In September 2021, the French Cour de Cassation reversed the annulment that the Paris Cour d'appel earlier had granted in regard to an arbitral award in Alexander Brothers v Alstom on grounds of corruption. This brought French courts in line with their English counterparts, at least in that one case, the latter having accepted the Alexander Brothers award as enforceable. Noteworthy beyond the welcome consistency that the recent French judgment imparts in one case, that and other recent judgments cast light on several issues in international arbitration, including the arbitrability of allegations of fraud or corruption, the relevance of evidence of corruption ‘downstream’ from a contract, and the legal effects (if any) on third parties of internal compliance regimes that enterprises adopt in response to national regulatory and enforcement actions in respect of corruption.

2021 年 9 月，法国最高法院撤销了巴黎上诉法院早先就亚历山大兄弟诉阿尔斯通案以腐败为由作出的仲裁裁决的废止。这使法国法院与英国法院保持一致，至少在一个案件中，后者接受了亚历山大兄弟裁决为可执行的。值得注意的是，除了最近的法国判决在一个案件中所赋予的可喜的一致性之外，该判决和其他最近的判决阐明了国际仲裁中的几个问题，包括欺诈或腐败指控的可仲裁性，腐败证据“下游”的相关性合同，以及企业为响应国家反腐败监管和执法行动而采用的内部合规制度对第三方的法律影响（如有）。