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| 1 | Bribery Act 2010 A practice note about the Bribery Act 2010, which received Royal Assent in April 2010 and came into force on 1 July 2011. The background to the Act is described in Practice note, Bribery: law reform. PLC's materials on the Bribery Act are set out in Bribery Act 2010: toolkit. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
| 2 | Bribery Act 2010: facilitation payments This note looks at facilitation payments, examining in particular what they are, why the lack of an exemption in the Bribery Act has been controversial, how the SFO plans to enforce the Bribery Act in relation to them and what can be done to prevent them being made. Information is also given on the position the OECD and other countries have taken towards facilitation payments. | Practice Notes | Maintained |
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| 1 | Cross-border joint ventures: doing business together An overview of the issues required for any joint venture to operate successfully in a cross-border context.This article is part of the PLC US Special Report, which was published to mark the launch of PLC's first US services. | Articles | 11-Nov-2008 |
| 2 | Real estate: an overview An overview of the corporate real estate market in the US, covering corporate real estate investment, the sale and purchase and lease of corporate real estate, real estate tax and real estate finance.This article is part of the PLC US Special Report, which was published to mark the launch of PLC's first US services. | Articles | 11-Nov-2008 |
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| 1 | Bribery Act: revised SFO policies on facilitation payments ... On 9 October 2012 the Serious Fraud Office issued revised statements of policy on facilitation payments, business expenditure (hospitality and gifts) and self-reporting. | Legal Update: archive | 09-Oct-2012 |
| 2 | Legal FAQs: Bribery Act 2010 A PLC Commercial "Legal FAQs" article about the Bribery Act 2010, which comes into force on 1 July 2011. For details about PLC's materials on the Bribery Act, see Practice note, Bribery Act 2010: toolkit. | Legal Update: archive | 29-Apr-2010 |
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| 1 | Unusual and "badly-worded" GMP clause reviewed In AMEC Group Ltd v Secretary of State for Defence [2013] EWHC 110 (TCC), Coulson J in the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) rejected a challenge against a dispute review board's (DRB) award concerning the meaning of a guaranteed maximum price (GMP) clause. The DRB was constituted as an arbitration and the board's award was appealed under section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996. | Legal Update: Case Report | 13-Feb-2013 |