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New system for criminal record checks

  • Ashton KCJ
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 10 2013

On 1 December 2012 a new body, The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) was created out of a merger of the CRB and the Independent Safeguarding

SOX and whistleblowers - any fraud will do

  • Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC
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  • USA
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  • June 13 2013

Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("SOX") prohibits publicly-traded companies from retaliating against employees who report various acts of

3rd Circuit ruling creates circuit split over SOX whistleblower standard

  • Jenner & Block
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  • USA
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  • June 5 2013

The Third Circuit denied Tyco Electronics Corporation's petition for en banc review of its ruling that revived a former accountant's whistleblower

Crime, corruption & other misdeeds

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 31 2013

Production Workers Union Local 148's president, Stephen P. Arena, was sentenced to six months in prison, two years of supervised release, a $5,000

Tenth Circuit ruling may broaden reach of SOX anti-retaliation whistleblower provisions

  • Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 10 2013

The Administrative Review Board of the Department of Labor concluded that Lockheed Martin had violated Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after an

Spain adopts legal measures to combat fraud

  • Jones Day
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  • Spain
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  • June 5 2013

The Spanish Parliament has recently passed a series of laws to combat fraud in various areas, including tax, employment and Social Security. These

What you don't know can harm you

  • ENS - Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs
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  • South Africa
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  • June 12 2013

Research has shown in excess of 80 of serious frauds committed against an organisation are perpetrated by an employee, either alone or in collusion

The criminal employee: a conviction in the Queen of the North ferry disaster

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 21 2013

Canadian employers and employees are subject to unique and far-reaching Criminal Code provisions regarding negligence causing bodily injury or death

Retaliation claims under Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank

  • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
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  • USA
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  • December 21 2011

Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 protects employees of public companies who 'blow the whistle' by reporting conduct that they reasonably believe constitutes a violation of federal law relating to financial, securities or shareholder fraud

No sale -- sales commissions violate anti-kickback statute; prevent enforcement of nonsolicitation

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 7 2013

A durable medical equipment (DME) distributor, Joint Technology, Inc., entered into an agreement to pay a salesman commissions ranging from 18 to 22