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Combatting corruption: Australia’s strict foreign public official bribery penalties (and how to prepare)

30 September 2024

By Jasmine Forde, Emma Lawrence, Michelle Mizutani, Sati Nagra

Jasmine Forde, Emma Lawrence, Michelle Mizutani and Sati Nagra explain the implications of the stringent new corporate offence for failing to prevent bribery of foreign public officials – and how businesses can prepare in order to avoid heavy penalties.

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Challenge to “Letters of No Consent” regime laid to rest by the Court of Final Appeal

21 May 2024

By Paul Starr, Jesse Tizard, Jenny Fok, Sian Knight

In the case Tam Sze Leung v Commissioner of Police [1], the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (“CFA”) unanimously upheld the “Letters of No Consent” (“LNC”) regime, as operated by the police under the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance (Cap.

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The five W’s and How of Hong Kong’s mutual evaluation assessment

5 July 2019

By Leonie Tear

As Hong Kong eagerly anticipates the release of the Financial Action Task Force’s (“FATF”) mutual evaluation report (“MER”), discussed at last month’s FATF Plenary, we decided the timing was right to take a quick look at the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, HOW AND WHY of mutual evaluations.

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