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UK: employment update - April 2013

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 23 2013

This month's Employment Update considers the impending changes to the law on whistleblowing claims, the new rules on when Tribunal awards must be

Racing authorities find footballers guilty of corruption

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 1 2013

Following a lengthy investigation and prosecution by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA), three professional footballers and a jockey have been

Insulting behaviour not criminal

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 1 2012

Free speech?

2012 Paralympic Games legacy: a reduction in disability hate crimes?

  • Kingsley Napley
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 24 2012

In January 2012, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) began his Foreword to the 'Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Hate crime and crimes against older people Report 2010-2011' by saying: "All crime is unacceptable but offences that are driven by hostility or hatred based on a personal characteristic set a particular challenge for a civilised society"

Corruption in sport a case study (the trial of professional cricketers in London in November 2011)

  • Corker Binning
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 24 2012

On 29 August 2010, the front page of the News of the World (a now defunct British tabloid owned by News Corporation) carried the headline “CAUGHT! Match fixer pockets £150k as he rigs England Test at Lord’s”

"Not the serious champagne office" - SFO director indicates common sense approach to Bribery Act

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 17 2012

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. "

Journalists arrested for alleged bribes

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 21 2012

According to Scotland Yard, two journalists have been arrested by detectives investigating alleged corrupt payments to public officials

Prison officers allegedly took bribes from newspapers

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 21 2012

Two high security prison officers at separate jails have been arrested for allegedly taking thousands of pounds in bribes from the media

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

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 16 2012

According to a recent press release, the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has taken action in the High Court, which has resulted in an Order that Oxford Publishing Limited (OPL) pay £1,895,435 in recognition of sums it received which were generated through unlawful conduct related to subsidiaries incorporated in Tanzania and Kenya

Former Metropolitan Police detective arrested

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 22 2012

A former Metropolitan Police detective has been arrested by police investigating illegal payments to public officials by journalists from News International

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