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Doing Business with the Government and the Impact of COVID-19

30th June 2020
Pam also discusses the challenges COVID-19 presents for government contractors and changes we should be on the lookout for. Why should a business consider doing business with the government?   The U.S. federal government is the number one purchaser in the world, purchasing all sorts of supplies and services, so providing products or services to […]
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 The Challenges Experts May Face When Undergoing Assessments from Home

30th June 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented challenge which has been the catalyst for the development of new modalities of delivering healthcare in order to maintain social distancing and minimising the potential spread of infection, especially in high risk specialities such as ophthalmology where there is close contact when the patient is examined. The Royal College […]
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Physician’s Potential Criminal Liability for Prescribing Medications

30th June 2020
In 2016, Dr Hsiu-Ying Tseng was convicted of second-degree murder for three patient drug overdose deaths, making Tseng the first doctor to be convicted of murder in the United States for overprescribing drugs.[1] In a study conducted by the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute (NAGTRI), the researchers gathered information regarding the 378 cases […]
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Is the Criminal Justice System Doing Enough to Tackle Racism?

29th June 2020
It has been three years since David Lammy published his Review indicating that the Criminal Justice System (CJS) is lagging behind other institutions in its duty to tackle systemic racism.
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LGBTQ+ in the IP Sector – Where Are We Now, Where Are We Going, and How Do We Get There?

29th June 2020
The legal sector in the UK has seen great advances in diversity and inclusion over the last couple of decades.  However, progress has not been equal in all areas, and the field of intellectual property law has been one of the slowest to come to embrace diversity and recognise the need for inclusion.
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COVID-19: Does an Employer’s Duty of Care Extend to Commuting to Work?

25th June 2020
This article covers how employers should deal with staff refusing to travel to work for fear of contracting Covid-19. 
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AML and UK Lawyers: Time to Root Out the Bad Apples?

23rd June 2020
The new draft business plan of the UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) says it will regularly visit ‘high risk’ law firms, and a random sample of others, to check their AML compliance.
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The UK Justice System: Is It Racist?

8th June 2020
With tensions rising in the US following the death of George Floyd and protests now occurring in the UK as well as all 50 states in America, we hear from Paula who discusses how racism is prevalent in the UK and how the legal sector is also yet to remove such prejudice from the justice system.
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Huawei CFO Denied Dismissal of Extradition to US

5th June 2020
As tensions ratchet up between the West and China over the coronavirus pandemic, disagreements over Huawei’s activities in the West have become increasingly fraught.
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How Digital Forensics Can Help Solve Legal Cases

29th May 2020
We speak to Chris Collier, a Senior Digital Forensics Analyst, who reveals more about the process of digital forensics and how his findings can benefit legal cases. How has digital forensics developed over the years and what importance does it play in legal cases now, in comparison to a decade ago, when the digital world […]
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