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Fraud and corporate crime


International investigations: understanding the risks

It seems that every day brings a news report of corporate wrongdoing or control failures somewhere in the world – rogue traders, corruption, fraud, tax evasion, price fixing, environmental disasters and export control ... Read more

The future is bright, the future is Tangerine

For almost 40 years now, the Health and Safety at Work etc Act (HSWA) 1974 has been the bedrock of workplace health and safety law in the UK.... Read more

Dawn raids – expecting the unexpected

 What are you usually doing on a Monday morning? Imagine it is 8am next Monday and you receive a frantic call from your company’s MD telling you there are a number of people in his ... Read more

Bribery Act raises the bar for global compliance programmes

On the day that the Bribery Act 2010 (the Act) came into force, Richard Alderman, director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), gave an exclusive interview to the Daily Telegraph. In the interview, Mr Alderman ... Read more

Bribes, business and bounty hunters

The UK government has long been pilloried for its poor efforts in tackling bribery and corruption. Its response to this is the enactment of the Bribery Act 2010 (the 2010 Act), in force from 1 ... Read more

Fraud: forgotten but not gone

With the huge amount of publicity and debate surrounding bribery and corruption, in-house lawyers could be forgiven for thinking that there are no other financial and reputational risks for their companies.This year has been all ... Read more

‘Adequate procedures’ and the Bribery Act

As explained in earlier briefings, the Bribery Act 2010 (the 2010 Act) introduces the new corporate offence of failing to prevent bribery but provides for a defence if the organisation can show that it has ... Read more

Managing internal investigations: seven key considerations

By now, everyone is familiar with the stories in the press about prosecutors and regulators. On the one hand there are swingeing budgets cuts, stripping them of resources and affecting their capacity to investigate. On ... Read more

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