Subsidised anti-bribery help from the UK Government for SME’s. Eyes wide open: strings attached!  - Tuesday, August 13, 2019 7:39 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				SFO Raid numbers don’t tell complete story as new Director lays foundations for years ahead  - Wednesday, May 8, 2019 1:59 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Our top 5: Predictions for 2019  - Saturday, January 5, 2019 0:27 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Serious Fraud Office raids triple  - Thursday, July 26, 2018 1:31 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Opinion: New Serious Fraud Office Director Appointment reflects Americanisation of UK Corporate Crime Enforcement and represents opportunity for further harmonisation  - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 2:10 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Killing a corpse and a shot in the foot: Skansen Interiors  - Wednesday, May 9, 2018 11:39 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Opinion: The old rules still apply & always did.  High Court rules litigation privilege applies in internal investigation post ENRC  - Sunday, February 4, 2018 11:16 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BE QUICK:  16 November: Tickets going fast…Roll up, Roll up – hear David Green QC’s Swan Song and Hui Chen in London at our annual reg conference  - Monday, October 23, 2017 8:08 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Opinion: Bertling convictions another notch on the SFO bedpost. Sentencing will provide a sibling to guilty plea disposal.  - Tuesday, October 3, 2017 2:20 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Opinion: Conservatives must answer two basic questions about the plan to merge the SFO into the NCA  - Tuesday, May 23, 2017 4:41 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Announcement of SFO merger into the NCA must be followed with detailed plans and assurances now  - Thursday, May 18, 2017 14:04 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				At her Majesty’s pleasure.  A right royal bribery scheme ends in convictions and prison “for quite a long time…”.  - Tuesday, August 16, 2016 2:19 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				EXCLUSIVE: U turn on DPA’s. SFO Director points to concerns over lack of incentives for DPA’s while Sir Brian Leveson says DPA companies entitled to bigger discounts.  - Monday, June 27, 2016 9:06 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREXIT. No change to present enforcement but proposals for new laws could be in tatters  - Saturday, June 25, 2016 3:06 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: Biggest corporate criminal law shake up announced as part of UK Anti Corruption Summit  - Thursday, May 12, 2016 10:00 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				All that glitters is not gold. Sweett & Smith & Ouzman sentences throw into sharp relief benefit of DPA deals  - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:38 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				The Mackay Award – Scholarship to study digital communications in overseas election campaigns  - Monday, February 29, 2016 6:40 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: SFO Director contract extension marks vote of confidence in agency turnaround  - Tuesday, February 9, 2016 5:16 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Picking over the bones of the Chickengate sentencing: The analysis  - Monday, January 11, 2016 9:48 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: Chickens Come Home to Roost – Smith & Ouzman Ltd sentence and confiscation judgment handed down  - Sunday, January 10, 2016 7:49 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Standard Bank failure to prevent bribery. The Aston Martin Bribery Act case.  Or a hot rod?  - Sunday, December 6, 2015 11:42 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: FIRST FAILURE TO PREVENT BRIBERY DISPOSAL AGAINST A CORPORATE IN FIRST DPA  - Monday, November 30, 2015 7:48 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				OPINION: First DPA a watershed moment in the history of UK corporate crime enforcement & significant moment for SFO  - Sunday, November 29, 2015 3:21 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Only 50 days until Christmas – Make all your wishes come true: SFO update…How to get a DPA  - Wednesday, November 4, 2015 6:28 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				SFO Director means what he says…A letter from David Green CB QC: No “Get out of jail card for companies”  - Tuesday, August 4, 2015 6:57 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Opinion: As UK DPA Mania & rumour mill sets in. Pundits fundamentally misunderstand the SFO & UK regime  - Sunday, July 26, 2015 11:55 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				FAIL: After 5 years – majority of SME’s don’t have sufficient knowledge about bribery finds Government Report  - Sunday, July 5, 2015 6:43 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				First DPA invitation letters issued by SFO. The race is on for the first DPA.  - Monday, May 25, 2015 0:01 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				Guilty. With a little help from it’s friends…SFO gets by with a little help from its friends.  - Tuesday, May 12, 2015 1:12 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				The Battle of David and Goliath – Standard Economics vs. Behavioural Economics  - Monday, May 4, 2015 11:24 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				A compliance dilemma as Easter approaches…Killing the goose that laid the golden egg? Jeremy Clarkson dropped by BBC.  - Thursday, March 26, 2015 4:44 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				OPINION: It was so easy to avoid: Chickengate: Smith & Ouzman Sentencing Remarks in full under new sentencing guidelines  - Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:34 - 2 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: Chickens come home to roost: Sentences handed down to Smith & Ouzman directors in ‘Chickengate’  - Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:33 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Opinion: Less time than Bernie got.  But a long time is on the cards for UK white collar offenders.  - Sunday, February 1, 2015 8:41 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: SFO Christmas present – Smith & Ouzman & two former Directors convicted of bribes using ‘Chicken’  - Tuesday, December 23, 2014 3:12 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Bribery an aggravator as Directors sentenced to a total of 28 years in prison  - Monday, December 8, 2014 14:11 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Didn’t get a contract because of a bribe & want to sue. We tell you how.  - Sunday, November 16, 2014 4:25 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Pinsent Masons Regulatory Conference – David Green confirms Anti-Bribery central plank underpinning Independent SFO  - Sunday, October 26, 2014 23:09 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Failure to prevent economic crime: seismic shift in criminal law – may happen with stroke of a pen  - Wednesday, September 10, 2014 23:18 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Pinsent Masons Regulatory Conference. October 23. International risk.  - Sunday, September 7, 2014 1:32 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: David Green Reports SFO Progress at Cambridge Symposium  - Wednesday, September 3, 2014 0:32 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				OPINION: SFO Whistleblowing data flags need for debate on incentivised whistleblowing & better use of money laundering disclosures  - Sunday, August 31, 2014 12:24 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				Lawyer offers bribe payers cash back guarantee (some strings attached!)  - Tuesday, August 26, 2014 5:54 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				REVIEW: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in a new era by Mike Koehler – BUY IT  - Friday, August 22, 2014 3:44 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				REVIEW: Holiday Reading: Bribery A Compliance Handbook  - Tuesday, August 19, 2014 22:18 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				Supersize me: Innospec 4 sentencing remarks do much more than they say on the tin.  - Monday, August 11, 2014 23:25 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Holiday Reading: Book Review – How to pay a bribe 2014 Edited By Alexandra Wrage & Severin Wirz  - Monday, August 11, 2014 6:52 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: 1st UK Anti-corruption plan imminent & corporate crime laws under review  - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 6:09 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: Good news for the SFO in Innospec – Jury Convicts former CEO and Sales Director  - Thursday, June 19, 2014 0:23 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				More joined up approach required: Only .5% chance a corruption suspicious activity report will be acted upon  - Monday, June 2, 2014 5:30 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Hello! Innospec woes as bribery losers sue for damages  - Thursday, May 29, 2014 10:14 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				SFO School Report. B-. Could do better.  - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 4:32 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				NEWSFLASH: Common sense prevails again! Prosecutors give credit for compliance programs in Norway too.  - Wednesday, March 19, 2014 13:53 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				“I cannot help you on ethics” says David Green. We don’t believe him.  - Sunday, March 9, 2014 4:47 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Good news: SFO goes cap in hand again for money.  - Sunday, March 2, 2014 8:09 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: SFO opens criminal investigation into Rolls Royce. Opinion: The stakes are high.  - Monday, December 23, 2013 7:23 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Key question for SFO after Dahdaleh collapse  - Sunday, December 15, 2013 23:17 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: DPA’s in the Spring & a Dicky Bird tells us Bribery Act prosecutions ‘soon’…  - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 15:50 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Try harder. Politicians tell draftsmen to come up with tougher penalties for corporate crime.  - Tuesday, November 12, 2013 14:37 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Get the cash. Get the cash. Get the cash. Blockbuster funding & the wrinkle which means it’s not the complete answer.  - Monday, November 4, 2013 1:54 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Corporate prosecutions under the Bribery Act. Racing certainty or outsider? Watch this space.  - Sunday, October 27, 2013 5:57 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Corporate charged with corruption in UK  - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 14:10 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: In the small print: Huge shake up in UK bribery enforcement, US style whistleblowing & UK False Claims Act  - Monday, October 7, 2013 14:45 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Scotland aims to stamp out public corruption with new unit  - Thursday, September 26, 2013 3:24 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: Serious Fraud Office lays its first Bribery Act charges.  - Thursday, August 15, 2013 0:20 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				UK climb down? Minister of Justice rules out watering down Bribery Act  - Wednesday, July 17, 2013 0:10 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Miss the Rolling Stones? Hear our recorded webinar instead with Vivian Robinson QC & Julian Glass: The Bribery Act 2 years on.  What was all the fuss about.  - Monday, July 8, 2013 23:41 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BSI and City of London Police announce joint initiative to tackle anti-bribery compliance apathy  - Monday, July 8, 2013 0:32 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Big fines on the way? Proposed UK Corporate penalties take a leaf out of the US sentencing guidelines.  - Wednesday, June 26, 2013 23:55 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Another step towards US style enforcement. Respondent Superior on the cards for the UK?  - Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:57 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Possible Bribery Act review: Now is not the time to bring back Arthur Daley  - Thursday, May 30, 2013 15:11 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				DPA law gets Royal Assent. Deferred Prosecution Agreements on track for 2014  - Saturday, April 27, 2013 3:27 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				This week see us speaking at the G20 Third Annual High-Level Anti-Corruption Conference for Governments and Business  - Sunday, April 21, 2013 7:28 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				The Met, City of London Police & SOCA spearheading additional £8 million crackdown on overseas corruption  - Sunday, March 24, 2013 10:40 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Parliament report calls for Bribery Act review: Our opinion – Junk in. Junk Out.  - Thursday, March 14, 2013 15:27 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				One for the half of UK PLC who are reckless gamblers: A stitch in time saves nine!  - Sunday, March 10, 2013 11:10 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				Time(table) for Deferred Prosecution Agreements  - Wednesday, March 6, 2013 1:19 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				New revised Code for Crown Prosecutors, By Anne-Marie Ottaway  - Sunday, February 10, 2013 7:21 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Knock knock. Who’s there? The Police. Join us for our Dawn Raid seminars nationwide UK  - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:29 - 4 Comments
				
