
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION
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from actions that may be in the client’s self- interest but which subvert
the administration of justice.
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Bribe payers are interested in a number of services offered by lawyers.
The rst is the protection offered by solicitor– client privilege to safeguard
the condentiality of communications by a client with his or her lawyer
for the purpose of furnishing or obtaining professional legal advice or
assistance. Since legal arrangements such as this will often be viewed as
privileged information between the client corporation and the foreign
lawyer, there is a belief that the risk of detection will be much lower.
The company ...