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A dose of reality? Requiring employees to be vaccinated

A dose of reality? Requiring employees to be vaccinated

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Practice Compliance weekly highlights—21 January 2021

Practice Compliance weekly highlights—21 January 2021

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Law must change to go after companies allowing financial crime, MPs urge

Law must change to go after companies allowing financial crime, MPs urge

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BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: two new workplace guides and three guides updated

BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: two new workplace guides and three guides updated

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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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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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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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Data protection officer—law firms

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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15th Jan
Q&As

If an employer dismisses a data protection officer with less than two years’ service on the grounds that they were insufficiently expert and/or capable to do the job, what individual rights of redress would that officer have in respect of that dismissal? What enforcement action might the ICO take? How would a data protection officer dismissed in contravention of the GDPR bring a claim for compensation for that dismissal under the GDPR? Does the reference in Article 79(2) of the GDPR to ‘data subject’ in any way affect or limit the right to bring a claim for compensation under Article 82(1) of the GDPR?

Regulation (EU) 2016/679, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) itself describes issues pertaining to data protection officers (DPOs) at Articles...
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15th Jan
Precedents

Data protection—annual review

A: General informationDate of review[insert date]Person(s) conducting review[insert name and/or role]B: Review and findingsIs your Data protection...
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8th Jan
Q&As

If a multinational company with entities in a number of EU states has registered a data protection officer (DPO) with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), does it need to register a DPO in the other EU states where it has entities or is registration in one country sufficient?

Under Article 37 of the General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the GDPR), companies have to appoint a data protection officer...
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Precedents

Data protection officer—DPO—job description and role profile

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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22nd Dec
Precedents

Meeting minutes—appointment of a data protection officer

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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22nd Dec
Precedents

Message from CEO/Senior Member/Senior Partner on the appointment of a data protection officer

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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22nd Dec
Precedents

Data privacy manager—non-DPO—job description and role profile

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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22nd Dec
Precedents

Data protection board briefing—detailed

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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22nd Dec
Precedents

Memo to the board making recommendations in relation to appointing a DPO

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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22nd Dec
Precedents

External data protection officer (DPO) appointment terms—company to individual—pro-client

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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15th Dec

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