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Today it was reported in the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper that the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Keir Starmer, is developing an interim policy for prosecutors which will give them guidance as to the factors which they should take into consideration when deciding whether or not to prosecute journalists acting in the course of their work as journalists
As our Australian readers will no doubt be aware, the Australian Government last week outlined a proposal to ban facilitation payments, launching a consultation paper as part of its review of facilitation payments under Australian law
A few days ago I was speaking at a conference on the Bribery Act and someone asked me how the Act applies to the small payments that his charity had to make in order to get the aid which the charity is distributing across a war torn country actually delivered to the people in need
Recently the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) started a major new investigation into allegations of corruption involving one division of European Aeronautical Defence and Space (“EADS”
Following close on the heels of a similar challenge, a second U.S. District Court judge in the Central District of California has upheld the DOJ’s interpretation of the term “foreign official” as it applies to the FCPA
