Sentences with phrase «foreign public officials by»

The bribery of foreign public officials by individuals and entities was criminalised in 2011 through an amendment to the Criminal Law.

The new proposed bribery laws have been drafted to broaden the offence of bribery of a foreign public official by creating a new strict liability offence for failing to prevent foreign bribery.

Not exact matches

Far - reaching and critical amendments proposed by Bill S - 14, An Act to amend the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, received royal assent on June 19, 2013.

Therefore a scheme developed by two or more persons to bribe a foreign public official that is later not followed through can still result in the violation of the CFPOA.

Viewing these companies as allies rather than merely as customers from whom to make as large a profit as quickly as possible, German bank officials sat on their boards, and helped expand their business by extending loans to foreign governments on condition that their clients be named the chief suppliers in major public investments.

We also help businesses comply with the Competition Act, the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, and other laws, by providing practical advice.

Invited by the Government of Canada to speak at a conference in Mumbai and New Delhi with respect to Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

[22] «Report on the Application of the Convention on Combating of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and the 1997 Recommendations on Combating Bribery in International Business Transactions», approved and adopted by the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions on 16 October 2008.

Comparable Canadian legislation is the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act S.C. 1998, c. 34, which has not been as vigorously enforced as it might be, although there are signs this may be changing: see «Importance of Anti-Corruption Due Diligence for International Transactions» by Morrison, Dixon, Sosnow & Neave; and the more recent «Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act shows its teeth» by Paul Beaudry.

The landmark Bribery Act introduced clarity to corruption laws that had been in place for over 100 years and established far wider - ranging powers for criminalising the abuse of power in foreign jurisdictions by both corporate institutions and public officials.

Examples of such cases are Chandler v Cape Plc [2011] EWHC 951 (QB)(liability of non-employer for exposure to asbestos), Kynixa Ltd v Hynes and others [2008] EWHC 1495 (QB)(claims arising from alleged breaches of restrictive covenants in employment contracts), Romantiek BVBA v Simms [2008] EWHC 3099 (QB) a claim alleging that a public official had committed the tort of misfeasance in public office when discharging a licensing function, OOO and others v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [20011] EWHC 1246 (QB)(claims by young foreign females that they had been trafficked into the UK by foreign nationals for the purpose of slavery and that officers of the Metropolitan Police Force breached their human rights in failing to investigate their complaints adequately or at all) and Mouncher and others v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2016] EWHC 1367 (QB)(claims by retired and serving police officers for false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecution against South Wales Police arising from an investigation by officers of that force into alleged criminal conduct on the part of the claimants during the course of an investigation into a notorious murder in South Wales.

(i) A public health authority that is authorized by law to collect or receive such information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including, but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth or death, and the conduct of public health surveillance, public health investigations, and public health interventions; or, at the direction of a public health authority, to an official of a foreign government agency that is acting in collaboration with a public health authority;