January News Roundup
Tragic death of a five year old girl A five year old girl was in the lift at her family’s home and put her head through a damaged vision panel. The lift started moving upwards, trapping her between the lift and the ground floor ceiling. This resulted in fatal neck and back injuries. The tragic […]
Health and Safety Fines – What You Need to Know
Fines for health and safety violations in the UK have risen to record levels in recent years, affecting thousands of organisations across the UK. But who pays them? What are the costs? And how can you avoid them altogether? 2018 was, without a doubt, a landmark year for fines handed down for breaches in health and safety. Prosecutions have […]
Market Manipulation – Understanding this dangerous phenomenon
Market abuse refers to processes in which individuals and/or firms aim to decrease market integrity and reduce investor protections. An offence related to Market Abuse is Market Manipulation. In 2016, the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), which contains prohibitions on market manipulation and other market abuse offences, came into effect. You can find out about this […]
Fines are Rising for Breaching Health and Safety Rules
Fines for health and safety breaches are rising – and rising fast. During the first year that new sentencing guidelines were introduced (year to 31 January 2017) fines increased from £35.4m to £73.2m – an increase of 74%. Fines levied by local authorities increased by a staggering 1870%, from £0.8m to £15.2m. Rising fines are […]
Data Protection Day 2019: How compliant are you?
28 January marks the 12th annual Data Protection Day, launched by the Council of Europe in 2006. The day marks the date on which the Council of Europe’s data protection convention, known as “Convention 108” was opened to signature. This was the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection. Since the […]
Market Rules training – VinciWorks releases two new courses
VinciWorks has released two new courses under the subject of Market Rules to help businesses train their staff and comply with complex competition law and market abuse rules. Coming against the backdrop of increasing enforcement action from the Competition and Markets Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority, VinciWorks’ new Market Rules courses will cover UK […]
What does the Massive Marriott Data Breach mean for Data Security?
The Marriott hotel group recently reported a huge data breach, which they claim has been ongoing since 2014. The company identified the breach after an internal security tool alerted them to an unauthorised access attempt. After investigating the breach, they discovered that an unknown agent had copied and encrypted information in one of their databases […]
In conversation with the CMA – businesses still unclear of the dangers of breaching competition law
In a webinar on competition law, I interviewed the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) David Harper and Kwadjo Adjepong. During the interview, they covered price fixing, market sharing and cartels. You can download the full interview and webinar, together with useful competition law compliance resources, here. Lack of knowledge on competition law In a recent […]
VinciWorks recognised for helping businesses stay on the right side of #MeToo
The Lawyer recently published an article highlighting some of the biggest City law firms’ lack of effort in combatting workplace harassment and bullying. In the article, these large firms are criticised for only doing the minimum, if that, to ensure workplace harassment does not go unnoticed and unidentified. When faced by The Lawyer with the […]
On-demand webinar – Competition Law: Know Your Market
In our recent webinar we covered competition law and what you need to know to be compliant. We were lucky to be joined by Head of Investigations and Intelligence David Harper and Assistant Director of Cartels within the Enforcement Directorate Kwadjo Adjepong from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). We explored the implications of existing […]
