A look at the key features of the legal framework applicable to the bribery of domestic public officials in United Kingdom, including the extent of liability, defences, enforcement patterns and more.
A look at some of the key features of the laws in United Kingdom prohibiting bribery of foreign public officials, covering the extent of liability, defences and enforcement patterns, among other things.
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Ten years have passed since the introduction of the UK’s primary anti-corruption law, the Bribery Act 2010 (“the Act”). This article examines the extent to which the Act has lived up to its billing as the international “gold standard”
1 for bribery legislation and looks ahead to future trends in UK economic crime enforcement.
Introduction of Bribery Act Prompted Compliance Overhaul
Section 7 of the Act, which criminalises the failure of a commercial organisation to prevent bribery, has had a significant impact on corporate culture in the UK.
Whereas corporate criminal liability is ordinarily attributed through the ‘identification principle’, where a company’s state of mind is determined by reference to the actions of its senior officers, a section 7 offence is made out if a person associated with the corporate bribes another person and the corporate cannot prove on the balance of probabilities that it