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Contract: Return to sender
Anthony Woolich, Simon Burden and Jaime van der Eb consider the implications of the Bribery Act and the Proceeds of Crime Act for the ‘innocent’ company ‘A contract that has been entered into because of the payment of a bribe is not automatically void.’The Bribery Act 2010 came into force on 1 July 2011. Readers …
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