Who's bribing whom? Do you know, and should you care, what your suppliers are up to?

The Bribery Act 2010 creates a number of offences, one of which specifically affects organisations which have outsourcing and other service arrangements in place. This makes it an offence for a "relevant commercial organisation" to fail to prevent bribery by a person associated with it. This may include those who perform services on behalf of an organisation and so may cover outsource service providers.

This briefing looks at the guidance that the Government has issued relating to the new offence and some practical steps organisations can take to ensure they have adequate procedures in place to prevent bribery and to benefit from the defence of having adequate procedures in place. 

This briefing first appeared in Issue 25 of Outsource Magazine (Autumn 2011).