July/August 2016 #31 – Page 2

Regulation: Safe passage

John Doherty and Richard Reeve-Young explore the vexed question of legal professional privilege in the context of increasing regulation ‘Practitioners must carefully consider the identity of the individuals employed by their client company in order to ensure that advice given falls within the remit of legal advice privilege (LAP) and attracts the necessary protection from …

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IT: Better safe than sorry

In the second part of an examination of security risks in outsourcing, Dr Sam De Silva highlights the issues to be considered when drafting contracts ‘Customers should seek specialist advice to ensure that the security standard(s) referred to in their contract are relevant and appropriate for their outsourcing (and should not just rely on the …

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Compliance: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Crispin Rapinet and Khushaal Ved examine the here and now of enhanced UK efforts to make anti-bribery and corruption compliance the norm ‘Compliance policies may appear as a headache, but the consequences of failing to comply can lead to multimillion-pound fines, criminal convictions, a plummeting share price and potentially irreversible reputational damage.’Anti-bribery and corruption efforts …

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