— A little more than thirteen months ago, the UK Bribery Act (the ‘Act’) came into force in the United Kingdom. The Act equips the UK courts with some of the most robust anti-bribery legislation in the world. It consolidated and brought up to date the old antiquated legislation and formalised the general offences of giving bribes or receiving bribes, introduced an offence of bribing foreign public officials, and an offence relating to commercial organisations which fail to prevent bribery committed on their behalf.
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