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Ask Barry & Richard: Corporate hospitality – what does ordinary mean?
Question: Let me ask this question: how much worry should a company have over the term “ordinary” when it comes to hospitality? The US equivalent is “reasonable,” and hospitality concerns still effect...
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Bribery Act Guidance: Our first impressions & top takeaways
The guidance is good news for business. Our top takeaways from the guidance published today are: Proportionality is key The guidance emphasises a proportionate approach to the implementation of...
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Howard Sklar: Case Study #4: Hospitality
Howard’s back. Corporate hospitality. It’s taken up plenty of column inches in the UK newspapers. Today those newspapers are fish and chip wrappers, common sense prevails and it turns out you can...
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Ask Barry & Richard: de minimis caps on corporate hospitality – is £50 ever...
Question I recently attended your very informative if slightly disconcerting seminar on the Bribery Act and just have a quick question around de minimis caps on the value of Corporate hospitality...
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Alex goes to see his lawyers
Alex has been off to see his lawyers in his cartoon on Tuesday. He is not being investigated by the SFO, but instead he’s been invited to a Bribery Act seminar. But, for readers worried that Alex has...
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Hospitality, Wimbledon finals & bribery arrests?
The Wimbledon Semi finals are on July 1st this week the same day the Bribery Act enters into force. For those going: rest assured. We predict that there will be no arrests under the Bribery Act for...
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EXCLUSIVE: Corporate hospitality – The SFO’s five factors
In spite of numerous assurances in the Guidance published by the Ministry of Justice, from the Minister of Justice himself and from the SFO – the questions about corporate hospitality and the Bribery...
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Alex, his PA the PA ‘kickbacks’& how to spot them
A nice cartoon of Alex, our favourite City Banker, on Friday last week in the Daily Telegraph which flags up that it’s not just the bankers on the receiving end of some nice perks. We’ve written about...
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The SFO’s view on corporate hospitality
Yesterday we looked at the corporate gift. Its twin is corporate hospitality. The issue of hospitality has created headlines in the UK and has generated column inches which have even included scare...
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SFO Director David Green CB QC: on corporate hospitality
‘We are not interested in that sort of case. We are interested in hearing that a large company has mysteriously come second in bidding for a big contract. The sort of bribery we would be investigating...
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