Practice Notes: Information management and security—regulatory requirements—law firms and Information security—data protection compliance set out your...
Current legal positionAt present, the result of the UK referendum on 23 June 2016 has had no effect on UK law or on the legal relationship between the...
Failing to account properly for Value Added Tax (VAT) may be a criminal offence. Under section 72(1) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994, if any person is...
This response deals with the question whether a solicitor can apply under section 73 of the Solicitors Act 1974 (SA 1974) to obtain a charging order...
On 1 April 2013 many of the provisions of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO 2012) came into force. The effects of...
The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 (CCR 2013), SI 2013/3134 came into force on 13 June 2014....
The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the GDPR) applies in all EU Member States from 25 May 2018. Note that in answering this question...
As a general principle, legal advice from a solicitor to their client is subject to legal advice privilege. For such privilege to attach, the advice...
The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (MLR 2019), SI 2019/1511 which implement the provisions of the Fifth Money...
Personal data that is subject to a duty of client confidentiality or contained within communications that are considered to be legally privileged may...
Practice Note: Processing personal data—lawful processing explains that under the general data protection regulation (GDPR), there are six potentially...