Introduction Recently the group of UK Members of Parliament tasked by the UK government (through the Home Office) with doing an independent review of the UK Modern Slavery Act issued their “Second interim report: Transparency in supply chains”, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/modern-slavery-act-2015-review-second-interim-report. This article sets out the highlights of the report’s recommendations. What Read more »
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Client Alert: UK Modern Slavery Compliance update
Cordery Partner André Bywater does a round-up of UK modern slavery compliance issues in the UK in conversation with Adam Turteltaub, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & International Programs Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics & Health Care Compliance Association. Resources Training is a vital part of any compliance, which is equally true of modern Read more »
Podcast: Everything You Need to Know About the UK Data Protection Act 2018
The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), the UK’s third generation of data protection law, came into effect on 25 May 2018, the same commencement day as that of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Act’s commencement raises many questions: • How does it differ from the DPA 1998? • How does it Read more »
UK government warns 17,000 businesses about slavery disclosure/transparency non-compliance & issues annual slavery report
Introduction Earlier this autumn the UK government (through the Home Office): Wrote to the CEOs of some 17,000 business “telling them to open up about modern slavery in their supply chains, or risk being named as “in breach of the law”; and, Issued its “2018 Annual Report on Modern Slavery”. What is UK modern slavery Read more »
Everything Compliance – Episode 37 – The Enforcement (or not) Edition
https://jdsupra-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/ae7b2e52-052a-488e-8c6b-763291fae937.mp4 This week’s episode considers one article which recently appeared in the New York Times, entitled, “Trump Administration Spares Corporate Wrongdoers Billions in Penalties”. Each panelist considers the piece and its underlying principals from their own perspective. Jonathan Armstrong considers whether or not the US is losing its role as the global anti-corruption policeman? If Read more »
Everything Compliance – Episode 36 – The Live from SCCE Edition
Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. The genesis of Everything Compliance was our first podcast three years ago at SCCE in Chicago. We reconvene for this week’s episode, our 36th, at the SCCE 2018 Compliance and Ethics Institute. This year we record in Las Vegas. We have a potpourri of topics and free flowing Read more »
UK Modern Slavery Legislation Review
Introduction The UK government recently began a review of the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015, including the compliance transparency requirement. This follows a separate recent official UK report about the cost to the UK economy of modern slavery. What is modern slavery compliance all about? Under the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 (“the Act”) compliance Read more »
Client Alert: New Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Director assumes office
The new Director of the SFO, Lisa Osofski, assumed office on 28 August 2018. Her appointment was announced in June 2018 and, whilst it was announced then that she would not be able to take office immediately due to some existing professional obligations, she in fact started a little earlier than planned. Ms Osofski is Read more »
Client Alert: EU Geo-Blocking Rules
In February 2018 the EU adopted new rules (Regulation 2018/302) to prevent so-called “geo-blocking”. We have written previously on the geo-blocking proposal which can be found here: http://www.corderycompliance.com/eu-proposal-to-ban-geo-blocking/. These new rules could have important implications for anyone doing business online. What’s this all about? In short, these new rules prohibit unjustified geo-blocking and other forms Read more »
Client Alert: Update on UK Bribery Act 2010
Over the past few months, there has been a great deal of media coverage in the UK regarding the prosecution and enforcement of the UK Bribery Act 2010. Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong will be speaking with noted US expert, Tom Fox, in Houston on Thursday April 12. Some of the highlights include: The first contested prosecution of Read more »
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