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All the latest from Campaign Against Arms Trade, across the country and near you, including press releases, the CAAT Blog, articles from the CAAT News magazine, and info on local actions. Browse the full list, or filter by type or topic.

Press releases

BAE to be called to account through legal challenge

Lawyers acting on behalf of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Corner House have today issued a letter to the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) laying out their intention to request a judicial review of the 5 February 2010 decision of the SFO to enter a plea agreement with BAE.

Press releases

BAE guilty but escapes court

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Corner House are shocked and angered by the decision of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to settle with BAE Systems. As a result of the settlement there will be no opportunity to discover the truth behind alleged bribery and corruption in the many BAE deals that were

Press releases

Campaigners welcome arrest of Austrian arms lobbyist

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) welcomes the news that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly with making illegal payments to officials in central and eastern Europe in connection with proposed BAE arms sales. The Count, who owns property in the UK, was charged at Highbury Magistrates Court on

Blogs

BAE boss lectures on ethics – a bad joke?

Cordula Bieri describes how a CAAT protest took on a comic theme to highlight the absurdity of an arms company boss speaking on ethics. On a cold and wet Thursday evening, 12 November 2009, supporters of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) gathered outside Savoy Place in central London to have a good laugh. What happened? The Institution

Press releases

BAE Chairman dismisses Nimrod Review conclusions

Anti-arms trade campaigners have reacted with incredulity after the Chairman of BAE Systems appeared to dismiss the conclusions of the Nimrod Review. Mr Dick Olver was answering questions in a public meeting after delivering the Mountbatten Memorial Lecture at the Institute for Engineering and Technology (IET) on the evening of 12 November.

Press releases

Dick’s next trick – selling deadly arms and lecturing on ethics

Anti-arms trade campaigners have reacted with anger and disbelief that the Chairman of Britain’s biggest arms manufacturer is to deliver a lecture on ethics in business. Mr Dick Olver, chairman of BAE Systems, is scheduled to give the public the benefit of his wisdom at the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) on 12

Blogs

Green markets or gun markets

David Watson writes on weapons, wars and climate change for Blog Action Day on Climate Change - 15 October 2009. On 14 October, BBC's Newsnight asked the question "Can you be green and capitalist?" Simon Retallack, associate director at the centre-left think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, was asked how best to fight

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