About Risk & Compliance
Lexis+ Risk & Compliance is an online practical guidance product for in-house legal and compliance teams dealing with the ever-increasing and ever-shifting burden of risk and compliance.
Risk management guides
Each guide identifies five key priorities for the area of risk, and gives a heads-up on why each is a priority area. The priority is explained in further detail, with a series of mini-checklists and action points.
Competition & antitrust law compliance
Having a clear understanding of the nature of competition law compliance and the associated risks/challenges for businesses is the first step to setting effective compliance arrangements. We help organisations with this.
GDPR compliance
Practical guidance tools, registers, training aids and other templates to help you comply with data protection law and manage privacy risks
Regulation
Helping in-house counsel, privacy and compliance professionals manage the regulatory burden. GDPR, BA, MLR and plenty more, we've got it covered.
Topics We Cover
Latest Risk & Compliance News
This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: analysis of the Data (Use and Access) Bill of 2024 and of data breaches and...
Law360, London: The head of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) called for the UK to pay whistleblowers in economic crime cases, admitting on 10 December...
The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on 28 individuals and businesses involved in a...
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published its eighth Annual Review, covering the period from 1 September 2023 to 31 August 2024. The...
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has announced the appointment of Baroness Margaret Hodge as the UK's new Anti-Corruption...
Latest Risk & Compliance Practice Notes
New and updated content 2024—Risk & ComplianceThis Practice Note tells you, on a month-by-month basis, whether we have made substantive amendments to...
Financial sanctions compliance—examples of good (and poor) practiceThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has provided some examples of good practice...
Digital advertising channels—introductionFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 24 May 2024, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill received Royal...
How to manage the risks of artificial intelligence in your businessThis Practice Note is intended for general private-sector commercial organisations...
The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)This Practice Note provides a summary of the UK GDPR regime. For a higher-level introduction to UK...
Latest Risk & Compliance Precedents
Financial sanctions organisation-wide risk assessment1Introduction1.1We have performed an organisation-wide risk assessment of the areas where we are...
Financial sanctions internal watch listThis document contains [insert organisation’s name]’s internal watch list, which supplements data from...
Guide to financial sanctions for staffWhat are sanctions?Sanctions are non-permanent international restrictions or prohibitions aimed at:•encouraging...
Financial sanctions policy1IntroductionThis financial sanctions policy sets out the procedures we have developed to comply with financial sanctions...
Sanctions breach report registerThis Precedent Sanctions breach report register is designed to help you keep a record of suspected sanction breaches...
Latest Risk & Compliance Q&As
Featured Risk & Compliance content
How to manage legal risk
How to manage legal riskIt is often said that running a business means taking risks and that the biggest risk an entrepreneur can take is not to think...
Can a limited company make a subject access request? Can a director of a limited company ask for recordings of calls with us? If yes, what personal data must we provide?
Can I charge a fee for dealing with a data subject access request?
Tipping-off and prejudicing an investigation
Tipping-off and prejudicing an investigationThere are several offences of tipping-off and prejudicing an investigation that apply to the regulated...
Dawn raid—who can raid my organisation and why?
Dawn raid—who can raid my organisation and why?The UK Government has legislated to permit a number of UK authorities to obtain search warrants to...
Contract management risk management guide
Contract management risk management guideWhy you need to manage this riskContract management is often seen by the business as an activity which is...
Confidentiality risk management guide
Confidentiality risk management guideWhy you need to manage this riskConfidential information is one of the most valuable assets of any business....
Money Laundering Regulations 2017—simplified due diligence
Money Laundering Regulations 2017—simplified due diligenceYou may apply simplified customer due diligence (SDD) measures in relation to particular...
SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs—for in-house lawyers
SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs—for in-house lawyersThis Practice Note provides guidance for in-house solicitors on the SRA Code of...
Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017—key information for businesses
Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017—key information for businessesThe Money...
Dealing with the National Crime Agency
Dealing with the National Crime AgencyThis Practice Note provides high-level guidance on dealing with the National Crime Agency. It sets out the role,...
Public statement on data breach
Public statement on data breachStatement by [insert name of organisation] concerning a significant [cyber attack OR data protection breach] on [insert...
Money Laundering Regulations 2017—nominated officer
Money Laundering Regulations 2017—nominated officerThis Practice Note sets out when organisations must appoint a nominated officer (sometimes referred...
Dealing with the Serious Fraud Office
Dealing with the Serious Fraud OfficeSFO—role and powersRoleThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is the authority in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...
How to conduct a legitimate interest assessment (LIA)
How to conduct a legitimate interest assessment (LIA)The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) permits processing of personal data where...
Refusing a data subject request—what is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’?
If a multinational company with entities in a number of EU states has registered a data protection officer (DPO) with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), does it need to register a DPO in the other EU states where it has entities or is registration in one country sufficient?
Dealing with dawn raids by the Information Commissioner’s Office
Dealing with dawn raids by the Information Commissioner’s OfficeThis document reflects the UK GDPR regime. References and links to the GDPR refer to...
Associated legal terms
Overview and scrutiny committee
A committee established under the Local Government Act 2000, s 21 to advise on policy formulation, hold the executive to account in relation to specific matters and review areas of council activity which are not the responsibility of the executive or matters of wider local concern, and as such are the main way by which the executive is held to account in public for the discharge of executive functions.
RTGS
Real time gross settlement (RTGS) is an infrastructure operated by the Bank of England that holds accounts for banks, building societies and other institutions. The balances in these accounts can be used to move money in real time between these account holders.
Unfair dismissal
The concept that an employer has not dismissed the employee for a potentially fair reason or under a fair procedure and as such the dismissal was unfair.
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