Category: Corporate & Commercial
Feb 2019
Brexit uncertainty having a knock-on effect to wider economy
During 2018, growth hit just 1.4% - down from 1.8% in 2017 and the slowest rate since 2012, said the Office for National Statistics. The figures are in line with forecasts of slower growth against a backdrop of Brexit uncertainty and a weaker global economy.
Feb 2019
Brexit: How are businesses faring
Whilst the jury is still out about how Britain-of-the-future will look after March 2019, but still, the headlines continue to tell us of companies that have been blighted by Brexit.
Jan 2019
Google's lesson is one we could all learn
The story about Google and its hefty fine for breach of GDPR is perhaps a reminder to all of us about the seriousness of data protection.
Nov 2018
How the Morrisons Data Breach case should put employers on their guard
GDPR seems to be the word of the year, but as many businesses still try to get to grips with it, the Court of Appeal have issued details surrounding a case of data protection. Is an employer responsible if an employee deliberately breaches a data protection law?
Sep 2018
GDPR four months on: What's changed?
The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May this year. It, together with the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), replaced existing laws in the UK relating to data protection and became an obligatory requirement across the whole of the European Union. Even though this had been bubbling away in the news for several months, there were concerns that businesses remained relatively in the dark about what they had to do. In the end, the majority of cases saw a last-minute scramble to implement the new regulation – and it appears to be still on-going.
