This should be easy: In England, what’s a bribe?

One of the benefits, apart from the foreign earnings, of  London’s court clogging Russian litigation, has been the collation of principles relating to the English civil law of bribery which can be summarized as follows:

The underlying substantive and remedial policies behind protecting a principal against bribes is an agent’s obligation to act in the best interests of its principal and to avoid a real possibility of potential conflict.