Oct 31, 2017 Update on Bangladesh Accord and Landmark Arbitration Rulings By Boris Dzida By Boris Dzida, Satya Staes Polet, Jean-François Gerard and Ludovica Mascaretti The Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety...
Oct 30, 2017 SEC announces "Cyber Unit" to target crypto coin misconduct By Edward Beard The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on 25 September the creation of a new Cyber Unit to investigate initial coin offering...
Oct 30, 2017 Does Your Compliance Program Address These 4 Factors? By Jonathan Ware Hui Chen, the first (now former) US Department of Justice “compliance consultant," described what she sees as the four critical...
Oct 30, 2017 The Disappearing Trial – the growth of trial waiver mechanisms for individuals and corporates By Holly Williams More and more criminal cases are being resolved without a full trial ever taking place – the latest figures show that over 97% of federal...
Oct 20, 2017 KRACKdown: dealing with the attack on Wi-Fi By Theresa Ehlen On 16 October it was discovered by researchers that there are several major security vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi networks protected by Wi-Fi...
Oct 20, 2017 In anticipation of Brexit, the UK Government introduces new draft legislation on sanctions and anti-money laundering By Daniel Lawrence On 18 October 2017, the Government introduced the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill in the House of Lords. The detailed...
Oct 19, 2017 Buyers and bidders beware: lessons learned from the failed £6.2bn Magnox contract By Kate Gough Following a successful legal challenge (at the cost of approximately £122 million), cancellation of the contract awarded and the launch...
Oct 17, 2017 Consumer law enforcement post-Brexit - future models for cooperation By Thomas van der Klugt The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently published its written submission to the House of Lords EU Justice Sub-Committee’s...
Oct 16, 2017 Corporate offences of failure to prevent the criminal facilitation of tax evasion By Christina Seneviratne The Criminal Finances Act 2017 has introduced two new corporate criminal offences of failing to prevent the facilitation of UK and...
Oct 13, 2017 Getting more out of your IP - UK IP Office seeks views By Sophie Hosking The UK Intellectual Property Office is consulting on how organisations might collaborate, innovate and commercialise their IP rights...
Oct 09, 2017 Cyber-security and financial institutions By Rhodri Thomas This post looks at the legal landscape for financial institutions in the wake of the Equifax cyber-attack. The scale and sophistication...
Oct 06, 2017 Towards the EU Digital Single Market: free flow of data By Giles Pratt The European Commission has published the latest proposal in its EU Digital Single Market strategy: a regulation to ensure the free flow...