This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest updates to the financial sanctions regime, news analyses on the Court of Appeal's judgment in World Uyghur Congress v NCA, the SRA update to its warning notice on use of NDAs and the new EU AI Act.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions updates, a news analysis on a UK lawyer who was struck off roll after a USA tax fraud conviction, an analysis on the US Foreign Extortion Prevention Act and its significance to UK lawyers, a report by Spotlight on Corruption on regulatory breaches by executives and details of an ICO warning to organisations on advertising cookie banners.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes updated UK sanctions guidance, including OFSI’s revised arbitration‑related FAQs and a new humanitarian General Licence for Myanmar. It also covers Spotlight on Corruption’s response to the government’s AML supervision reform proposals, alongside FATF’s latest analysis on AI‑related AML/CFT risks. Further highlights include renewed concerns over the UK’s stalled asset recovery regime, the European Commission’s decision to renew UK data adequacy rulings, and new regulatory developments from the Legal Ombudsman, CILEX and the Legal Services Board.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: OFSI’s Legal Services Threat Assessment, the OFSI annual review 2024, and updates to the UK strategic export control list. A significant financial crime alert is conveyed by the SFO’s launch of a £3m bribery investigation, and an important regulatory development is marked by the SRA authorising the first AI‐driven law firm to provide regulated legal services.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes amendments to Russian oil sanctions licences covering Sakhalin-2, an extended licence for winding down maritime insurance and reinsurance contracts, and new licences for transporting Russian LNG to Japan and South Korea. We also cover analysis of the government’s anti-money laundering and asset recovery strategy and updated HMRC guidance on Economic Crime Levy bands.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes the ICO's updated UK GDPR lawful basis guidance introducing a seventh lawful basis termed 'recognised legitimate interest', a CJEU ruling limiting abusive GDPR access requests in Brillen Rottler and updated government guidance on employer action plans to reduce the gender pay gap and provide menopause support.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, the corporate crime cases to watch in 2025 and other Practice Compliance updates.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes amendments to an OFSI General Licence on maritime mutual re-insurance wind down, joint EDPB and AMLA plans for guidance on AML information sharing and data protection, and analysis of fresh pressure on EU-US data transfers following a US Supreme Court ruling. We also cover new ICO guidance on using personal information to protect businesses from crime, the launch of the Cyber Resilience Pledge, and consultations from the DBT on workplace monitoring technologies and the SRA on first-tier complaint handling requirements.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, new Europol research concerning organised crime covered by the Law Society, analyses of the new Economic Crime Manifesto, and the ICO’s 2024 data protection fining guidance, and updates from the SRA.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes updated government guidance on AML information sharing under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, and the SRA's statement following the case of Julia Mazur & Ora v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP.

Having conducted a comprehensive search of our resources we have been unable to find a definition of ‘unrepresented’ for the purposes of Civil Procedure Rules (CPR), Practice Direction (PD) 23A. We note that CPR PD 23A, para 6.3 states: 'In this paragraph 'designated legal representative' means the applicant's legal representative (if any),

ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note is not maintained and is for background information purposes only. Further, some of the links may not direct you to the provisions as at the date the guidance in this Practice Note was published. For further information on previous and/or subsequent amendments to the CPR, see: CPR updates—overview and Procedure Rule Committee minutes—overview. This Practice Note sets out the changes to Practice Directions in the 98th Making Document dated 1 August 2018. The changes introduce a new Practice Direction—Practice Direction 51T—The County Court Legal Advisers Pilot Scheme—Final Charging Orders, which allows for legal advisors at the County Court Money Claims Centre to make unopposed final charging orders (a charge against a property or land to secure a judgment debt) in certain circumstances.