CORRUPTION CONVENTION
January 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLJUDGES and jurors across the continent of Europe should in future be protected from corruption by their national governments in all legal cases, under an extension of a Criminal Law Convention on Corruption that has been agreed by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. This body - independent of the European Union - includes eastern as well as western European countries, notably Russia; its member countries have a political commitment to introduce national laws reflecting its ratified conventions. The extension of its corruption ...
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