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In this issue: Proceeds of crime Sentencing Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Consumer protection and cartels Cybercrime and data protection offences Environmental offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Insolvency offences and Companies Act offences Local authority prosecutions Money laundering Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Proceeds of crime Fresh magistrates’ court rules on proceedings under POCA 2002 and ATCSA 2001 re cryptoassets A suite of updated magistrates’ court rules comes into effect on 7 November 2024 to assist proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA 2002) and the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (ATCSA 2001) in the context of cryptoassets. They include SI 2024/1040, enabling non-conviction-based applications to convert cryptoassets to money and to detain, freeze and forfeit the resulting converted sums in proceeds of...

In this issue: Cross border criminal investigations Criminal procedure and evidence Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Consumer protection and cartels Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Food safety and hygiene offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Money laundering Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Cross border criminal investigations Ex-Goldman Sachs banker loses bribery extradition dispute A former Goldman Sachs employee has failed in his bid to block extradition to the US over alleged payments to Ghanaian officials, after a London court found on 7 June 2024 that the suspected offences were sufficiently tied to America to be tried there. See News Analysis: Ex-Goldman Sachs banker loses bribery extradition dispute. Criminal procedure and evidence Starmer could crack judicial crisis, former CPS chiefs say Keir Starmer’s strong...

In this issue: Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Consumer protection Contracts Data protection International Supply chain LexTalk®Commercial: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q&As Advertising, marketing and sponsorship ASA Ruling—25 June 2025 Three objections were lodged with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about statements on the website of Bodystreet Franchise (UK) Ltd, a fitness studio promoting Electro Muscle Stimulation (EMS) training. The ASA upheld all three challenges. See: LNB News 25/06/2025 44. CMA proposes strategic market status designation for Google's search services The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened a consultation on designating Google with strategic market status for general search and search advertising under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. Proposed interventions include compulsory choice screens for search providers, fair ranking obligations, enhanced publisher controls, and data portability measures. The scope would cover Google’s...

This Practice Note outlines how in-house lawyers can collaborate with other business functions to secure adherence to regulatory requirements... What regulations need to be complied with and who is responsible for compliance programmes? Every organisation faces sector‑specific rules and broad, cross‑cutting obligations, including: data protection health and safety competition product safety financial crime environmental obligations employment consumer protection advertising and marketing sanctions/export controls reporting/tax In a regulated sector, a visible compliance function is to be expected, yet it is uncommon for a single department to cover every regulatory strand. Where the core business is not regulated, compliance can become fragmented: HR may take charge of health and safety, while another HR lead may oversee ethics (anti‑bribery). An environment team might drive environmental compliance but leave gaps, for example around product packaging and disposal. Data privacy may sit with a dedicated team or be handled by Legal. The legal team will typically take...

This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (SBEEA 2015) obtained Royal Assent on 26 March 2015, delivering a package of reforms and statutory clarifications designed to keep the UK recognised worldwide as a dependable, fair environment for commerce while creating fresh scope for small firms to innovate and compete. The Act introduced a range of company and insolvency measures to underpin a robust regulatory framework for those responsible for administering insolvencies. Within this Practice Note we address the provisions relevant to trustees in bankruptcy, located in SBEEA 2015, section 133 and Schedule 10. These provisions took effect on 6 April 2017 under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Commencement No 6 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2016, SI 2016/1020. SBEEA 2015 is supported by Explanatory Notes (prepared by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills—now the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy), in conjunction with HM Treasury, HMRC, UK Export Finance, the Cabinet Office,...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is no longer updated. It is provided for background information only. Introduction Despite its title, the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (SBEEA 2015) has general effect across UK companies, not just small and medium-sized enterprises. While the Act chiefly concerns corporate matters and company administration, certain elements may influence financing transactions and warrant attention from finance practitioners. These include: the abolition of bearer shares powers enabling the override of prohibitions on invoice assignment modifications to the powers of the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) adjustments to administrators’ and liquidators’ powers with implications for insolvency and restructuring practice streamlining of public procurement processes changes to company administration The SBEEA 2015 received Royal Assent on 26 March 2015 and is being brought into force in stages. For the timetable indicating when specific provisions commence, see Practice Note: The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act—company law reforms [Archived]. Bearer...