By Dan Smith and James Fagan

On 25 September 2015 the United Kingdom saw its first disposal of the offence of failure by a commercial organisation to prevent bribery under section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010 (the “Failure Offence”). The Civil Recovery Unit of the Scottish Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has reported that it has recovered £212,800 under an agreed civil settlement with Brand-Rex Limited, a developer of industrial and network cabling solutions based in Scotland.