Bribery Act 2010: Ten Years On | WilmerHale
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Ten years have passed since the introduction of the UK’s primary anti-corruption law, the Bribery Act 2010 (“the Act”). This article examines the extent to which the Act has lived up to its billing as the international “gold standard” 1 for bribery legislation and looks ahead to future trends in UK economic crime enforcement. Introduction of Bribery Act Prompted Compliance Overhaul Section 7 of the Act, which criminalises the failure of a commercial organisation to prevent bribery, has had a significant impact on corporat...