“Any review of the UK bribery laws which came into force in July 2011 would be ‘premature’, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Review into Bribery Act would be ‘premature’, says expert – OUT-LAW.com
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Civil recovery still an option in cases of complex fraud or bribery, SFO confirms – OUT-LAW.com
“The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) remains open to pursuing civil recovery where appropriate in cases of serious or complex fraud, including bribery and corruption offences, it has confirmed.”
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd April 2013
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Student jailed for £5,000 attempt to bribe professor over failed dissertation – The Independent
“A failing student who offered his professor £5,000 in cash in a bid to pass his degree was jailed for 12 months today.”
The Independent, 23rd April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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Secret commissions and proprietary claims – where are we now? – 11 Stone Buildings
“Practitioners were trained to believe that an agent would hold a bribe on trust for his principal. Then came Sinclair v Versailles which appeared to have decided that the principal’s remedy would be merely personal. Now everything seems to have changed again. In this ‘Insider’ note Peter Head examines the Court of Appeal’s recent decision in FHR European Ventures LLP v Mankarious and considers where we are now.”
Full story (PDF)
11 Stone Buildings, March 2013
Source: www.11sb.com
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Bungs in Football – The Legal Goalposts for Clubs, Managers and Agents – 11 KBW
“On Tuesday 19 September 2006, BBC’s Panorama made a number of allegations about corruption in football. The most serious allegations concern the alleged widespread bribery of football club directors, managers and scouts by agents seeking to place the players for whom they act.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 19th February 2013
Source: www.11kbw.com
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Deferred Prosecution Agreements – Sir Anthony Hooper, Former Lord Justice of Appeal – Fulcrum Chambers
“Since the early 90s US prosecuting authorities have been using deferred prosecution agreements. They are said to raise about $2.5bn a year in penalties, often in respect of criminal activities with little connection to the US. A deferred prosecution agreements involves the filing in court of agreed charges against a corporation, subject to a condition that the charges will not be pursued if the corporation complies with the often stringent terms of the agreement for a specified period. Such terms will include the payment of substantial sums to reflect broadly the fine that would have been paid had the corporation pleaded guilty and to reflect the confiscation and compensation regimes. Corporations are likely also to have to agree to the appointment of a monitor to ensure their adherence to proper standards of behaviour.”
Fulcrum Chambers, January 2013
Source: www.fulcrumchambers.com
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New tool to fight economic crime – Ministry of Justice
“A new measure announced today [23 October] will help prosecutors combat corporate offending including fraud, money laundering and bribery – which cost the UK billions of pounds each year.”
Ministry of Justice, 23rd October 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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Solicitor General: Keynote speech to World Bribery and Corruption Compliance Forum – Attorney General’s Office
Solicitor General: Keynote speech to World Bribery and Corruption Compliance Forum
Attorney General’s Office, 23rd October 2012
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
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SFO removes preference for civil settlement from Bribery Act self-reporting guidance – OUT-LAW.com
“Businesses that ‘self-report’ illegal acts of bribery to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) could still face prosecution in cases where there is a ‘reasonable prospect of conviction’ and if it is ‘in the public interest’ to do so, the SFO has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th October 2012
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R v Patel: sentencing offences contrary to the Bribery Act 2010 – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“The first prosecution under the Bribery Act 2010 to reach the Court of Appeal has arrived. However, it is perhaps not the high-profile scalp that the proponents of the Act might have wanted. I’m not too sure how much can be taken from the case that is of any wider application but nevertheless, it being ‘a first’, it may be of some interest. In any event the facts of the case are less dry than most.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 23rd July 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
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Oxford University Press fined £1.9m over bribery by African subsidiary firms – The Guardian
“Oxford University Press, the global academic publishing department of the university, has been ordered to pay nearly £1.9m after two subsidiary companies bribed government officials for contracts to supply school textbooks in east Africa.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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Three jailed for £9m Sainsbury’s potato scam – The Guardian
“Three men have been jailed for a scam in which Sainsbury’s was overcharged by nearly £9m.”
The Guardian, 22nd June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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Combating corruption in a global business environment – forthcoming HLE panel discussion – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“According to the Ministry of Justice, it was hoped that the Bribery Act 2010 would ‘provide a more effective legal framework to combat bribery in the public or private sectors’ and ‘help tackle the threat that bribery poses to economic progress and development around the world’.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 20th June 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
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Regina v Majeed; Regina v Westfield – WLR Daily
Regina v Majeed; Regina v Westfield [2012] EWCA Crim 1186; [2012] WLR (D) 172
“Where a sportsman corruptly accepted financial inducements to identify, in advance, occasions when during a match he would play in a specific, previously agreed, manner, the conduct of that sportsman, whose contract obliged him to refrain from doing anything that might damage the reputation of the club or board which employed him, was integral to the affairs and business of that club or board, who were therefore victims of such corrupt activities, even if the bribes were not intended to and did not influence the club or board in any way.”
WLR Daily, 31st May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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Corporate hospitality, bribery and the Olympics – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“Corporate hospitality might have been expected to have a bumper season this year. But apparently such is not the case. A number of companies, it is reported, are refusing to allow their staff to accept ticketsto the Olympics, lest they fall foul of the Bribery Act 2010. Commendable restraint, one might think, but let’s take a closer look.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 8th June 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
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Court clerk who was first to be jailed under Bribery Act has sentence cut – The Guardian
“A court clerk who made legal history when he became the first person to be jailed under new bribery legislation has had his sentence reduced by two years.”
The Guardian, 24th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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Potato company boss faces jail over Sainsbury’s scam – The Guardian
“A former potato firm director has been told he faces a significant jail term for his role in a bribery scam with a buyer at Sainsbury’s.”
The Guardian, 15th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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Stephen Lawrence murder: Police corruption inquiry – BBC News
“Scotland Yard has called in the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to review fresh allegations of corruption in the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry.”
BBC News, 11th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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Lack of major prosecution under Bribery Act does not mean the new laws are not being enforced, expert warns – OUT-LAW.com
“Organisations that believe anti-corruption laws introduced in the UK last year are not being enforced are too blasé and risk falling foul of the rules, an expert has said. Meanwhile, managers have claimed that the laws put UK firms at a disadvantage.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
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