The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer announced his budget on 16 March. This may be the last budget before the UK referendum on leaving the European Union. There are a number of interesting compliance issues arising from the budget including a new “sugar levy” on the soft drink industry from April 2018. The Chancellor also 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 »
Episode 168: Why are U.S. Presidential Candidates avoiding cyber security issues?
In this podcast Eric and Jonathan ask why the U.S. Presidential Candidates aren’t talking about cyber security when they otherwise are talking tough about fighting the enemies of the United States. Do they understand the issues relating to cyber warfare well enough to express opinions and to outline strategies and plans? TechLaw10 is a 10-minute Read more »
BREXIT and GDPR
There is a lot of nonsense talked at the moment about UK businesses not having to worry about changes to European data protection law on the basis that the UK might exit the European Union (the so called BREXIT). In my view any company that is waiting until after the BREXIT vote is misguided. Whatever Read more »
Global Data Protection News: Privacy Shield details announced
Almost a month after announcing that a deal was done between the EU and the US in order to protect European personal data, the European Commission have finally announced the details of the replacement for Safe Harbor: Privacy Shield. Cordery lawyers, Jonathan Armstrong and Gayle McFarlane, share their initial thoughts. Read our full alert here. 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 »
European Commission announces some detail on Privacy Shield scheme to replace Safe Harbor
Almost a month after announcing that a deal was done between the EU and the US in order to protect European personal data, the European Commission have finally announced the details of the replacement for Safe Harbor: Privacy Shield. We’re still working our way through all of the documentation, but thought we’d share our initial Read more »
Episode 167: Safe Harbor is dead; long live Privacy Shield?
In this podcast Eric and Jonathan look at the latest on the proposed Privacy Shield deal to replace Safe Harbor. They discuss the likely outcome and the reaction to the announcement of a possible deal on both sides of the Atlantic. TechLaw10 is a 10-minute audio podcast update from U.S. lawyer Eric Sinrod (Duane Morris) Read more »
Safe Harbor enforcement continues
We have reported in earlier alerts about the issues with the collapse of the Safe Harbor Scheme for EU-US data transfers. You can see our earlier alerts and films here. We also reported in our alert on 9 February on the start of Safe Harbor enforcement with the CNIL’s action in France against Facebook. Unconfirmed reports Read more »
Policies and training
In this short video, Cordery lawyer Jonathan Armstrong explains the importance to companies of policies and training together with proper communication and metrics. See our collection of handpicked compliance policies in our Compliance Policy Library and more about our Training Solutions.. For more information please contact Jonathan Armstrong. Jonathan Armstrong, Cordery, Lexis House, 30 Farringdon Street, Read more »
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