ABSTRACT
If corruption is to be controlled, or even so substantially got rid of that the word cure might be used, and then it must first of all be understood. As a starting point consider a number of lists of cures, remedies or controls. R. Brabainti suggests: a common morality; detachment of administration from political pressures; a real knowledge of the job on the part of supervisors; reasonably long tenure of senior posts; diffusion of information; legislative oversight; ‘an ideology of austerity’; anti-corruption control bodies; and adequate salaries. Lawyers have played a leading role in the campaign against political corruption and in a variety of roles, but it is interesting and disturbing to note that a broad interest over the profession as a whole is paralleled by considerable disinterest among commercial lawyers. Honest judges and lawyers at work on corruption cases are confronted with issues which at least in the past have arisen infrequently and where acquittals are common.
