The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published its new five-year strategy for 2024-2029 (the Strategy), setting out its ambitious aspirations to become a “pre-eminent specialist, innovative and collaborative agency which...more
7/23/2024
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K&L Gates partners Dominic Fleeton, Dylan G. Moses, and David C. Lindsay compare and contrast the approaches to regulating and enforcing the management of psychosocial risks and hazards in Australia, the United Kingdom, and...more
Significant Expansion to Corporate Criminal Liability Becomes Law in the United Kingdom - On 26 October 2023, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (the Act) became law. Under the Act, corporations will become...more
11/21/2023
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Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulation 2021 - On 26 April 2021, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced the United Kingdom’s first sanctions under the new Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulation 2021 (the...more
Hydrogen—the smallest molecule, but one that holds the potential to be an energy superhero and play a significant role in reducing carbon emissions and slowing climate change.
The H2 Handbook provides a comprehensive...more
4/13/2021
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BACKGROUND - Over the Easter weekend, it was reported by a number of media outlets that an 860-page report, apparently commissioned by senior Labour Party officials, had been leaked and was circulating widely online. The...more
Customer due diligence is a familiar phrase for many. But at a time when money laundering is estimated to represent between 2 - 5% of GDP globally, customer due diligence is set to change and the UK Government is at the...more
Introduction - A recent decision by Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) (“FCC”) has renewed important questions with respect to legal privilege, its varied conceptual and practical scopes and...more
On 1 February 2016 the Sentencing Council introduced new Health and Safety Sentencing Guidelines representing the biggest shake up to health and safety since the 1970s. Violation of the Guidelines means that corporates now...more
Since the new Health and Safety Sentencing Guidelines (the “Guidelines”) were implemented in February 2016, a series of headline-making fines have been handed out by the Health and Safety Executive (the “HSE”).
Balfour...more
Large companies will need to reassess the adequacy of their health and safety controls in light of new large scale fines for workplace accidents.
On 6 May 2016 Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions Limited (“Balfour Beatty”)...more
Accidents do sometimes happen, even in well-run factories and construction sites.
Where there has been an accident in the U.K., companies face prosecution by the Health & Safety Executive (“HSE”) in the criminal courts...more
The construction industry is big business. A recent study has predicted that global construction output will increase by more than 70%, to US$15 trillion per year worldwide, by 2025. The dominant sources of this growth will...more