Bribery Bill
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Law Reform
The United Kingdom has been under pressure to reform the law on bribery and corruption since ratifying the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transaction in December 1998. This followed a year on from the UK officially signing up to the OECD Convention. When the UK ratified the convention it concluded that existing law was sufficient to implement the convention, yet a year on an OECD WOrking Group on Bribery found the UK lacking.