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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
20 August 2021
The Financial Reporting Council’s Audit Enforcement Procedure is changing – your chance to have your say
The Financial Reporting Council (“FRC”) recently announced that it is intending to amend the Audit Enforcement Procedure (“AEP”) and is consulting on the proposed amendments.
With the consultation open until 7 October 2021, now is the chance for statutory auditors, audit firms, regulatory bodies and professional associations to have a say in what audit enforcement will look like over the coming years.
5 August 2021
The FRC’s Annual Enforcement Review 2021: key trends and future concerns
The Financial Reporting Council (the ‘FRC’) has published its Annual Enforcement Review 2021 (the ‘review’). We highlight the key trends in relation to the Enforcement Division’s activities during the past year, observations in relation to the FRC’s adoption of constructive engagement as a means of early resolution of matters, trends regarding sanctions imposed by the FRC, and priority areas of concern identified by the FRC, which are likely to impact its enforcement work over the coming year.
30 July 2021
MPs call on Government to regulate non-surgical cosmetic treatments
There have long been calls for better oversight and regulation of the beauty industry. As an example, ahead of the General Dental Council (‘GDC’) taking appropriate action leading to the Court confirming that teeth whitening amounts to the ‘practice of dentistry’ under section 37 of the Dentists Act 1984, these services were regularly being provided by untrained practitioners on the high street, often leading to injury to the public.
30 July 2021
A new frontier in the boundary between professional and private life – solicitors’ undertakings
One of the hottest topics in solicitor regulation is how far the SRA’s regulatory powers reach beyond a solicitor’s professional life. This topic has caused heated debate when dealing with allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate posts on social media. One would expect that the world of solicitors’ undertakings would not be part of this debate. However, the recent decision of the Supreme Court suggests that a true solicitors’ undertaking arises in relatively narrow circumstances and as such many undertakings given by solicitors fall outside their professional work and should not engage the SRA Codes of Conduct.
30 July 2021
Doing business in the EU
The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement will greatly affect the way we do business
with the EU. Jessica Clay and Ilda de Sousa look at the impact on solicitors.
