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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
5 September 2017
SRA Warning on Offensive Communications
On 24th August the SRA issued a warning to the profession about offensive communications.
4 September 2017
Doctors beware – your obligations to maintain adequate cover are not to be taken lightly
Irvine v General Medical Council
[2017] EWCA Civ 1296
31 August 2017
More flexible regulation of solicitors: opportunity or threat?
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has published its long-awaited response to its consultation on the future framework of the regulation of solicitors: ‘Looking to the future: flexibility and public protection’
24 August 2017
#Brexit: Lords examine financial regulation and supervision
The House of Lords EU Financial Affairs sub-committee has launched an inquiry into the future of financial regulation and supervision following the UK’s departure from the EU.
15 August 2017
Criminal consequences for accessing medical records without a business purpose
Doctors, dentists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and other healthcare professionals tempted to look at the medical records of members of their family or friends without a ‘business purpose’ should read with interest the latest warning issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), namely that “NHS employees .. unlawfully accessing patient records [are committing] an offence”. The warning is equally applicable to those working in private healthcare settings and to other professionals who have access to personal data (broadly defined as being data that relates to a living individual who can be identified from it).
