In this episode, Jonathan Armstrong and Ton Fox discuss Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s recent announcement that he will be resigning as British PM when his successor is announced. There’s a focus on what this might mean for the worlds of compliance and the law. Some of the highlights include: The reasons for the resignation. How Read more »
Further UK Sanctions on Russia
What’s this about? The UK has continued to impose sanctions on Russian individuals and entities under the UK sanctions regime with regard to the war in Ukraine; for more about how the UK sanctions regime works see the What is the UK sanctions regime? section of our article here https://www.corderycompliance.com/add65uksanctions/. This article looks in brief Read more »
TechLaw10: Eric Sinrod & Jonathan Armstrong on the Technology Law aspects of AI
In this edition of TechLaw10 Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong talks to Professor Eric Sinrod from his home in California. They look at the technology law aspects of AI. Jonathan talks about some of the conflicts between AI and GDPR. There are more thoughts on this here https://www.corderycompliance.com/ai-and-gdpr-teaching-machines-fairness/ Jonathan talks about the investigation and regulatory action against Read more »
Continued UK Sanctions on Russia
What’s this about? The UK has continued to impose sanctions on Russian individuals and entities under the UK sanctions regime with regard to the war in Ukraine; for more about how the UK sanctions regime works see the What is the UK sanctions regime? section of our article here https://www.corderycompliance.com/add65uksanctions/. This article lists key sanctions Read more »
UK Modern Slavery Update – Reforms Finally On The Way?
Introduction In this year’s Queen’s Speech it was announced that the UK government will be introducing a Modern Slavery Bill in this parliamentary session. This article briefly looks at this. Background Under the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the 2015 Act), compliance disclosure and transparency requirements mean that an organization with an annual turnover of Read more »
EU FAQs on Standard Contractual Clauses
Introduction The European Commission recently issued a question and answer document about the EU standard contractual clauses that were issued in 2021. This article briefly looks at some of the highlights. What’s this all about? Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR), contractual clauses ensuring appropriate data protection safeguards can be used as Read more »
UK Government Proposed Changes to Data Protection Regime
Introduction The United Kingdom government is planning on changing the UK privacy/data protection regime, which consists of UK GDPR, PECR (E-Privacy rules) and the Data Protection Act 2018. This article briefly highlights the key points of proposed reform. What’s this all about? In May this year the UK government announced as part of its legislative Read more »
UK High Court Rejects Misuse of Private Information Claim in Smith v TalkTalk Case
Introduction Claims before the courts in both the UK and EU countries for compensation for alleged privacy violations continue to be brought in ample quantity. In the recent case of Graeme Smith & Others (“the individuals”) v TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC (“TalkTalk”) the UK High Court dismissed the individuals’ claim that TalkTalk could be liable Read more »
Everything Compliance – Episode 101 – The Glencore Edition
Jonathan Armstrong joins the 101th episode of the Everything Compliance podcast where the theme is bribery and corruption including one of the biggest global bribery cases so far involving Glencore. Jonathan explores the Glencore investigation from the UK perspective. He also looks at the Serious Fraud Office’s prospects of bringing individual prosecutions. And he looks Read more »
Client Alert: Oil bribery cases in the news again
Introduction Bribery has been in the spotlight again in recent weeks with two large UK bribery investigations nearing a close. Glencore The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into Glencore started in June 2019 with the SFO investigating deals in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and South Sudan. According to the SFO, Glencore’s agents Read more »
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