Amongst the highlights of Transparency International's sixth annual report on global corruption:

• Analysis of the causes of judicial corruption and its consequences, including an exploration of the particular impact on women

• Reports on judicial corruption in 35 countries

• Evaluation of efforts to reduce judicial corruption

• Recommendations for action against judicial corruption directed at judges, political powers, prosecutors, lawyers and civil society

• A specially commissioned survey on citizens' experiences of court corruption around the world

• The latest empirical research on judicial corruption, for example on the determinants of judicial corruption and the relationship between immunity laws and corruption

• Detailed assessments of the state of corruption in countries by national chapters of Transparency International and other experts

You can download the 2007 report right here - don't do business abroad without it.

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