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The OECD’s Anti-Bribery Working Group, an international watchdog which monitors corruption, has held that the UK authorities breached their obligations under international law when they cancelled a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into arms deals between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia. The Corner House and the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) have welcomed the
The Law Lords have this morning upheld an appeal by the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) against the High Court’s ruling that he acted unlawfully in terminating a corruption investigation into BAE Systems’ arms deals with Saudi Arabia. The appeal followed a High Court judgment in April that the SFO,
The House of Lords will this week hear the Serious Fraud Office’s appeal against the High Court’s recent decision on a BAE corruption investigation. The appeal will begin at 10.00am tomorrow (Monday 7th July) and last for two days. The High Court ruled on 10th April that the Serious Fraud Office, acting on government advice,
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.
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
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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