As part of the Control BAE campaign, London CAAT set up stall near Old Street station on Friday 30th November to call for the reopening of the Serious Fraud Office’s enquiry into alleged corruption in deals with Saudi Arabia. We chose the location because it was outside the BAe/HAL (Hindustan Aerounatics Ltd) joint venture company [...]
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Elvis, Aliens and the unlikelihood of BAe’s innocence
Posted in BAE, BAE Systems, CAAT, High Court, London CAAT, Saudi Arabia, Serious Fraud Office, activism, anti-arms, arms companies, arms trade, bribery allegations, bribes, campaigning, central london, corruption, legal challenge on December 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
CAAT wins again !
Posted in BAE, BAE Systems, CAAT, High Court, Saudi Arabia, Serious Fraud Office, UK, UK government, activism, anti-arms, arms companies, arms trade, blogging, bribery allegations, bribes, campaigning, corruption, court, government, legal challenge, peace, pledge, pledgebank, protest, rule of law, victory on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick one to say how excited I am that CAAT and Corner house have won the court case last Friday . The permission has now been granted to bring a full judicial review against the governments decision to cut short a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into alleged corruption by BAE Systems [...]
Protest at BAE Systems AGM
Posted in BAE, BAE Systems, CAAT, Indonesia, London CAAT, Saudi Arabia, Serious Fraud Office, UK, UK government, West Papua, activism, anti-arms, arms companies, bribery allegations, bribes, campaigning, corruption, court, government, legal challenge, peace, pledge, pledgebank, protest, rule of law, war on May 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just came back from the CAAT protest at the BAE Systems AGM. It was a great success. Before the start of the AGM we gathered in front of the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster.
Some protesters had prepared a stunt: One of us dressed up as a judge. Two others were dressed up [...]
News from Bristol
Posted in BAE Systems, CAAT, Economics, Saudi Arabia, activism, arms trade, campaigning, corruption, government, legal challenge, rule of law on March 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sorry I am so late in posting this. But it is a good time for it, as we have just had a successful public meeting this evening organised by Bristol CAAT, on the title “A law unto themselves: BAE, the arms trade and corruption”. The speakers were Nick Gilby, fellow-blogger here under the name of [...]
