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November 18, 2022
1. Is your country a member of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention? Yes. 2. Is your country a member of any other bilateral or multilateral conventions on anti-corruption? Yes. France is...
September 13, 2022
At a hearing on 6 September 2022, lawyers acting for MG Freesites Ltd. (operators of the Pornhub website), raised a constitutional challenge against a recent law that permits France’s...
June 30, 2022
Human rights organisation Amnesty International has urged France to amend its law on crimes against humanity committed abroad. This would make it possible for people suspected of war crimes in Ukraine…
June 21, 2022
On 9 June the Court of Appeal of Perugia, Italy, acquitted Italian law enforcement officers in the case of the deportation in 2013 of Alma Shalabayeva, the wife of Kazakh oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, who is wanted by several countries for murder and illegal withdrawal of large financial funds ($6 billion), writes Gary Cartwright. According to […]
March 2, 2021
In a fully reasoned ruling dated November 25, 2020, the Criminal Chamber of the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) has reversed a case law that had been established for more than twenty years in "merger by acquisition" transactions (i.e., when a company is merged into another): The acquiring company may now, under certain conditions, be held criminally liable for an offence committed by the acquired company prior to the merger and for which it had not been convicted. This is a landmark...