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
Courts in the UK need to stop thinking parochially about their own coveted powers and start thinking globally about how to stamp out international corruption in which one case often affects many countries… Continue Reading
Incentives to self report are a major part of effective anti-corruption enforcement in the US and the Guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice attempts to lay the groundwork for a similar culture of self reporting in the UK. But, absent the same freedom to engage in plea bargaining that its US counterpart, the Department of Justice, enjoys, does the Serious Fraud Office have the tools to incentivise self reporting sufficiently?… Continue Reading
Although there have been many hundreds of prosecutions under the FCPA, particularly over the past 10 years or so, this was, we are told, the first such case against a company which had made it all the way to a jury trial.… Continue Reading
The further delay in the implementation of the Bribery Act by the Ministry of Justice in order to review its guidance raises the issue as to whether the time for the coming into force of this Act will ever be right.… Continue Reading
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