Offshore Bribery Roundtable

The Centre for Common Law (CCL) and the Great Britain China Centre (GBCC) jointly held a small, closed-door roundtable on offshore bribery on 11 January 2017 in Beijing, supported by the Canada Policy Center.

Twenty-three guests from China, the UK, the USA and Canada attended the roundtable, including a Ministry of Justice official in charge of mutual legal assistance and two representatives of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate on the Chinese side. GBCC sponsored the participation of Professor Dan Hough, Director of the Anti-Corruption Research Centre at the University of Sussex, and Helen Nisbet, Assistant Procurator Fiscal (Specialist Casework) from the Scottish Crown Office and Prosecution Service; while the China Policy Center invited an American corporate lawyer practising in Hong Kong. Experts spoke on their experience of tackling offshore bribery from practical and theoretical standpoints.

This roundtable was an “ice-breaking” event in the study of offshore bribery in China, which is a very new area of research for Chinese scholars.