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Authors : 1. Peter N. Kobets,
Doctor of Law, Professor, Chief Researcher
All-Russia Scientific-research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs
Genesis of legislative bases of bribery counteraction in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Objective: to analyze the formation and development of the UK anti-bribery legislation for possible use of foreign regulations when reforming the Russian anti-corruption legislation.
Methods: as the methodological basis of the research, the author used various general scientific techniques and methods of cognition: modeling, analysis, synthesis, formal-logical approach, and specific scientific methods.
Results: the author highlights in detail the program approaches and regulatory legal acts of the United Kingdom regulating its anti-corruption policy in the field of bribery, that ensure a productive combination of legal and social measures to counter the phenomenon under consideration. In the course of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that, in modern conditions, it is relevant to study law enforcement and legislative experience in combating bribery in the UK as one of the leading states that are most actively engaged in legislative activities in the field of anti-corruption. Until recently, the legal framework for struggling against corruption in the UK was built around a number of regulatory legal acts that had equal legal force and were sources of statutory law. The United Kingdom Bribery Act 2010 entered into force on 1 July 2011 and replaced a group of previous anti-bribery laws in the United Kingdom. In many aspects, the law goes beyond the scope of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 in many ways, as it also criminalizes intermediary payments and corruption in the private sector. This law is distinguished from previous regulatory legal acts by clear structural characteristics of bribery and innovative solutions to minimize and eliminate this phenomenon.
Scientific novelty: this paper is the first to substantiate the positive foreign legislative experience in countering bribery in the UK, which can be used not only to improve national legislation, but also to change international legal norms in this area. In the context of globalization, the developed world community is becoming increasingly aware of the scale of consequences caused by the activities of corrupt government structures. The modern legislative frameworks in the field of fighting corruption in the UK, which have identified a number of new types of offenses, help to optimize the activities of the British law enforcement agencies and minimize corruption.
Practical significance: the main provisions and conclusions of the work can be used in scientific, pedagogical and law enforcement activities when considering issues related to the improvement of the Russian anti-corruption legislation.
Keywords :
Criminal law and criminology; Great Britain; Legal system; Law-making; Common law acts; Sources of statutory law; Legislative approaches; Electoral system; Bribery counteraction; Confiscation of property; Bribery
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Citation :
Kobets P. N. Genesis of legislative bases of bribery counteraction in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Actual Problems of Economics and Law, 2020, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 533–544 (in Russ.). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21202/1993-047X.14.2020.3.533-544
Type of article : The scientific article
Date of receipt of the article :
13.02.2020
Date of adoption of the print :
15.03.2020
Date of online accommodation :
25.09.2020
