2024 DG Legal Monthly Newsletters
Each month we provide our Retainer clients with a highly rated compliance bulletin covering what they need to know and what action they must take. Below we provide short summaries of our compliance bulletins as monthly newsletters.
This month's newsletter covers:
Compliance & Management
- Applications to remain on the Roll
- Opportunity to comment on new internal investigations guidance
Data Protection
- Funded Cyber Essentials Plus for legal aid providers
- New ICO-approved data protection accreditation for legal service providers
Data Protection
- AML Sectoral Risk Assessment updated
- High risk countries updated
- Survey on threats to UK sanctions compliance
- General licence for payment of monies owed to a designated person
Legal Aid
- Additional Civil Contract Tender
- 2022 Crime Contract changes
This month's newsletter covers:
Compliance & Management
- End to allowance for video-witnessing of wills
- Consultation on new Employment Tribunal fees
- Approval to restrict fees in financial mis-selling claims
Data Protection
- Consultation on draft guidance for keeping employment records
- Consultation on draft guidance for data protection considerations when recruiting
AML and Financial Crime
- Further sanctions compliance guidance
- New differentiation between domestic and non-domestic PEPs
- Source for list of high risk countries amended
- New exemption to requirement to submit DAML SARs
Legal Aid
- Further Civil Contract Tender
- Consultation on increase to criminal legal aid fees
- Review of inactive civil cases
This month's newsletter covers:
Compliance & Management
- LeO good costs service guidance
- Further SRA fixed penalties issued
- Update on client protection concerns
- Further work required to improve diversity of legal profession
Data Protection
- New online DSAR service
- Obligation to report cyber incidents
Legal Aid
- Call for evidence in Review of Civil Legal Aid
- Recruitment for LAA Review Panel Member
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