Advising a global business intelligence and corporate investigations provider (both the senior management and the investigations operatives) on the lawfulness of the methods they were employing in the conduct of a global corporate investigation into suspected corruption and civil fraud. Rhys advised on the Data Protection Act, Bribery Act, and Fraud Act, as well as on the likely admissibility of the evidence they had obtained in UK civil and criminal courts. Instructed alone by BCL Burton Copeland.