Submission to the Woolf Committee
from The Corner House
first published 31 October 2007
This Corner House submission urges the Woolf Committee, set up by BAE, to look in detail at BAE's use of agents and consultants to obtain contracts, lobbying policies, covert monitoring of NGOs, failure to cooperate with law enforcement authorities, and at how BAE should deal with allegations of its past malpractice.
In June 2007, defence company BAE Systems appointed Lord Woolf (former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000-2005, the country's second-highest judge at the time) to head an independent review of BAE's current business policies and practices.
This Corner House submission urges the Woolf Committee to look in detail at BAE's use of agents and consultants to obtain contracts, lobbying policies, covert monitoring of NGOs, failure to cooperate with law enforcement authorities, and at how BAE should deal with allegations of its past malpractice.
The Woolf Committee is due to report in May 2008.