Which of the following is a new corporate offence introduced by the Bribery Act 2010?

• A. Failure by a commercial organisation to prevent bribery, with a defense of adequate bribery-prevention measures.
• B. Offences of offering or promising a bribe.
• C. Offence of bribery of a foreign public official.
• D. Non-disclosure of bribery payments.

Answer: (A)

The key idea here is corporate liability for bribery. The Bribery Act 2010 introduces a new offence for commercial organisations: if someone connected with the organisationBribes or offers a bribe, the organisation itself can be prosecuted unless it can show it had adequate procedures in place to prevent bribery. That defense—adequate bribery-prevention measures—allows the organisation to avoid liability if it can prove it had effective controls, policies, training, due diligence, and monitoring to stop bribery from occurring.

This makes the described offence the distinctive “new” corporate liability from the Act. The other items refer to bribery offences that can apply to individuals or to broader bribery acts, but they do not reflect the corporate offence requiring the organisation to have proper preventive measures. Non-disclosure of bribery payments isn’t itself a separate corporate offence under the Act.