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
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has launched a consultation seeking views on proposals to support the fair, transparent and responsible...
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have launched the Cyber Resilience Pledge...
MLex: A US Supreme Court ruling allowing the president to fire executive officers at will has injected fresh uncertainty into the EU-US Data Privacy...
The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has amended General Licence INT/2026/8893924, introducing a monthly reporting requirement for...
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published guidance on using personal information to protect businesses from crime, explaining how data...
Latest Risk & Compliance Practice Notes
Consideration of electronic data interchange (EDI) arrangements, blockchain, smart contracts or sector-specific laws or regulations, including those...
The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA 2018) created a UK specific framework for the implementation and enforcement of sanctions in...
In recent years, there have been growing calls for the government to legislate further on economic crime in order to discourage criminals from...
Updated December 2025IntroductionThe United Arab Emirates (UAE) is strategically located at the crossroads of major Western and Eastern economies. It...
Updated in December 2025IntroductionIndia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflow in the...
Latest Risk & Compliance Precedents
The purpose of this questionnaire is to identify potential business risks. Please spend no more than [insert time, eg 30 minutes] completing this...
1Introduction1.1The Company is committed to the highest standards of information security and treats confidentiality and data security extremely...
Date of reviewOutcome of reviewCorrective actionResponsibilityTimescales[Date][Insert...
You must read this policy because it gives important information about:•the Company’s rules on the use of internet, email, telephone and other...
[Insert name of organisation]Data protection privacy notice (employment)This notice explains what personal data (information) we hold about you, how...
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
Bankruptcy (Insolvency)
The term used to describe the insolvency of an individual under English insolvency law. A person can only be made bankrupt by a court order and is governed by the Insolvency Act 1986, Pt IX.
Filing system
A ‘filing system’ is defined under each GDPR regime as meaning: ‘…any structured set of data'>personal data which are accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralised, decentralised or dispersed on a functional or geographical basis;’
Grievous bodily harm
Malicious wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm with or without a weapon is an offence.
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