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Private prosecutions – A route to justice for the charity sector
Sophie Tang
12 November 2024
Time to comply: failure to prevent fraud is a reality
The government has published official guidance on reasonable fraud prevention procedures, setting the deadline of 1 September 2025 for large organisations to make sure they are compliant
8 November 2024
Navigating Modern Slavery Risks: Lessons from Recent Cases
Recent reports have underscored the difficulties businesses face in identifying and preventing modern slavery within their operations.
31 October 2024
Health and Safety / Corporate Manslaughter – Q2 & Q3 2024
This health, safety law and corporate manslaughter update provides a summary of news stories in the period April 2024 – September 2024.
25 September 2024
Fashion brands face further greenwashing scrutiny
Greenwashing continues to be a significant focus for the UK’s competition regulator as its scrutiny of the fashion sector continues.
In January 2022, only a few months after launching the Green Claims Code, the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) opened a review of environmental claims in the fashion sector. In July 2022, the CMA opened an investigation into three specific fashion brands (ASOS, Boohoo and George at Asda).
19 August 2024
Motor finance: FCA drives towards formal redress scheme
The FCA is conducting a review into whether motor finance customers were overcharged as a result of the widespread use of discretionary commission arrangements in the motor finance industry. It had expected to set out its next steps in light of this review in September 2024. However, it has announced that it will not now do so until May 2025.
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