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UK Offences of Failure to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion

August 17, 2020

Introduction The notion of failing to prevent an illegal activity has gained legal traction in recent years in the UK, most prominently with the offence of the failure of a commercial organisation to prevent bribery under the UK Bribery Act 2010, against which an “adequate prevention procedures” compliance defence exists. There are also two offences Read more »

European Data Protection Board Issues Information Note on Binding Corporate Rules & Brexit

August 14, 2020

Introduction The European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) recently issued material entitled “Information note on BCRs for Groups of undertakings/enterprises which have ICO as BCR Lead SA” (“the Note”) designed to help organisations that rely on Binding Corporate Rules (“BCRs”) prepare for when the current Brexit transition period ends. This brief article highlights the key points Read more »

EU Imposes Sanctions for Cyber-Attacks

August 13, 2020

What’s this all about? Since 2019 the Council of the European Union has had legislation in place to be able to impose so-called restrictive measures (“sanctions”) in order to respond to or deter cyber-attacks that threaten the EU or its (27) Member States. These measures can be deployed against individuals, entities, international organisations or countries. Read more »

Aven -v- Orbis UK High Court Ruling on Compensation for Distress caused by Inaccurate Processing of Personal Data

August 11, 2020

Introduction The High Court in London recently gave judgment in a data protection case linked to President Trump’s involvement in Russia and the so-called ‘Russia Dossier’ or Steele Report. In the case of Aven, Fridman & Khan -v- Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd, the High Court awarded £18,000 to two individuals of Russian or Ukrainian origin Read more »

Client Alert – EU-US Privacy Shield: Expert Insights from Jonathan Armstrong and CCI

August 10, 2020

At the end of July Jonathan Armstrong was interviewed by Sarah Hadden the Publisher of Corporate Compliance Insights about Privacy Shield, data transfer & the history of data protection in Europe. They also talk about life after Privacy Shield & whether individual US States might try and do their own deals. Additionally they chat about Read more »

Client Alert: GDPR Two Years On: Compliance Lessons Learned

August 4, 2020

Jonathan Armstrong joined the ISMG online panel recently to discuss the compliance lessons learned from the first two years of GDPR. The panel was hosted by Broadcaster Anna Delaney, the Director of Productions at ISMG. Jonathan joined Kelsey Finch of The Future of Privacy Forum and David Dumont of Hunton Andrews Kurth to discuss a Read more »

Client Alert: SFO secures convictions of two former Oil Executives

July 31, 2020

We first wrote this alert on 20 July and we have updated it to reflect the sentencing hearings. Introduction Two former Unaoil executives were convicted in London on 13 July 2020 of bribing an Iraqi government official to win lucrative oil contracts worth $800 million. Ziad Akle and Stephen Whiteley were found guilty of conspiring Read more »

Cordery Head to Head: Roy Snell on the Role of Compliance in Modern Business

July 28, 2020

In this edition of Cordery Head to Head @ Home Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong talks to Roy Snell. Roy Snell recently retired as the CEO of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE). Together these associations now total more than 15,000 members. Roy was a co-founder and the Read more »