At the end of 2014, OECD released its first ever Foreign Bribery Report. The report is an analysis of the crime of bribery. We learn about who is bribing, who is receiving the bribe, what the cost of the bribe is, how bribes are being paid, where bribes are being paid, where the bribers are […]

ABSTRACT The People’s Republic of China (PRC) adopted legislation in 2011 that criminalizes bribery of foreign public officials and officials of public international organizations, and which potentially joins China with the likes of the United States, United Kingdom and other countries that invoke extraterritorial jurisdiction over various acts of bribery. Despite the PRC’s current role […]

U.K. prosecutors have announced that former News of the World editor Andy Coulson will face retrial over charges relating to alleged corruption of public officials after the jury in his previous trial failed to reach a verdict. http://goo.gl/FYLtlr

The City of London Police Overseas Anti-Corruption Unit (OACU) has launched a video highlighting the damaging consequences for UK companies and individuals of engaging in corrupt business activities. The short six-minute video entitled “Consequences begin at home” has been created as a tool that can be used by corporates to educate their employees as part […]

Overview On an application by the Representor trustee under Article 51 of the Trusts Law, the Royal Court determined that it was appropriate not to apply recent English authority following, instead, a Privy Council decision (on an appeal from New Zealand), because for “important reasons of policy” the Court needed to make a decision that […]

The FCA has fined JLT Speciality Limited (JLT) £1,876,000 (including a 30 per cent discount) for failing to have proper risk management systems and controls in place to counter the risk of bribery and corruption associated with making payments to overseas third parties. JLT, a provider of specialist insurance broking, risk management and claims consulting […]

You might think that the introduction of the Bribery Act in 2011 addressed the issues first identified by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) in its 2006 report into bribery and corruption in the construction industry. http://www.giaccentre.org/documents/CIOB.CORRUPTIONSURVEY.2006.pdf But has much changed? The 2006 report suggested bribery and corruption in the industry was common place. The […]

On 23 April 2013, Mr Yang Li, a Chinese student who had been studying at the University of Bath, pleaded guilty to bribery under section 1 of the Bribery Act 2010 (the “Act”). Mr Li had been studying for an innovation and technology management masters degree at the University of Bath.  Upon finding out his […]