About Risk & Compliance
Lexis+ Risk & Compliance is an online practical guidance product for in-house legal and compliance teams dealing with the ever-increasing and ever-shifting burden of risk and compliance.
Risk management guides
Each guide identifies five key priorities for the area of risk, and gives a heads-up on why each is a priority area. The priority is explained in further detail, with a series of mini-checklists and action points.
Competition & antitrust law compliance
Having a clear understanding of the nature of competition law compliance and the associated risks/challenges for businesses is the first step to setting effective compliance arrangements. We help organisations with this.
GDPR compliance
Practical guidance tools, registers, training aids and other templates to help you comply with data protection law and manage privacy risks
Regulation
Helping in-house counsel, privacy and compliance professionals manage the regulatory burden. GDPR, BA, MLR and plenty more, we've got it covered.
Topics We Cover
Latest Risk & Compliance News
MLex: Lawyers representing John Ormerod (a British accountant who became the first UK-based national to be designated by the government over alleged...
MLex: A second draft of the EU’s voluntary code of practice on generative AI softens several transparency commitments under the EU AI Act, making some...
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has published a policy paper setting out the UK government’s cross-government approach to...
Corporate Crime analysis: The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has updated its guidance on financial sanctions enforcement and...
The European Commission has published the second draft of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content to support compliance with the...
Latest Risk & Compliance Practice Notes
You do not have to behave like a police officer, but you do have to remain alert to the warning signs of bribery and corruption and make the sort of...
This Practice Note explains, in simple terms, the key features of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). See also Precedent: Data...
Legal Professional Privilege (LPP) protects the confidentiality of written and oral communications between lawyers and clients. It entitles a party to...
This Practice Note is intended for in-house lawyers, including lawyers working in-house in law firms. It explains what legal professional privilege...
This Practice Note provides practical guidance on direct marketing, in particular how to comply with the United Kingdom General Data Protection...
Latest Risk & Compliance Precedents
1Policy statement1.1The Company is committed to achieving gender equality in our business and implementing interventions that will drive progress...
Stop press: The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Commencement No 6 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026, SI 2026/82 bring into...
1Project summaryProject informationDetailsProject name[Insert name]Project owner[Insert name]Project summary[Summarise the project, eg new CCTV system...
<section><section><p>This Precedent Register of superSAR requests and responses can be used to keep a record of your</p></section></section>
Decision-making process flowchartThis Decision-making process flowchart illustrates the nine key stages in a decision-making process and highlights...
Latest Risk & Compliance Q&As
Featured Risk & Compliance content
Can I charge a fee for dealing with a data subject access request?
How to plan and conduct an internal investigation
How to plan and conduct an internal investigationAn internal investigation is a legal process undertaken by an organisation (with or without outside...
Can a limited company make a subject access request? Can a director of a limited company ask for recordings of calls with us? If yes, what personal data must we provide?
Anti-bribery and corruption—post-training assessment answers
Anti-bribery and corruption—post-training assessment answersQuestionCorrect answer1. How many new offences does the Bribery Act 2010 create? (b)...
Who can certify identification documents (passports, driving licences, utility bills, etc)?
Money Laundering Regulations 2017—scope and application
Money Laundering Regulations 2017—scope and applicationThis Practice Note sets out the scope and application of the Money Laundering, Terrorist...
Money Laundering Regulations 2017—nominated officer
Money Laundering Regulations 2017—nominated officerThis Practice Note sets out when organisations must appoint a nominated officer (sometimes referred...
Sanctions regime—Russia
Sanctions regime—RussiaThe Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, SI 2019/855, made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018...
How to manage legal risk
How to manage legal riskIt is often said that running a business means taking risks and that the biggest risk an entrepreneur can take is not to think...
Contract management risk management guide
Contract management risk management guideWhy you need to manage this riskContract management is often seen by the business as an activity which is...
Competition law compliance—post-training assessment answers
Competition law compliance—post-training assessment answersQuestionCorrect answer1. Competition law protects business and consumers from...
SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs—for in-house lawyers
SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs—for in-house lawyersThis Practice Note provides guidance for in-house solicitors on the SRA Code of...
Anti-bribery and corruption—post-training assessment questions
Anti-bribery and corruption—post-training assessment questionsHow to use this testThese questions are designed to test your understanding after your...
How to create a legal risk register
How to create a legal risk registerThis Practice Note is intended for in-house lawyers. It explains how to create a legal risk register, a tool that...
Tipping-off and prejudicing an investigation
Tipping-off and prejudicing an investigationThere are several offences of tipping-off and prejudicing an investigation that apply to the regulated...
Confidentiality risk management guide
Confidentiality risk management guideWhy you need to manage this riskConfidential information is one of the most valuable assets of any business....
Records retention schedule
Records retention schedule1Introduction1.1This Record retention schedule accompanies and is incorporated into [insert organisation’s name]’s Records...
Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017—key information for businesses
Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017—key information for businessesThe Money...
Associated legal terms
Equity default swap
An investment that makes payment if the sponsor's share price falls eg to 70% of its initial value; sometimes relevant when exploring the use of contingent assets.
Full Function Joint Venture
Joint venture created, jointly controlled and owned by two or more parents, operationally autonomous, not established merely to take over one specific function from its parents, and established on a permanent basis or for a sufficiently long duration to bring about lasting changes to the structure of the undertakings involved.
To levy distress
To seize property from a debtor or a wrongdoer.
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