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Arms companies are facing a week of protests across the UK after a year of increasing public opposition to the arms trade. Stop the Arms Trade Week is underway and runs until 8th June, with events including an Arms Trade Walking Tour of London and a display at the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre.
My BAE AGM virginity was about to come to an end as I entered the Queen Elizabeth Conference centre, where no expense had been spared on lavish security measures to welcome proxy shareholders like myself. The BAE chairman Dick Olver’s introductory statement included a shareholder-pleasing boast about a 13.3% proposed increase in the 2007 dividend.
As everybody knows, truly great baddies never really go away but always return for an epic sequel. This time, part two will be played out in the House of Lords, as the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has decided to launch an appeal against the judgement previously won by CAAT and The Corner House. This next fight
BAE Systems has failed to halt the sharp decline in its reputation despite trying to focus on ethics at its Annual General Meeting in London today. The Board faced a barrage of questions from shareholders about corruption and political influence as they struggled to emphasise yesterday’s ethics report by Lord Woolf. The report, commissioned
The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) suggests that a new ethics report commissioned by BAE Systems will not change public perceptions of the company. The report has been published today by a committee chaired by Lord Woolf that excluded consideration of some of the most basic ethical issues, including the nature of the arms
The High Court today formally quashed the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) decision to drop its corruption investigation into arms deals between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia. This follows the Court’s ruling on 10th April that the SFO, acting on government advice, acted unlawfully in stopping its investigation in December 2006 following a threat from Saudi
“You've arrived at a good time” I was hailed whilst I scanned the lunch table licking my lips in anticipation, and I suppose I had! Hello, my name is Todd, recent addition to the CAAT team in the capacity of a rather wet behind the ears media volunteer. So it was with some trepidation and
The Corner House and Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) are not surprised to learn that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) will be asking this Thursday for leave to appeal to the House of Lords against the High Court judgment of 10 April that SFO had acted unlawfully by cutting short a corruption investigation into arms
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