Sentences with phrase «leniency programs»

Thinking on the administration of government leniency programs and «ex officio» investigations aimed at ferreting out cartels continues to be refined.

In its efforts to get tougher on white - collar crime, the federal government may have made it tougher for the Competition Bureau to get individuals and corporations to work with its established leniency programs.

The prospect of class actions is an unpleasant reality for companies considering whether or not to «go in» to the Bureau under its immunity or leniency programs, given that neither program provides any safe harbour from potential civil suits.

Our lawyers have convinced government authorities to suspend their investigations against our clients, gained non-prosecution status for targets of government investigations, and obtained amnesty for clients under U.S. and foreign antitrust leniency programs.

It later realized that it had inadvertently disclosed some documents containing information the Bureau had obtained as part of the proffers from Cadbury and Hershey under the Immunity and Leniency Programs.

Information received by the Competition Bureau at the proffer stage of its Immunity and Leniency Programs is not protected from disclosure to other accused persons by settlement privilege, the Ontario... [more] Full article

Justice Nordheimer first narrowed the information at issue to information provided by the interveners through the «proffer process» of the Immunity and Leniency Programs.

By contrast, chapter 13 mentions the advantages of including investigatory and prosecution functions within the same authority, such as a consistent strategic vision, expertise and more effective leniency programs.

Hershey disclosed its privileged information to the Bureau when it chose to participate in the Leniency Program.

The OFT operates a leniency program, which applies to agreements between undertakings.

The Bureau's new compliance materials, which include information on most major competition law areas, misleading advertising, associations and the Bureau's Leniency Program, are essential reading for corporate compliance officers, senior management and in - house and general counsel.

The Americans invented the immunity programs when the U.S. Department of Justice («DOJ») Corporate Leniency Program was introduced in 1978, but it was not until it was reformed in 1993 that a significant number of immunity applications were received.

It will also be interesting to see whether the Bureau pursues any directors, officers or employees given its stated commitment over the past several years to more aggressively seek penalties against individuals and whether any other products will be added to the investigation (for example, as a result of other parties seeking «immunity plus» under the Bureau's Leniency Program).

Not exact matches

«We have an informant rewards program to try and encourage calls to the hotline and recently ran a social media stop cartels campaign to promote both the hotline and our leniency policy,» added Blake.

For some observers of the field, the relative leniency of states in reviewing their teacher - preparation programs is symptomatic of a general lack of agreement on what candidates should learn, and how they should learn it.

The Court's very formalistic way of dealing with this, where it qualifies leniency as a program developed by the Commission without binding effects on the Member States, certainly does not do justice to the uneasy relationship between a very effective detection tool and follow - on damages claims.

In exchange for immunity or leniency, these programs require parties to cooperate fully with the Bureau's investigation.

There is not significant case law in this area and, in one ruling earlier in the year, Ontario Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer found that settlement privilege did not apply at the proffer stage of the «immunity» or «leniency» program offered by the Competition Bureau.

This lending leniency, he says, has actually worked to lower the overall delinquency rate for its multifamily loans to 0.15 %, compared with a level of around 2 % when the program originally started in the late 1980s, says Davis.

Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Agriculture mortgage programs back construction loans and can allow some credit leniency, along with low — or no — down payments.