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Your essential four step guide to risk management

The Importance of having an integrated risk and business strategy Does your risk strategy and business strategy sit in two separate folders? When drafting your risk strategy, was it aligned to the business strategy and written with your organisational goals at the forefront? Or, as most companies do, is your risk strategy little more than a […]

Government rushes through new Money Laundering Regulations 2017

Parliamentary procedure broken in order to meet today’s EU deadline The government confirmed at the last minute the new EU Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (4MLD) will come into force today (Monday) in order to meet the European deadline of transposing the 4th Directive into national legislation by 26 June 2017. Due to the general election, […]

Is your law firm doing enough to tackle modern slavery?

In June, the Law Society published its first slavery and human trafficking statement under the requirements of Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act. This emphasises its call for the legal industry to be at the forefront of the fight against modern slavery. Overall, 87 law firms have published their own modern slavery statements – a […]

What is Legionella and what are the risks?

What is Legionella? Legionella is a pathogenic, waterborne bacterium that causes Legionellosis – the potentially serious Legionnaires’ disease – and the similar, but less serious Pontiac fever and Lochgoilhead fever. Legionella bacteria is commonly found in water, occurring naturally in lakes and rivers but has also been found to thrive and dangerously multiply, in artificial […]

The SRA handbook – what will be changing?

The SRA has just published their decision and response to the ‘looking to the future’ consultation on changes to the SRA handbook. Over 11,000 people engaged in the process, reflecting opinion from a broad range of people and organisations including solicitors, law firms the public and representative bodies. Solicitors can not only expect a shorter, […]

Equality and Diversity Policies: What is Workplace Discrimination

Creating a working environment that embraces all people free from discrimination, is a continual challenge for employers. As responsible employers, you have a duty to provide equality and diversity in the workplace where employees and customers are treated fairly and equally regardless of colour, race, age, gender or belief and valuing the differences and diversity […]

Record fine for nuisance calls imposed by ICO. Are you on the right side of data laws?

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently imposed a record £400,000 fine on communications company Keurboom. The fine was the result of a large-scale campaign of automated, unsolicited marketing calls. Keurboom Communications made nearly 100 million automated calls to people who had not given consent. Some of the calls were made at night. And some people […]

Course on preventing facilitation of tax evasion

 VinciWorks has released a new e-learning course on tax evasion. The course will teach employees how to spot tax evaders, and the reporting procedures required of them. The training will cover the organisation’s policies and procedures, which include provisions of The Act and any other regulatory rules and principles. This includes: An explanation of when and […]