Blackstone's Guide to the Bribery Act 2010

This new Blackstone's Guide provides an essential guide to the Bribery Act 2010, which reforms the law of corruption, modernizing the existing law and creating new offences and investigative powers targeted at both individuals and businesses. It enables increased prosecution of businesses operating overseas, whether through subsidiaries, joint ventures, or direct market access, and simplifies and clarifies existing laws, making UK law compliant with international instruments.

The Act introduces a controversial new corporate offence, enabling prosecution of companies associated with the individual or business accused of corruption. It also introduces the defence of adequate provisions for companies accused of the corporate offence.

Combining the full text of the Act and extracts of related relevant legislation with an expert narrative, the Blackstone's Guide brings practitioners up-to-date with this long-awaited piece of legislation.

Monty Raphael is Special Counsel at Peters and peters, a leading white collar law firm. Until 2005 he was Senior Partner and then Head of the Fraud and Regulatory team. He has made a particular speciality of corruption, civil and criminal fraud, and antimoney laundering law, both domestic and international.