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2011 sees Campaign Against Arms Trade’s (CAAT) new campaign This is not OK. The simple slogan highlights the unethical basis of the Government’s enthusiastic support for the arms industry and arms exports. This is not OK is launched on 17 January, the 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower’s farewell address, where he warned

Campaign Against Arms Trade and The Corner House are challenging the blanket immunity from prosecution given by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to BAE Systems as part of its February 2010 plea bargain settlement with the company. The immunity clause states that: There shall be no further investigations or prosecutions

A giant Dick Olver, chairman of BAE, paying peanuts BAE managed to escape with a fine of £500,000 plus costs in court today. Its plea bargain (worth £30 million) to end years of corruption investigations was structured so poorly that if the court fined more, this would be

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Corner House today welcomed the damning remarks of Mr Justice Bean accompanying the sentencing in the crown court of BAE Systems plc. The judge expressed surprise that although the accounting mistake to which the company pleaded guilty was the result of a deliberate decision by

We braved the snow to demonstrate outside BAE's court hearing Will a giant Dick Olver get away with paying peanuts? Sub-zero temperatures didn't deter us from voicing our anger outside court today. Arms company BAE was inside and set to get away with paying utter peanuts: buying an

The plea bargain agreed between arms giant BAE Systems and the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to end the six-year bribery investigation was not, as expected, signed off this morning at Southwark Crown Court in south London by Mr Justice Bean. Instead the judge forensically questioned barristers representing BAE and the SFO

Arms giant BAE will be in the dock at Southwark Crown Court on Monday morning, 20 December. Supporters from Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) will hold a colourful pageant outside the courthouse to illustrate the nature and extent of BAE’s wrongdoing. The court hearing is expected to sign off the settlement agreed

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) condemns the reported remarks of Prince Andrew slamming the Serious Fraud Office investigation of arms giant BAE Systems. The comments, part of the WikilLeaks cache released on 29 November, were reported in a cable by the US Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan following a ” business brunch” two years ago.