‘Five men have been sentenced today (9 November 2023) over waste disposal contracts that resulted in losses of around £417,000 to Cardiff City Council.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 9th November 2023
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘The Bribery Act 2010 (the Act) came into force in April 2011, overhauling UK anti-bribery legislation.’
OUT-LAW.com, 18th August 2023
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Recent charges brought by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) highlight the need for businesses to be alert to the risk of bribes being solicited to move their projects forward, an expert in managing corruption risk has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th August 2023
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘An ex-Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years after taking bribes while policing London’s West End bars and clubs.’
BBC News, 18th July 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Plans have been submitted to modernise the identification doctrine, a legal principle which can hold corporations criminally liable for an offence.’
Home Office, 15th June 2023
Source: www.gov.uk
‘A rare sitting of the Election Court has agreed to withdraw a petition for a council election to be declared void after receiving “conclusive evidence” that the petitioner handed packets of dates to potential voters.’
Law Society's Gazette, 28th February 2023
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘In this post, Eilidh Douglas, Senior Associate in the ICE Disputes team at CMS, previews the case of Republic of Mozambique v Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) and Ors, which was heard by the UK Supreme Court on 24 and 25 January 2023.’
UKSC Blog, 26th January 2023
Source: ukscblog.com
‘The Security Industry Authority (SIA) is launching an inquiry into corruption allegations made following the crowd crush at the O2 Academy Brixton last month when two people died.’
The Independent, 18th January 2023
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The UK subsidiary of commodities trader Glencore was today ordered to pay £281 million in a fine, confiscation order and costs in the largest ever such penalty in a corporate criminal conviction. Glencore is the first business to be convicted under the Bribery Act 2010 for the active authorisation of bribery rather than a failure to prevent it.’
Law Society's Gazette, 3rd November 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Serious Fraud Office must prevent third parties having ‘direct access’ to the watchdog’s director and ensure all prosecutions have an “effective disclosure strategy”, a review into the calamitous Unaoil bribery case recommended today – as a third man jailed after the investigation had his name cleared.’
Law Society's Gazette, 21st July 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A second man jailed for three and a half years over a multimillion-dollar bribery conspiracy to secure oil infrastructure contracts in Iraq has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal.’
The Independent, 24th March 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Senior NHS officials accused of accepting £70,000 in bribes have been acquitted after their trial collapsed.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th March 2022
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has told Liverpool City Council to revisit whether it should grant an indemnity to its former elected mayor Joe Anderson to defend criminal allegations.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd August 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A multinational oil firm which was led by a major Conservative donor has been under investigation for allegedly paying million-pound bribes to secure contracts in nine countries. The anti-corruption agency the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been examining allegedly suspicious payments made by the UK-based firm Petrofac.’
The Guardian, 20th June 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A British businessman has been jailed for three and a half years after being convicted of conspiring to pay huge backhanders in one of the world’s biggest bribery scandals.’
The Guardian, 1st March 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘On 5 August 2020, the UK Supreme Court handed down judgment in Shagang Shipping Company Ltd (in liquidation) v HNA Group Company Ltd [2020] UKSC 34; [2020] 1 W.L.R. 3549. Against the background of a commercial charterparty dispute, this appeal raised important questions about the admissibility of evidence potentially obtained through torture.’
UKSC Blog, 8th December 2020
Source: ukscblog.com
‘This appeal arose out of a claim by the appellant under a guarantee of a contract, to charter a vessel which was met with a defence from the respondent that the contract was procured by bribery and that the guarantee was therefore unenforceable. The bribery allegation was based on evidence of confessions that the appellant alleged were obtained by torture and therefore inadmissible.’
UKSC Blog, 5th August 2020
Source: ukscblog.com
‘Individuals under investigation by law enforcement bodies have a reasonable expectation of privacy up to the point they are charged, the Court of Appeal has confirmed. Dismissing an appeal by a news agency barred from revealing the identity of a US businessman identified in documents concerning a bribery probe, the court ruled that the fact that an individual is the subject of a criminal investigation is genuinely of a different character from allegations about the conduct being investigated.’
Law Society's Gazette, 19th May 2020
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Crown Court dismissed Vlad Luca Filat’s appeal against the decision to forfeit £500,000 held in three bank accounts in his name. The court held that the money derived from bribery and corruption offences committed by the appellant’s father, the former prime minister of Moldova, and was obtained by money laundering. The case was the National Crime Agency’s first contested account forfeiture application. James Fletcher, barrister at 5SAH Chambers, who appeared for the National Crime Agency, suggests that these types of applications are likely to be deployed more and more often.’
5 SAH, 14th January 2020
Source: www.5sah.co.uk
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