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Bribery definition What does Bribery mean? Bribery describes the offering, promising, giving, requesting, agreeing to receive or accepting a financial or other advantage to induce or reward the improper performance of a function or to influence a person in a position of trust. In England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, bribery is principally governed by the Bribery Act 2010, which consolidated and reformed the law. It creates offences of active and passive bribery (sections 1–2), bribery of a foreign public official (section 6), and the corporate offence of failure to prevent bribery by associated persons (section 7), with a statutory defence of having adequate procedures....
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UK life sciences: corporate crime and bribery risks, inducements and hospitality rules, ECCTA 2023 failure to prevent fraud, and enforcement
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The criminal regulatory landscape
How does criminal law intersect with the life sciences industry? The points of contact are numerous. Beyond offences against the person and controlled drugs offences, a range of corporate or ‘white collar’ crimes can affect both individuals and companies, such as counterfeiting, criminal cartel offences, money laundering, fraud and bribery. Breaches of the sector’s regulatory framework-including rules on medical devices, and on inducements and hospitality-can equally give rise to criminal liability. Criminal investigations and prosecutions may, though do not invariably, follow.
This Practice Note outlines how criminal law may operate in the life sciences arena. It addresses corporate crime liability, money laundering, fraud, anti-bribery, and inducements and hospitality in the promotion of medicinal products and medical devices, as well as enforcement. It also examines the effects of, and duties created for, life sciences businesses by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023), which comes into force from September 2025. In 2016, a report by Transparency International, the anti-corruption organisation, identified pervasive corruption within the pharmaceutical sector as a global concern that jeopardises public...
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