3/31/2025 1:12:13 PM FCA publishes its 2025-2030 strategy: what we can expect over the next 5 years By David Hamilton On 25 March, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its Strategy 2025-2030 with the straplines “Deepening Trust”, “Rebalancing...
1/17/2025 3:05:58 PM Qualitative technology and its role in human rights due diligence By Mark Stephens Qualitative technology is a research method that uses non-numerical data to understand how people use digital technology. It involves...
1/12/2025 5:06:57 PM Navigating ESG legal and regulatory risks: New domestic legislation, business & human rights, and the OECD principles By Mark Stephens In recent years, there has been an increased focus on the issue of business and human rights. This has led to a number of regulatory...
12/3/2024 11:17:55 AM Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence - Under the Radar? Think Again By David Hamilton The fraud enforcement landscape is undergoing significant change. With the Government's official guidance now published, businesses...
11/27/2024 5:13:48 PM Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence - Government Guidance By Kyle Phillips Alexander Vilardo On 6 November 2024, the UK Government published guidance to help organisations deal with the new "failure to prevent fraud" offence,...
7/10/2024 4:00:31 PM 5 key takeaways from the landmark wrongful trading decision in Re BHS Group Limited By Rebecca Stratton In the recent case of Wright and Rowley, BHS and others v Chappell and others [2024] EWHC 1417 the liquidators of British Home Stores...
7/9/2024 10:25:37 AM Landmark Court of Appeal judgment changes AML landscape in the UK By David Hamilton Fran Garvey The Court of Appeal handed down its landmark ruling in R (on the application of World Uyghur Congress) v National Crime Agency [2024]...
4/26/2024 2:43:33 PM ESG - A European Response By Vernon Dennis What is ESG? The ever-increasing multiplicity of issues and accompanying legislation and regulation that are now badged 'ESG' may mean...
4/25/2024 3:37:16 PM The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: The countdown to compliance has begun By Mark Stephens Two years after the proposal was first introduced to the European Parliament, the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive...
2/23/2024 12:28:32 PM Why Businesses Fail: culture is the essence of all business success, and it has a ripple effect. By Vernon Dennis My sweet spot has been boardroom advisory focussing on insolvency and restructuring but increasingly this leads me to question why...
4/14/2023 1:09:11 PM Failure to prevent fraud: a new corporate criminal offence By Ian Ryan Fran Garvey Georgia Learoyd After over a decade of calls for reform to corporate criminal liability, on 11 April 2023 the Government finally announced its intention...
5/7/2020 12:00:00 AM Can Government proposals stop winding-up petitions for rent arrears now? By Howard Kennedy An unreported companies case on 6 May 2020 has put a stop to a commercial landlord's threat to put the tenant into liquidation for rent...