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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

Gambling law & regulation

  • Addisons
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  • Australia
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  • March 4 2013

Even though it is early in 2013, gambling has not been far from the headlines in the Australian press. The integrity of Australian sport has been

Racing authorities find footballers guilty of corruption

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

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

Arrest of Ceglia who sued for 84 ownership of Facebook

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 31 2012

The FBI arrested Paul Geglia for alleged criminal violations regarding fabricating evidence that Mark Zuckerberg and he signed a contract in 2004 for web design for Facebook

Insulting behaviour not criminal

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 1 2012

Free speech?

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

  • Kingsley Napley
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  • United Kingdom
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  • 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
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  • United Kingdom
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  • 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. "

Die Hard with a vengeance indeed

  • Day Pitney LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 4 2012

The Ninth Circuit rejected the bid of famed Die Hard movie director John McTiernan to reverse the district court's refusal to suppress evidence

Corruption digest

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • Malaysia
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  • August 21 2012

The former president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Mr Mohammed bin Hammam, has been suspended for 30 days after a year-long internal audit of AFC accounts revealed "infringements" regarding the "execution of certain contracts" and interference with AFC bank accounts