Overview

A 4-module course covering all four UK Bribery Act offences: active bribery (Section 1), passive bribery (Section 2), bribing a foreign public official (Section 6), and the corporate offence of failure to prevent bribery (Section 7). Tender pretexts, hospitality thresholds, facilitation-payment edge cases, and middleman-handoff scenarios. Approximately 105 minutes total. Course delivered in English.

Target Audience:

Senior managers, sales leads, business development teams, procurement, in-house counsel, and finance teams at any UK organisation or organisation with UK operations.

Features and USPs:

Audio dilemma scenarios. Tender scorecard activity. Hospitality threshold judgement. Middleman-handoff cinematic. UK Bribery Act adequate-procedures defence (Section 7(2)). Coordination with the SFO. Legally reviewed by qualified UK counsel.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify bribery and corruption risk in tender, hospitality, and third-party contexts
• Apply the UK Section 7 corporate offence and the adequate-procedures defence
• Distinguish facilitation payments from grease payments from bribes (UK position: facilitation payments are illegal)
• Run third-party due diligence proportionate to risk
• Defend the corporate adequate-procedures defence against an SFO investigation