Our new Practice Compliance forecast (as at 20 August 2024) is now live. This month we report on the SRA’s AML and sanctions data collection exercise and when new failure to prevent fraud guidance is likely to be issued.

Our new Practice Compliance forecast (as at 20 May 2025) is now live. This month we report on items including (1) HMT's planned package of changes to the Money Laundering Regulations; (2) OPBAS's planned targeted review of SARs; (3) developments in the Crime and Policing Bill expanding corporate criminal liability; and (4) the SRA's new draft business plan and budget consultation for 2025-26.

Our new Practice Compliance forecast (as at 20 November 2024) is now live. This month we report on items including: (1) publication of the long-awaited government guidance on the failure to prevent fraud offence; (2) consultation by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on proposed changes to FATF Standards and updates to grey listing criteria by FATF to increase focus on risk; (3) Transparency proposals and future Scheme Rules changes by the Legal Ombudsman (LeO), and (4) SRA consultation on the publication of regulatory decisions, updates to financial penalty regime and client money in legal services.

Our new Practice Compliance forecast (as at 21 January 2025) is now live. This month we report on items including: (1) draft guidance by the ICO on the use of storage and access technologies and how to disclose information safely; (2) the initiation of a consultation on proposals to tackle the threat of ransomware; (3) the first reading of a Private Members’ Bill to establish an independent Office of the Whistleblower to protect whistleblowers and whistleblowing, and (4) statements by the ICO on expectations of several pieces of guidance to be published during 2025.

Our new Practice Compliance forecast (as at 23 July 2024) is now live. This month we report on: (1) three new Bills announced in the King’s Speech on 17 July 2024: the Digital Information and Smart Data Bill, the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, and the Equality (Race and Disability) Bill), (2) an update on the FCA consultation relating to the treatment of PEPs, (3) the outcome of the SRA consultation on its draft business plan and budget, and (4) the conclusion of the SRA consultation on changes to enable it to regulate CILEX members.

Our new Practice Compliance forecast (as at 24 September 2024) is now live. This month we report on: (1) The Law Society’s investigation into the impact of World Uyghur Congress v National Crime Agency on solicitors, law firms and clients; (2) the new consultation from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on the data protection fee regime; (3) the reform of the AML supervisory regime; (4) updates to the ICO consultation on the regulation of Artificial Intelligence; and (5) confirmation that the new Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation will be up and arunning in October 2024.

Our new Practice Compliance forecast (as at 25 November 2025) is now live. This month we report on items including (1) HMT’s consultation response on the reform of the AML/CTF Supervision Regime, (2) SRA’s review of sanctions risk and controls, (3) updates to HMRC’s AML supervision fees, and (4) ICO’s new consultation on data protection enforcement procedural guidance.

Employment analysis: The President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), the Honourable Mrs Justice Jennifer Eady DBE, has issued a new EAT Practice Direction providing an update to the current rules on practice and procedure in the EAT. The new Practice Direction, which contains additional guidance on the use of the MyHMCTS portal, amends and replaces the current 2023 Practice Direction and will apply to appeals commenced after 1 February 2025. The Practice Direction will be brought into force alongside the amendments made to the EAT Rules by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2024.

The Senior President of Tribunals has issued a new Practice Direction for the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal, which came into force on 1 November 2024. This analysis looks at what has changed and what does this mean for immigration advisers.

The Lexis+®UK Financial Services team has published a new Practice Note providing high-level information on divergence between key provisions of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (EU Market Abuse Regulation) and Retained Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (UK Market Abuse Regulation), and on the EU Listing Act proposals for the amendment of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, which will result in further divergence.

The LexisNexis Financial Services practical guidance team has published a new Practice Note outlining the key requirements of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (the Digital Operational Resilience Act or DORA) as well as Directive (EU) 2022/2556, which amends certain other directives as regards digital operational resilience for the financial sector.

The LexisNexis Restructuring & Insolvency practical guidance team has published a new Practice Note— ‘Altice France—LME deal debrief (hybrid drop down)’. This Practice Note looks at the key terms of the Liability Management Exercise (LME) conducted by Altice France in 2025.