The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a private health company, HCA International Ltd, for failing to keep fertility patients’ personal information secure. This is just the latest in a long line of cases highlighting the regulator’s campaign to make healthcare providers take their data protection responsibilities seriously. What was the penalty? A £200,000 monetary Read more »
Predictions for 2017
Each year in January we sit down and reflect what are likely to be the compliance challenges of the year ahead. We share this information with our clients to help them predict their likely compliance challenges and we thought it would be interesting again in 2017 to share some of Read more »
Failure to prevent bribery – Scottish Court confirms shareholders can be punished
Introduction In April 2016 we talked about the proceedings brought in Scotland by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service against Braid Group (Holdings) Limited which is a holding company for various subsidiaries in the freight and logistics business. That case was one of the first prosecutions under Section 7 of the UK Bribery Act Read more »
Scottish £2.2 million settlement case for failure to prevent bribery
The Scottish prosecution service, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, recently announced that a Glasgow logistics company has paid UK £2.2 million (USD $,3,113,810) under a civil settlement after self-reporting to the authorities in a matter concerning failure to prevent bribery under the UK Bribery Act 2010 (“the Act”). Section 7 of the Act Read more »
Mossack Fonseca leak: video update
Cordery lawyer, André Bywater discusses how the leak of more than 11½ million documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca has significant ramifications in a whole host of different areas of compliance. Read our full alert here. There are more details of our investigations, bribery and sanctions practices on our website. Details of the work Read more »
Mossack Fonseca #Panamaleaks breach has significant compliance consequences for most businesses
Sunday’s revelations about the leak of more than 11½ million documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca have significant ramifications in a whole host of different areas of compliance. The leak does not just affect Panama. According to the Mossack Fonseca the firm has offices outside of Panama including 12 offices in Europe. There Read more »
UK Bribery Act 2010 FAQs
We have published a new version of our popular FAQs looking at the UK Bribery Act 2010. We will be launching these FAQs at The Association of Corporate Counsel Europe Annual Conference in Rome. The FAQs include our commentary on three of the largest recent Bribery Act cases, the Brand-Rex case on hospitality, the Sweett Read more »
First UK failure to prevent bribery conviction
A company has now been convicted in the UK for the first time for failure to prevent bribery. On 19 February 2016 Sweett Group PLC (“Sweett”), a business operating in the construction and professional services sector, was convicted and sentenced for the corporate offence under Section 7 of the UK Bribery Act 2010 (“the 2010 Read more »
Predictions for 2016
Each year in January we sit down and reflect what are likely to be the compliance challenges of the year ahead. We share this information with our clients to help them predict their likely compliance challenges and we thought it would be interesting this year to share some of our thoughts more widely. We have Read more »
Episode 162: Thoughts and condolences regarding the Paris tragedies
This week’s podcast looks at the horrific events in Paris. How can we properly use social media to respond in times of crisis? What should we do? What should we not do? Jonathan and Eric look at some of the issues. TechLaw10 is a 10-minute audio podcast update from U.S. lawyer Eric Sinrod (Duane Morris) and Read more »
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