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This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes updates to OFSI’s enforcement guidance, an analysis on the impact of lifting of UK...
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STOP PRESS: This document is being updated to reflect implementation of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA 2025) which amends the UK GDPR and...
The SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs (Code for Solicitors) forms part of the SRA Standards and Regulations.The Code for Solicitors...
This Practice Note is intended for private sector commercial organisations in the UK. It provides practical guidance on how to handle data subject...
STOP PRESS: This document is being updated to reflect implementation of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA 2025) which amends the UK GDPR and...
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STOP PRESS: This document is being updated to reflect implementation of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA 2025) which amends the UK GDPR and...
STOP PRESS: This document is being updated to reflect implementation of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA 2025) which amends the UK GDPR and...
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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 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 investigationThere are several offences of tipping-off and prejudicing an investigation that apply to the regulated...
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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 businessesThe Money...
An agreement between two or more persons to commit an offence, or which necessarily involves committing an offence, or which falls within the ambit of “conspiracy to defraud” or “conspiracy to corrupt public morals/outrage public decency”.
Islamic jurisprudence.
An agreement between a landlord and a receivables financier in which the landlord agrees to waive its rights to exercise distraint over a client's assets to meet sums due to the landlord, usually unpaid rent.