Regulatory

Environment Agency to issue £250 million civil penalties to polluting water companies

7th October 2022
Environmental Protection, News, News & Insights, Regulatory, Richard Reichman, Tom McNeill
Following the Environment Secretary’s announcement at the Conservative Party Conference this week that he will bring forward proposals for the Environment Agency (EA) to have the power to issue significantly higher civil penalties of up to £250 million to water companies that pollute the environment, BCL’s Richard Reichman and Tom McNeill analyse the wider implications for this proposal.

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Richard Reichman and Tom McNeill to deliver Lexology Webinar on Defending regulatory investigations and prosecutions

12th September 2022
News, News & Insights, Regulatory, Richard Reichman, Tom McNeill
BCL’s Richard Reichman and Tom McNeill with 2 Bedford Row’s Barristers Eleanor Sanderson and Shauna Ritchie will be delivering a webinar in partnership with Lexology, 10th November, 05:00 – 06:00 PM BST, titled ”Defending regulatory investigations and prosecutions.”

Register for this webinar here through the Lexology website.

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Online safety: the encryption dilemma – trade-offs

18th August 2022
Data Protection, Insights, Julian Hayes, News & Insights, Regulatory, Surveillance and Interception
From e-commerce and video-conferencing to messaging friends and colleagues, we take the encryption, and thus the security, of our digital communications for granted. However, while it ensures our privacy, it is also exploited by criminals to evade detection, for example those plotting terrorist atrocities or exchanging child sexual exploitation and abuse material (CSEA). The dilemma – whether to maintain privacy or tackle crime facilitated online – underlies the opposing and often stridently expressed views about encryption. As messaging platforms roll-out end-to-end encryption (E2EE), where not even service providers can decipher messages sent over their systems, law enforcement agencies have sought to preserve their covert ability to observe our communications. The UK’s latest proposals, in amendments to the government’s flagship Online Safety Bill, have aroused fierce industry and privacy group opposition. The ongoing difficulty in resolving the privacy versus safety conundrum in part arises from a failure to level with the public about the trade-offs involved.

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Michael Drury and Tom McNeill write for Lexology’s Getting The Deal Through

9th August 2022
Corporate Internal Investigations, Insights, Michael Drury, News & Insights, Regulatory, Tom McNeill
BCL’s Michael Drury and Tom McNeill provide a comprehensive guide to the agencies responsible for civil and criminal law enforcement exploring the techniques and the requirements that must be met before a government can commence an investigation, in the England & Wales chapter of Lexology Getting The Deal Through – Government Investigations.

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John Binns, Anoushka Warlow and Umar Azmeh to deliver Lexology Webinar on The UK’s Sanctions Regime: Navigating an Ever-Moving Horizon

3rd August 2022
Anoushka Warlow, John Binns, News, News & Insights, Oliver Schneider-Sikorsky, Regulatory, Sanctions and Export Controls
BCL’s John Binns, Anoushka Warlow and Oliver Schneider-Sikorsky will be delivering a webinar in partnership with Lexology, 12th October, 03:00 – 04:00 PM BST, titled ”The United Kingdom’s sanctions regime: navigating an ever-moving horizon”.

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