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In what should serve as a stark reminder for both employers and individuals, police in Ontario recently charged a corporate employer and two individua...
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... fines on corporations and creating criminal enforcement programmes. In 2010, massive fines wer...The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), Canada's Competition Bureau and the Mexican Federal Compe...
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... enforcement of the non-criminal aspects of Canada's Competition Act (Act) and their implications for...
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... Convention) between the United States and Canada require the United States, upon request and consis... Justice Department referral for possible criminal prosecution is in effect and because Revenue Canad...
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... fines on corporations and creating criminal enforcement programmes. In 2010, massive fines wer...The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), Canada's Competition Bureau and the Mexican Federal Compe...
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... facility under the provisions of the Criminal Code, having been found not criminally responsible...(25) . The Supreme Court of Canada has held that the Criminal Code does not empower t...
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... the Commission and the Attorney General of Canada conceded that section 13 of the CHRA breached sect... of the rules of evidence as in a criminal proceeding.48 The Attorney General argued that the...
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- While Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prosecutions in the United States continued apace, the first half of 2011 showed some signs that judicial decisions and congressional scrutiny were leading to more - or, in some cases, less - clarity concerning the scope of the statute and the government's enforcement policy, according to global law firm Shearman & Sterling's semiannual report, "Recent Trends and Patterns in FCPA Enforcement," part of the firm's widely distributed FCPA Digest.
Although the US government continues to collect record and headline-making fines in some FCPA prosecutions, the average corporate penalty continues to be relatively moderate, the analysis found. At the same time, overseas developments, particularly the coming into f...
... words, and it was notable that Korea and Canada both announced their first substantive prosecution... the SEC and result in more civil - and criminal - enforcement actions. "There are always a number ...
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This article examines the federal government's growing use of 18 USC § 1346 to prosecute public company executives for breaching their fiduciary duties. Section 1346 is a controversial but under-examined statute making it a felony to engage in a scheme "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." Although enacted by Congress over twenty years ago, the Supreme Court repeatedly declined to review the statute, until now. The questions before the Supreme Court are of particular interest to public company executives and their professional advisors. Traditionally, Delaware law has governed the content and enforcement of executives' legal duties, largely protecting public company fiduciaries from civil liability. Now, with the emergence of honest services fraud as a weapon ...
... extracted from Hollinger but, rather, from Canada, in the form of a tax benefit.415 On appeal, howev...
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... we only have one agreement and that's with Canada. We are pursuing agreement with the European comm...ROGERS: So it was a criminal act, more?. AVALOS: Absolutely. ROGERS: Onc...