This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes sanctions against Iranian authorities for human rights violations, a warning notice from the SRA on 'no win, no fee' arrangements in high-volume consumer claims and the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA 2025) (Commencement No 6 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026, SI 2026/82, which bring the majority of the DUAA 2025’s data protection reforms into force from 5 February 2026.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: analysis of outcomes from the cross-government review of sanctions implementation and enforcement, new OFSI video guidance on financial sanctions, the SRA’s consultation on proposed amendments to its first-tier complaints rules, and the Legal Services Board’s enforcement action against the SRA following the Axiom Ince collapse.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes OFSI’s publication of its framework for prioritising licence applications, OPBAS’ latest supervisory findings identifying continuing weaknesses in enforcement among professional body supervisors and HM Treasury’s guidance on the use of certified digital identities under the MLRs 2017. We also have analysis of the Court of Appeal’s ruling in DSG v ICO on the scope of controllers’ security obligations, new international guidance on foreign bribery risk indicators and the Court of Appeal hearing in the Mazur case.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, a Spotlight on Corruption report on the use of aid to tackle international corruption, analysis of how AI is being used to facilitate financial crime and how to combat it, and a DSIT consultation on changing data protection fees payable to the ICO.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes new guidance on banknote sanctions relating to Belarus and Russia, the ICO’s findings on the feasibility of a statutory data protection sandbox and its new risk-based approach to triaging complaints. We also cover the launch of the advisory AI Growth Lab sandbox for legal services, the introduction of EU AI Act transparency requirements for AI-generated content, and the Legal Ombudsman’s final model complaints resolution procedure. In addition, we report on the SRA’s application to increase compensation fund contributions for 2026–27.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest on financial sanctions, the FATF’s annual report, news of the ICO’s launch of a direct marketing advice generator, the SRA’s survey on first-tier complaints handling procedures for law firms, and other practice compliance updates.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: an update to guidance on trade sanctions licences, the expiration of the OFSI General Licence related to Russian oil majors, the European Parliament’s work on tensions between the EU AI Act and the EU GDPR regarding algorithmic discrimination, a FATF consultation on updated guidance, a News Analysis on the anticipated UK national AML risk assessment, economic crime provisions in the Crime and Policing Bill, and an inquiry into forced labour in UK supply chains.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes the latest sanctions updates; findings from the Home Office Economic Crime Survey 2024; the SRA’s 2024–25 AML annual report and its 2025–26 business plan; the LSB’s post-Mazur review scope; and approval of stand-alone litigation rights for Chartered Legal Executives.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: new OFSI guidance and enforcement action relating to Russian sanctions breaches, the SRA’s updated anti-money laundering sectoral risk assessment, and new ICO guidance on preventing data breaches through secure document disclosure. Additional updates cover solicitor engagement with children in youth courts, LeO's enhanced remedies guidance for complaint resolution and a consultation on increasing case fees. Developments in AI compliance include the Commission and AI Board’s recognition of the GPAI Code of Practice and the European Parliament’s call for enhanced traceability in generative AI systems.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, an update to the SRA’s sectoral risk assessment for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, analysis of the government’s response to the Law Commission’s report on reform of the SARs regime and news of forthcoming guidance on UK data protection fines.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes the EU adopting an Anti-Corruption Directive, analysis of Dentons’ failure to prevent a rerun of the SRA's AML case, the latest Cyber Security Breaches Survey and the ICO’s final guidance on storage and access technologies, which clarifies rules on cookies and tracking.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, the publication of the Anti-Money Laundering Training thematic review and the Anti-Money Laundering annual report 2023-24 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), the adoption of a report on the first review of EU-US Data Privacy Framework by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), an announcement of a consultation by the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC) on the draft 2025/26 business plan and budget for the Legal Ombudsman, and confirmation by the Home Office that the ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence is scheduled to take effect on 1 September 2025.