Last week the FCA issued three announcements concerning its approach to the digital future of financial services in the UK. Amongst these was the FCA’s AI Update, their response to the government’s recent AI consultation...more
A few months after the UK Government published a White Paper on its approach to artificial intelligence regulation and invited comments from stakeholders, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced the UK will host a global...more
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology published a white paper on 29 March 2023 titled "AI Regulation: A Pro-Innovation Approach", which sets out the UK Government’s proposals to regulate artificial...more
1 April 2023 sees the last step in the MEES phase 1 journey come to fruition – meaning that (with limited exceptions) you cannot continue to let sub-standard property (that has an EPC rating below an E) without registering an...more
The regulator would introduce a licensing system for clubs, increase scrutiny of directors and owners, and aim to equalise funding. The UK government has published a White Paper which outlines its plans to establish a...more
On 10 June 2022, the Law Commission published its long-awaited options paper on Corporate Criminal Liability (“the Paper”). The Paper discussed a “failure to prevent money laundering offence” (the “FTPML Offence”), but did...more
Last year, the UK Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published its 10- year National AI Strategy for the regulation and promotion of artificial intelligence (AI) in the UK (Report). DCMS seeks to build...more
On 20 May 2021, the government published its white paper for the railways in Britain after an 18-month delay due to the pandemic - ‘Great British Railways: The Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail’ (the Plan). The government...more
The Government has published its long-awaited White Paper on the reform of the UK’s audit, corporate reporting and corporate governance system including a package of measures aimed at improving the UK’s audit, corporate...more
Organisations face fines of up to 10% of annual global turnover or £18 million (whichever the greater) for failure to comply. On 15 December 2020, the UK government published its full response to the Online Harms White...more
The government published its Energy White Paper in December 2020, making a clear statement of its commitment to the 2050 Net Zero target and setting out a trajectory for meeting it. The proposals are wide-ranging, with...more
Last week the UK government published its Energy White Paper (White Paper) titled ‘Powering Our Net Zero Future’. The purpose of the White Paper is to follow up on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ‘Ten Point Plan for a Green...more
An early Christmas present in the form of the Government’s long awaited Energy White Paper “Powering our Net Zero Future” was finally gifted to us last week. We have digested the White Paper with our festive hats on and set...more
MHCLG published some of its proposals for planning reform in its ‘Planning for the Future’ statement on 12 March 2020, which largely builds on the Conservative Manifesto 2019 promises. However, more measures for reform are on...more
The new President of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen promised to put forward legislation “for a coordinated European approach on the human and ethical implications of artificial intelligence” within 100 days...more
Update confirms the introduction of an active “duty of care” and a dedicated regulator, as part of a comprehensive new online regulatory regime. Following a wave of commentary from industry, the social sector, and other...more
Details are trickling in on the tentative Brexit agreement reached between UK and EU negotiators this week, just 14 days ahead of the Halloween departure deadline. A massive sticking point here remains the British...more
Over a year following enactment of the U.S. “Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data” or CLOUD Act, significant questions remain unanswered about the law and its potential impact on global investigations involving cloud stored...more
How do you police the internet? That is the question that the government sought to answer with the launch of last month’s online harms white paper. The white paper, a cross-departmental collaboration between the home...more
Online content in the UK is to be regulated by a new internet regulator. A white paper consultation was published on 8 April 2019 by the UK government Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS). The proposals...more
UK publishes White Paper with hard-hitting regulatory proposals to tackle online harms. On 8 April 2019, the Home Office and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published an “Online Harms White Paper”,...more
Amongst the flurry of ministerial assignments issued on the last day of a rather turbulent political term, was the Government’s White Paper on national security investment controls and the accompanying Statement of Policy...more