Time To Rethink The SFO's Corruption Policy.
Mondaq Business Briefing › Nbr. 2010, January 2010
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Time To Rethink The SFO's Corruption Policy.
The importance of Thomas LJ's sentencing remarks delivered in the Innospec case on 18 March in relation to the SFO in particular and corporate criminality in general cannot be underestimated. It is a watershed judgment, raising issues of "constitutional principle" and the rule of law. It has significant implications for the SFO's policy on corporate foreign corruption and has sent a clear signal that the criminal courts cannot be bypassed and their sentencing powers ignored. The SFO needs to take immediate note to ensure that it does not become the captive of the very persons it was set up to investigate...
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