Tag Archives: “David Green QC”

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends February 5, 2014

Director of the Serious Fraud Office seeks wider powers to pursue corporate crime under the Bribery Act

The Director's intention, as explained in the Daily Telegraph article, is that the Section 7 "failure to prevent bribery" offence, could easily be expanded in its breadth to include a failure to prevent all acts of financial crime.… Continue Reading

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends, Fraud, Deception and False Claims June 28, 2013

Director of the SFO and Director of Public Prosecutions publish joint draft Code of Practice for Deferred Prosecution Agreements

Notably, one reason suggested in the draft Code for the prosecution not entering into a DPA would be where a company had delayed in bringing the illegal conduct to the attention of the prosecuting authority… Continue Reading

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends, Fraud, Deception and False Claims June 21, 2013

The Director of the Serious Fraud Office Speaks Out

He supports the idea that the principle of corporate responsibility embodied in section 7 of the UK Bribery Act should be extended to cover cases where theft or fraud had been committed by a company's employees or agents… Continue Reading

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends January 23, 2013

The SFO reinforces its stance on Facilitation Payments Enforcement

This would appear to be a clear message, both to commercial organisations and to the OECD, that the SFO regards facilitation payments as being an important item on its current agenda.… Continue Reading

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends January 21, 2013

Serious Fraud Office reports an increase in companies self-reporting

The fact that there were only twelve companies self-reporting to the SFO in the year ending 31 March 2012, however, is still in our view pitifully low… Continue Reading

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Compliance, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends November 23, 2012

New FCPA Guidance – civil settlements and opinion procedures – what can the UK learn from the US?

Our proposal at the Bribery Library is that the US DOJ opinion procedure should be adopted in a similar way in the UK.… Continue Reading

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Compliance, Election and Political Law, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends October 9, 2012

New SFO guidance on self-reporting, business expenditure and facilitation payments

Self-reporting is no guarantee that a prosecution will not follow. Each case will turn on its own facts… Continue Reading

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Compliance, Election and Political Law September 17, 2012

“Not the serious champagne office” – SFO Director indicates common sense approach to Bribery Act

In response to speculation as to whether corporate hospitality involving tickets to the recent London Olympic Games might result in prosecutions under the Bribery Act, Serious Fraud Office Director David Green QC has stated: "We are not interested in that sort of case. We are interested in hearing that a large company has mysteriously come second in bidding for a big contract. The sort of bribery we would be investigating would not be tickets to Wimbledon or bottles of champagne. We are not the 'serious champagne office'."… Continue Reading

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Compliance, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends July 16, 2012

Oxford University Press pays substantial civil settlement fine for corrupt overseas contracts and is debarred from World Bank tenders

This appears to be the first civil settlement approved by the new Director of the SFO, David Green QC. It confirms what he has said publicly, that he will agree to civil settlements where appropriate (even though they have been the source of criticism in the past) but the SFO will prosecute when it is the public interest to do so.… Continue Reading

Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends July 13, 2012

Serious Fraud Office makes new appointments

The new Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), David Green QC, who took office in April this year, has this week made a series of senior appointments.… Continue Reading

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends June 26, 2012

New Director plans changes at the Serious Fraud Office

A few days ago the new Director of the Serious Fraud Office, David Green QC, used his first public speech at a corporate accountability conference in London organised by the accountancy firm PwC to set out his plans to reconfigure the UK's leading prosecution agency for serious economic crime.… Continue Reading

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends, Fraud, Deception and False Claims March 15, 2012

“Enforcing the law on fraud and corruption: does self reporting pay?”

Our view, at the BriberyLibrary, is that for many people and corporations this new policy must be regarded as a sea change in attitude. Hitherto, prosecutors have been regarded with great fear and suspicion… Continue Reading

Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Compliance, Enforcement and Prosecution Policy and Trends March 13, 2012

All Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Corruption – A “state of the art” review by the Director of the SFO of anti-corruption enforcement in the UK

Mr Alderman's speech is, overall, very encouraging in that he believes that we in Britain often underestimate the way the rest of the world views the way in which the UK is tackling corruption… Continue Reading

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