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 Financial Services and Markets Bill, as introduced in May 2026, includes provisions that would reform aspects of the UK’s anti-money laundering...
Law360, London: On April 16 2026, the High Court in Aabar Holdings S.À.R.L. and others v Glencore plc and others [2026] EWHC 1328 (Comm) confirmed...
This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes the FCA’s findings from its review of firms’ sanctions systems and controls, the...
Spotlight on Corruption has published its submission to the Home Office's consultation on economic crime information sharing, which closed in May...
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has warned that companies which fail to self–report suspected economic crime face an increased risk of enforcement...
Latest Risk & Compliance Practice Notes
All websites should be accessible, especially by people with disabilities. Access to websites is governed by the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010) and the...
The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA 2018) sets out the UK’s framework for the implementation and enforcement of international...
This Practice Note is a horizon scanner tracking key future developments in the field of financial crime and sanctions compliance in England and...
This How-to-guide provides practical guidance on how to establish an independent audit function to audit your organisation’s compliance with the Money...
This How-to-guide provides practical guidance on how to design and manage group-level policies, controls and procedures under the Money Laundering,...
Latest Risk & Compliance Precedents
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We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we...
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Latest Risk & Compliance Q&As
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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
Incurred costs
Costs that have been incurred in the past. For the purposes of: —the costs budget, they are costs which are incurred up to or including the costs management conference (CPR 3.17) —variation of a costs budget, they are costs incurred up to the date of the variation (CPR 3.15A)
Period of Responsibility
The period from the date a Nuclear Site Licence is granted to the date: (a) the ONR provides written confirmation that the activities for which the licence was required have ceased and the site has reached the No Harm Threshold required for de-licensing, whether or not the Nuclear Site Licence has already been surrendered or revoked; or (b) when a new nuclear site licence in respect of the same site is granted.
Stop order
An order of the High Court whereby a judgment debtor is ordered not to take any of a series of specified steps in relation to securities or funds in court.
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