.
They did so using emails and phone calls, all of which could be accessed after the fact.

[dmitsi]

They had no problems naming him and others back in February/March when he was first charged.