												 
				The devil in the detail & the dangers of not self reporting  - Monday, December 10, 2012 23:25 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Isle of Man introduces Bribery Bill to follow suit with the UK  - Tuesday, December 4, 2012 15:05 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				It’s all about the money: SFO Director on why the SFO will NEVER turn down investigation because SFO doesn’t have enough money  - Thursday, November 29, 2012 0:01 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				David Green lays out the core purpose of the SFO to House of Commons Justice Committee  - Wednesday, November 28, 2012 1:29 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Report identifies 8 things the SFO should do better – offers (some) praise too  - Monday, November 26, 2012 1:40 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				A Brits eye perspective on the Remarks by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer at the American Conference Institute’s 28th National Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act  - Friday, November 16, 2012 9:36 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				Gambling is a risky business: David Green QC – SFO should “never” refuse to investigate for lack of funds  - Wednesday, November 14, 2012 7:23 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				We are joined by a former SFO prosecutor & a new agony aunt & etiquette expert Di Lemma.  - Tuesday, November 6, 2012 17:28 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING:86% say they want Deferred Prosecution Agreements. And they are going to get them.  - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 3:27 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: Deferred Prosecution Agreements could be a reality as early as next year  - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 0:11 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				It’s all about the money. A picture of a new SFO funding model begins to emerge as new Director sharpens the knives…  - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 5:49 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				Self Reporting to the SFO: Still on the menu – but advice will be critical  - Monday, October 15, 2012 15:05 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				MADNESS: 1/4 of Board Directors surveyed say they’d bribe to win business.  - Wednesday, October 10, 2012 14:16 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				BREAKING: Harsher, tougher, blunter: SFO publishes position on corporate hospitality, facilitation payments & self reporting  - Tuesday, October 9, 2012 3:55 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				OPINION: Confusion must not fill the vacuum following removal of SFO guidance  - Monday, October 1, 2012 13:27 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				SFO guidance on corporate hospitality and facilitation payments about to change? May be.  - Sunday, September 23, 2012 15:34 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				30th International Symposium on Economic Crime: University of Cambridge: SFO Director speech  - Wednesday, September 5, 2012 13:23 - 1 Comment
				
												 
				30th International Symposium on Economic Crime: University of Cambridge: Attorney General speech  - Tuesday, September 4, 2012 11:41 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Time to check the D&O cover. Moral hazard for prosecutors may create a two tier criminal defence system.  - Monday, August 20, 2012 15:03 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				A new sheriff is coming to town & LIBOR Fixing Report criticism of the FSA could be a game changer for UK enforcement.  - Sunday, August 19, 2012 13:00 - 0 Comments
				
												 
				Book review: How to pay a bribe – thinking like a criminal to thwart bribery schemes  - Thursday, August 9, 2012 6:54 - 1 Comment
				
						 
			
			 
		 
		
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