Bribery Act 2010 – FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE CRIMINAL OFFENCE OF FAILURE TO PREVENT BRIBERY Introduction and key facts The Scottish Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service announced on 25 September 2015 the first disposal of an offence under section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010. Section 7 was a new offence introduced under the […]

Internal documents seen by the Guardian suggest the UK catering giant’s Kazakh unit made ‘facilitation payments’ for an unspecified period up to 2011 An international subsidiary of Compass Group, the British catering giant that supplies more than 1,500 UK primary schools and 30 NHS Trusts, paid bribes to government officials in Kazakhstan, documents seen by […]

Botched bribery attempt results in Bribery Act Conviction No. 3 for son of Chinese Foreign Public Official Conviction no.1 Munir Patel was a court clerk and Ministry of Justice employee. Mr Patel was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment (later reduced to four on appeal) in November 2011 for a variety of offences including a bribery […]