“Former world number five Stephen Lee’s match-fixing tribunal has concluded in Bristol, with Adam Lewis QC reserving judgement in the case to a later date.”
BBC News, 11th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The head of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has responded to critics of the UK’s new anti-corruption legislation, confirming that the department has eight cases under investigation.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th September 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“A policewoman with the Hampshire force who disclosed intelligence to criminals has been jailed for three years.”
BBC News, 2nd August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The former Conservative party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas has won £180,000 damages in his high court libel action over a Sunday Times allegation about charging £250,000 to meet David Cameron.”
The Guardian, 31st July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina v Sale [2013] EWCA Crim 1306; [2013] WLR (D) 304
“Where the defendant was the sole shareholder of a company for which he had secured commercial contracts by corruption, the assessment of the defendant’s criminal benefit for the purposes of a confiscation order could not be based on the turnover from the contracts because that would be disproportionate but should be restricted to the gross profit earned by the company together with any other pecuniary advantage which flowed from the corruption.”
WLR Daily, 25th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Appeal Panel of the Cricket Discipline Commissions of the ECB has published its decision upholding the lifetime ban on former Pakistan international spin bowler, Danish Kaneria, from any involvement in the playing, organisation or administration of cricket under the jurisdiction of the ECB. The Pakistan Cricket Board has acknowledged the decision, and so the impact of the suspension is that Kaneria will remain banned for life from involvement in professional cricket.”
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 19th July 2013
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
“Doubts have emerged about the conviction of a contract killer following a trial in which special court orders were used to keep sensitive information out of the public domain.”
The Guardian, 21st July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An arrested person who resisted extradition on the basis that there was systemic corruption in the judicial system in the requesting country did not necessarily have to point to particular facts or circumstances affecting his case since such corruption affected everyone who was subjected to it and it was impossible to say that any individual who was returned to such a system would receive the right to a fair trial within article 6 of the Convention.”
WLR Daily, 10th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Prosecutors and police were overwhelmed by more than 1 million pages of evidence during the trial of eight former South Wales police officers that eventually collapsed, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former police authority boss who persuaded a friend to accept his
speeding points to protect his career has been jailed for eight months.”
BBC News, 12th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Speech to the C5 7th Advanced Forum on Anti Corruption on the role of prosecutors and the court.”
Attorney-Geberal’s Office, 28th June 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
“A model is suing the Sun and Scotland Yard in the first civil claim linked to alleged corrupt payments to police officers and public officials.”
The Guardian, 27th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The home secretary has ordered a review by a former senior judge into the role police corruption had in shielding the murderers of a private detective found with an axe embedded in his head.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“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
Source: www.out-law.com
“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.”
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11 KBW, 19th February 2013
Source: www.11kbw.com
“A former Moscow police officer is suing a British businessman who exposed how a network of corrupt officials and shadowy criminal underworld figures were behind the largest tax fraud in Russian history. Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Karpov has launched libel and defamation proceedings in the High Court against William Browder, a millionaire hedge-fund magnate who has campaigned against corruption within the Russian government after his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was tortured and died in police custody.”
The Independent, 24th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A senior Scotland Yard counter-terrorism officer has been convicted of misconduct after she offered to sell information about the phone-hacking investigation to the News of the World.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Police officers have been warned that the ‘very legitimacy’ of the service risks being undermined unless more is done to take issues of integrity more seriously, a watchdog says.”
The Guardian, 19th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Alison Levitt, QC, Principal Legal Advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions, oversees CPS decision making and all potential prosecutions in relation to the ongoing phone hacking investigations and other related matters.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 20th November 2012
Source: www.blog.cps.gov.uk
“Prosecutors will announce on Tuesday if they believe they have enough evidence to bring criminal charges following a police investigation into alleged illegal payments by journalists to public officials.”
The Guardian, 19th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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