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Practice Compliance weekly highlights—8 April 2021

Practice Compliance weekly highlights—8 April 2021

The following Practice Compliance news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Practice Compliance weekly highlights—8 April 2021

LexisPSL and MLex trial new interactive EU GDPR enforcement tracker

LexisPSL and MLex trial new interactive EU GDPR enforcement tracker

The following Commercial news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on LexisPSL and MLex trial new interactive EU GDPR enforcement tracker

DPAs may not be receiving sufficient judicial scrutiny

DPAs may not be receiving sufficient judicial scrutiny

The following Corporate Crime news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on DPAs may not be receiving sufficient judicial scrutiny

Practice Compliance weekly highlights—1 April 2021

Practice Compliance weekly highlights—1 April 2021

The following Practice Compliance news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Practice Compliance weekly highlights—1 April 2021

Featured Practice Compliance content

Facilitation payments under the Bribery Act 2010

Facilitation payments under the Bribery Act 2010

Facilitating the performance of a duty by public officialsFacilitation payments, also known as facilitating or grease payments, are generally small...

What is a solicitor's undertaking?

What is a solicitor's undertaking?

An undertaking is a commitment by a solicitor to do something. It can be enforced against the solicitor by the courts. Failure to comply with an...

Active bribery, passive bribery and bribing foreign public officials

Active bribery, passive bribery and bribing foreign public officials

The purpose of this Practice Note is to provide a general understanding of the offences under section 1, 2 and 6 of the Bribery Act 2010 (BA 2010). It...

High-risk third countries tracker

High-risk third countries tracker

This Practice Note lists high-risk third countries identified by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), HM Treasury and the European Commission as...

Precedents

Modern slavery: contract clauses

1DefinitionsModern Slavery Policy•means the Customer's anti-slavery and human trafficking policy as set out in Schedule [insert] as updated by the...
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9th Nov
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Practice notes

AML and counter-terrorist financing—source of funds

Source of funds and wealth was a key focus of the SRA’s Preventing Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism thematic review, published in March...
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9th Nov
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Practice notes

Introduction to retained EU law

This Practice Note provides an introduction to retained EU law, which is an entirely new legal concept introduced to UK domestic law in preparation...
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9th Nov
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Precedents

Standard contractual clauses—set II—controller to controller (Model Clauses)

DRAFTING FOR BREXIT: For the latest information on the impact of Brexit on the drafting, negotiation and enforceability of this Precedent, see...
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9th Nov
Precedents

Anti-bribery and corruption for law firms—post-training assessment questions

How to use this testThese questions are designed to test your understanding after your attendance at our training on avoiding bribery and...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Compliance officer for legal practice—COLP—title and duties 2011 [Archived]

The compliance officer for legal practice (COLP) sits at the heart of the firm's regulatory arrangements. This does not mean that the firm and its...
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9th Nov

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Practice notes

Diversity monitoring and data protection—law firms

You must monitor, report (to the SRA) and, where appropriate, publish data regarding the diversity of your workforce. The SRA is prescriptive about...
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13th Apr
Precedents

Diversity monitoring questionnaire—introductory wording

Why are we collecting diversity data?We collect data on the diversity of our workforce for several reasons:•it is good practice to monitor the...
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13th Apr
Precedents

Training materials—equality and diversity

This presentation has been designed as an aid to train your staff on your Equality and diversity policy.The training materials are customisable.This...
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13th Apr
Practice notes

Outsourcing and data protection

This Practice Note primarily addresses the UK data protection laws.On 31 January 2020, the UK ceased to be a member of the EU and EEA. Given the...
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Produced in partnership with Marina Paul 12th Apr
Practice notes

Assessing human rights impacts

This Practice Note contains guidance on assessing the risk of your organisation causing or contributing to an adverse human rights impact. Human...
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9th Apr
Practice notes

Identifying internationally recognised human rights

The UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPs) require businesses to respect ‘internationally recognised human rights’. This Practice...
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9th Apr
Practice notes

What business needs to know about human rights

It is increasingly acknowledged that human rights are not just a concern for nation states and international organisations. Business organisations...
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9th Apr
Practice notes

The UN Global Compact and human rights

The UN Global Compact (UNGC) is a voluntary initiative set up in 2000 under the auspices of the United Nations. Its aim is to involve commercial and...
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9th Apr
Practice notes

The UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights—practical compliance

The UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPs) reflect a shift in approach to human rights issues. It has become acknowledged that...
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9th Apr
Practice notes

Limitation of liability in outsourcing

This Practice Note identifies and explains key considerations relevant to negotiating and drafting limitation of liability clauses in outsourcing...
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9th Apr
Practice notes

Outsourcing remedies—step-in rights, service credits, liquidated damages and termination

This Practice Note explains the remedies of step-in rights, service credits, liquidated damages and termination, as these apply to IT outsourcing...
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9th Apr
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Precedents

Diversity questionnaire—law firms

Why are we collecting diversity data?We collect data on the diversity of our workforce for several reasons:•it is good practice to monitor the...
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8th Apr
Practice notes

Diversity monitoring—regulatory requirements

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) requires you to collect, report and publish data regarding the diversity breakdown of your workforce on a...
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7th Apr
Practice notes

CSR, ESG and human rights reporting and initiatives

Sustainability toolkitWe have produced a sustainability toolkit, which aims to help practitioners advising businesses on sustainability, by bringing...
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7th Apr
Practice notes

Outsourcing—employment issues

IP COMPLETION DAY: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 marks the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period entered into following the UK’s...
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Produced in partnership with David Williams and James Champness of Kemp Little 7th Apr
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Practice notes

Lexcel practice management standard v6.1—Precedents content map

Lexcel is the Law Society's practice management standard. It is not compulsory, although Lexcel accreditation can be helpful for firms wishing to be...
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1st Apr
Precedents

Register of policies, plans and procedures

This Precedent acts as a central register of all your compliance, human resource and health and safety policies, plans...
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22nd Mar
Precedents

Policy—equality (short form)

1Policy statement1.1The Company is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all employees, workers and job applicants, and to eliminating...
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17th Mar
Practice notes

Gender pay gap reporting

Coronavirus (COVID-19): The enforcement of all gender pay gap reporting deadlines was suspended for the reporting year 2019/20, ie snapshot dates of...
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15th Mar
Practice notes

Understanding and improving gender and other pay gaps

Coronavirus (COVID-19): The enforcement of all gender pay gap reporting deadlines was suspended for the reporting year 2019–20 due to the coronavirus...
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15th Mar

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The Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) regime

What are OFTOs?Offshore Transmission Owners (OFTOs) are the owners of offshore transmission assets which connect offshore wind farms to the onshore electricity network. The transmission assets comprise everything between the offshore point of connection with the generating wind farm assets and the

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Commercial Property Standard Enquiries (CPSE)—environmental and health and safety enquiries

Commercial Property Standard Enquiries (CPSEs) are industry standard pre-contract enquiries used in commercial property transactions. CPSEs are endorsed by the British Property Federation and are free to use. The CPSEs include specific environmental enquiries at enquiry 15 and there are several

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Third party rights—the common law doctrine of privity of contract

This Practice Note discusses the common law doctrine of privity of contract; the equitable and statutory exceptions to it; how the doctrine affects enforcing a contract against a third party and what happens when, notwithstanding the lack of privity, a contract has an indirect effect on a third

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Notice of acting

Case number [insert number][In the principal registryORIn the [insert court location] FAMILY court]Sitting at [insert place]Notice of actingBetween[insert petitioner name]Petitionerand[insert respondent name]RespondentTake notice that we [insert name of firm] have been appointed to act as the