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The High Court has today ordered BAE Systems to produce a sworn affidavit divulging how they obtained a confidential and legally privileged document belonging to Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). The document in question contained advice from CAAT’s solicitors on a planned judicial review of the decision to drop a corruption probe into BAE’s
As BAE Systems announced record profits today, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) pointed out that they were possible only because of Government subsidies for the arms trade. BAE announced an annual profit of over £1 billion in the last year, fuelled in part by increased sales of weapons to the USA to fight the
We’re a group of activists, who are passionate about campaigning against the arms trade. We’re fed up with the extent to which arms trade and arms companies are enshrined in our everyday lives: Our local authorities invest in arms companies, our government finances an agency (DESO) which helps arms companies push for deals
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) today said that Reed Elsevier had run out of excuses after F&C Asset Management and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust sold their shares in protest at the company’s role in organising arms fairs. Despite growing criticism, Reed insisted that it would press ahead with the IDEX fair next week,
On Friday 19th January 2007 Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and Corner House Research received the Government’s formal response to their proposed judicial review challenge. The letter sent by the Government’s solicitors seeks to defend the decision. There is nothing in that letter which has dissuaded CAAT and Corner House from their view that
The Corner House and Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) have today received the Government’s response to letters sent to the Serious Fraud Office, Attorney-General and Prime Minister on 18th December 2006. The Government contests their assertions that the SFO’s decision to drop the BAE-Saudi Arabia investigation was unlawful. The Corner House and
Last night The Corner House and Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) began a legal challenge to the decision to drop the investigation into bribery allegations involving BAE Systems Plc in Saudi Arabia. Lawyers, Leigh Day & Co, acting on behalf of the two organisations, issued letters to the Director of the Serious Fraud Office, the
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Corner House have instructed solicitors Leigh Day & Co to consider a legal action against the Attorney General. This is with respect to the decision to end the Serious Fraud Office investigation into allegations of corruption around the sale of military equipment by BAE Systems to Saudi
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