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March 26, 2024
ICO Data Protection Fining Guidance
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March 26, 2024
Letter from the Justice Committee to the Lord Chancellor on The regulation of the legal professions
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March 22, 2024
Responding to a cyber incident – a guide for CEOs – National Cyber Security Centre
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March 21, 2024
ABA Formal Opinion 510, Avoiding the Imputation of a Conflict of Interest When a Law Firm is Adverse to One of its Lawyer’s Prospective Clients
This ethics opinion addresses the issue of whether a law firm can act for a client when confidential information has been provided by another prospective client who does not proceed to instruct the firm.
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March 20, 2024
Irwin Mitchell Trust Corporation v PW & Anor [2024] EWCOP 16
A trust corporation appointed as property and affairs deputy and which was owned by solicitors had an own interest conflict when it appointed an asset management company in the same group to manage the investments.
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March 12, 2024
FATF Updated Guidance on Beneficial Ownership and Transparency of Legal Arrangements
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March 11, 2024
HM Treasury consultation on improving the effectiveness of the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017
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March 8, 2024
SRA draft guidance for in-house solicitors
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March 6, 2024
Law Society guidance: The UK sanctions regime
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March 6, 2024
The Principal Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024
These Regulations make provision about the registrar’s powers to change the address registered as the principal office of company directors, secretaries and persons with significant control (“relevant persons”), where the registrar is not satisfied that the address is in fact their principal office. The Regulations allow the registrar to act on the registrar’s own motion or on application.
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