What’s this all about? A key highlighted feature of the deal between the UK and the EU in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (“TCA”) is that as of 1 January 2021 there will be zero tariffs or quotas applied to trade in goods between the UK and the EU (where those goods satisfy so-called “rules Read more »
Client Alert: Possible New Supply Chain Legislation Relating to China
Introduction Last month the UK Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, announced UK Government action over the plight of the Uyghur Muslim population in Xinjiang, China (known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)). He also confirmed an extension of a UK modern slavery legislation to introduce fines for businesses that do not comply with their transparency Read more »
Client Alert: Driving Compliance: Car Tech and Data Protection FAQs
Vehicle technology (often called car tech) is becoming increasingly sophisticated, with GPS trackers, inbuilt software, in-car cameras and other devices and apps gathering large amounts of data about numerous aspects of a driver’s driving habits and life more generally. Information is also collected about passengers and other road users. In data protection terms this data, Read more »
Client Alert: NYSBA annual meeting New York – 27 January 2020
Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong will be speaking on Brexit at the prestigious New York State Bar Association Annual Meeting in New York on Monday 27th January. The New York State Bar Association is the largest voluntary bar association in the US. Founded in 1876, the association counts two former Presidents of the US amongst its alumni. Read more »
Client Alert: Cease Processing Data Judgment
A minor but interesting recent UK High Court data protection judgment has highlighted the issue of the remedy of ceasing data processing in the matter of AL-KO Kober Ltd & Mr. Paul Jones -v- Balvinder Sambhi T/AS Torquebars, which can be found here: http://www.5rb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Al-KO-Kober-Ltd-Anor-v-Balvinder-Sambhi-2017-EWHC-2474-QB.pdf. The very basic facts of the case were as follows: The Read more »
Client Alert: Morrisons Data Breach Litigation Succeeds
On Friday judgement was handed down in one of the biggest pieces of data protection litigation in the UK so far – Various Claimants v. WM Morrisons Supermarket plc. The case established that employees of WM Morrisons Supermarket plc (a retail chain usually known as Morrisons) could succeed in getting financial compensation after a data Read more »
Client Alert: Cordery Breakfast Briefing with Tom Fox
Yesterday one of the US’s leading compliance experts, Tom Fox, joined us in London to discuss the hot compliance issues of the day with some of our clients and friends over breakfast. We took some of the themes we discussed in that roundtable and made three short films. Paradise Papers In the first of these Read more »
UK Modern Slavery guidance updated
The UK government recently updated its guidance on modern slavery entitled “Transparency in Supply Chains etc. A Practical Guide”, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transparency-in-supply-chains-a-practical-guide. Under the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 compliance disclosure requirements an organization with UK £36 million turnover that sells goods or services in the UK is required to annually publish Read more »
Client Alert: Hilton Settles US data breach action
Yesterday the New York Attorney-General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a $700,000 settlement with Hilton hotels after two data breaches in 2015 exposed over 350,000 credit card numbers in two separate breaches. Whilst in the US there are no general data protection laws equivalent to those in Europe the investigation was based on Hilton’s failure to Read more »
Everything Compliance – Episode 10 – The first 100 days of the Trump administration – Part 1
Jonathan Armstrong joins Tom Fox in the latest episode of Everything Compliance. The panel also includes Jay Rosen, Matt Kelly and Mike Volkov. This episode is the first of a two-part series of podcasts dedicated to the first 100 days of the Trump administration as it related to compliance. Jonathan leads a discussion of Read more »