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• Campylobacter project finds labs can do better

  According to a report, only one laboratory got a top score as part of a Campylobacter testing exercise, suggesting there is room for improvement. In 2018, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) commissioned the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to provide an external quality assessment (EQA) scheme for the detection and enumeration of Campylobacter from a...

• ISS Discusses New UK Strategy for Sustainable Finance

  The U.K. Government published its updated Green Finance Strategy in March 2023. Comprehensive in nature, the Strategy articulates the U.K.’s ambition to become a world leader in the realm of sustainable finance and to retain the country’s status as a preeminent financial services hub. According to U.K. policymakers, regulation will play an important role in...

• UK Business Immigration: Significant Hike in Visa Salary Thresholds

  The Home Secretary has announced major changes to the UK visa system from Spring 2024 including the following: Further details will be revealed when the government publishes amended Immigration Rules and policy guidance but this may not happen until March 2024. In the meantime, UK employers will need to factor these increases into future recruitment...

• Eight Imminent Key Changes to UK Employment Law

  From as soon as 1 January 2024, the UK Government is implementing a wide range of new employment law that will affect organizations with UK operations. Below is a handy table summarizing key changes and start dates. Some critical issues for employers include: (i) stronger workplace protections against sexual harassment; (ii) increased employee flexible working...

• FCA publishes notice of decision to require publication of 3-month sterling LIBOR until end-March 2024

  On 1 December 2023, the FCA published a notice of first decision, dated 15 November 2023, which has been issued to ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (IBA) under Article 21(3) of the UK Benchmarks Regulation. The notice sets out the FCA’s decision to compel IBA to continue publishing 3-month sterling LIBOR (the LIBOR Version) for a...

• Tackling Online Abuse In Sport: The UK’s Online Safety Act 2023

  After years in the making, the Online Safety Act (the “OSA”) has come into force after receiving Royal Assent on 26 October 2023 (as discussed in our blog here). Amidst the proliferation of social media use, there has been a worrying increase in the levels of abuse that players, athletes, officials, managers, coaches and other...

• UK Sustainability Disclosure Framework – FCA publishes final rules on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and investment labels

  On 28 November 2023, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority published its “Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (“SDR“) and investment labels” policy statement (PS23/16) (the “Policy Statement”). The Policy Statement introduces a set of new rules aimed at tackling greenwashing, including investment product sustainability labels and restrictions on how terms like “ESG”, “green” and “sustainable” can be used....

• (UK) Director Administration Appointments: Does the Company Really Need a Moratorium?

  With increased public awareness that a notice of intention to appoint administrators (NOI) has been filed, we are finding that third parties – usually the company’s creditors, suppliers and employees – are disrupting the administration process in a way that can cause significant risks to a company’s ability to continue trading, the overall value of...

• UK Sustainability Disclosure Framework – FCA publishes final rules on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and investment labels

  On 28 November 2023, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA“) published its “Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (“SDR“) and investment labels” policy statement (PS23/16) (the “Policy Statement“). The Policy Statement introduces a set of new rules aimed at tackling greenwashing, including investment product sustainability labels and restrictions on how terms like “ESG”, “green” and “sustainable” can be...

• House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee publishes report on the financial sector and the UK’s net zero transition

  On 29 November 2023, the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee published its report on the financial sector and the UK’s net zero transition. The report follows an inquiry, launched by the Committee in May 2022 to examine the role of financial institutions in meeting the UK Government’s climate and environment targets. In this report,...

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• Prince Charles Commissions Report on Complementary Medicine Savings

  Prince Charles has commissioned a report into how complementary medicine could help the UK National Health Service save money. The Prince of Wales asked a former chief economics adviser to Barclays Bank to see where money could be saved by avoiding traditional drug treatments. Leaked draft...

• UK law blogs popular marketing tool for solicitors and barristers

  Law blogs aren’t unique to the States. UK law blogs are becoming a valuable business and marketing tool for English solicitors and barristers reports the Law Gazette, the website for the official magazine of the Law Society. …[M]ore solicitors now consider blogging as a route to business and...

• UK has its Senator Stevens too

  Looks as if our legislature’s knowledge of the Internet has nothing on the UK’s government. The Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott in appearing to display his ignorance of the internet when he spoke about allegations about his private life observed in a BBC radio interview with John Humphreys ‘…I ...

• Lawyers Must Blog

  Law “firms need to enter the ‘blogosphere’ if they want to compete in the 21st century.” More and more law firms are developing blogs, dealing with everything from family law to law affecting the deaf. “UK Solicitor Justin Patten, who has run Human Law in Station Road, Ware, for three years, has...

• UK Web 2.0 conference for lawyers

  The UK’s Society for Computers and the Law is holding a Web 2.0 Conference for Lawyers June 22 and 23 St Anne’s College Oxford. In keeping with the collaborative philosophy that spawned the likes of Wikipedia and which, at a surface level at least, underpins social software innovations, the SCL...

• Nuclear secrets safety sealed

  Professor James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron, had sealed the envelope containing the instructions, many decades ago. Chadwick’s prescience is celebrated by the UK’s Royal Society. So is his modesty and foresight: The sealed envelopes were accompanied by a letter from Professor Chadwick....

• UK’s Financial Services Authority emphasizes bank’s stability

  The UK’s Financial Services Authority has stepped in to reassure bank depositors so as to stem a Depression era-like run on the bank. Although the “queue” is a time-honored British tradition, queueing up to withdraw bank deposits is not. Now in a press release, the UK financial services regulator...

• Samsung UK Vacuum Cleaner Incorporates Antimicrobial Nano-Coating.

  Samsung’s new Silencio SC9540 bagless vacuum cleaner sold in the UK apparently uses a nanosilver costing on its dust bin, pre-motor filter, and post-motor filter to kill bacteria accumulated during the cleaning process. Samsung claims the air emitted from the Silencio is bacteria and odor free. No...

• Unlicensed practice of osteopathy

  A new UK case shows the dangers of unlicensed practice of medicine. In the U.S., it is unlawful to practice ‘medicine’ without a license. Practicing medicine includes not only such broadly defined terms as diagnosis, treatment, operation, prescription, and cure, but also holding one’s self out as...

• Children TV food ad restrictions not working, UK consumer body claims

  This post was written by Carolyn E. Pepper and Tina Sany-Davies. OFCOM, the UK media regulator, published rules regarding advertising food and drink products to children. A consumer watchdog in the UK, Which?, has said that the rules, which aim to curb advertising foods assessed as high in fat,...