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At Last, The Bribery Act 2010 Adequate Procedures Guidance is Here

The waiting is over! At last the UK Ministry of Justice has published guidance about procedures which commercial organisations can put into place to prevent persons associated with them from bribing. The Act will now come into force on 1 July 2011. The guidance offers non-prescriptive procedures and commentary on the scope of the Act. … Continue Reading

UK Bribery Act – Guidance on Adequate Procedures to be published tomorrow and Act to be implemented in June/July 2011

This post was also written by Suzie A. Savage. It is understood that the UK Ministry of Justice will publish its guidance on adequate procedures tomorrow, Wednesday 30th March 2011. The Act was originally scheduled to be implemented in April of this year, three months after guidance was to be published in January about the … Continue Reading

UK Bribery Act – timing is still unclear

This post was also written by Neil Donovan. The UK Ministry of Justice (“MoJ”) official with responsibility for managing the implementation of the Bribery Act 2010 (“Act”) provided an update on the status and content of the revised adequate procedures guidance during a speech last Thursday. The speech covered the following: Timeframe- according to the … Continue Reading

UK Bribery Act – still more delays

The implementation of the UK Bribery Act has been delayed, the UK Ministry of Justice has confirmed today. The Act was due to be implemented in April 2011, three months after guidance was to be published about the “adequate procedures” firms should have in place to prevent bribery. It was originally thought that the guidance … Continue Reading

UK Government consults on Bribery Act: “adequate procedures” guidance – but not for long

This post was written by Simon Hart. Eight weeks and counting. That is the period that the UK’s Ministry of Justice has given for responses to their consultation paper on the guidance which will be published by the Government as to what might constitute “adequate procedures” for companies who might find themselves relying on the … Continue Reading

UK Bribery Act: delays in implementation

This post was also written by Kirsty O’Connor. Quelle surprise! The Ministry of Justice has recently announced that the UK Bribery Act will not come into force until April 2011 (six months later than previously suggested). The legislation that was rushed through before the recent general election needs some fine tuning, or at least a … Continue Reading
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