Royal Assent was granted to the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill on 26 July 2007. Organisations will need to review their procedures and systems to ensure they do not fall foul of the new offence created by the Act once it comes into force.

We have today published a guide to the Bribery Act 2010 which addresses the key questions our clients have been asking and which we hope you will find useful.

In a suddenly arranged Parliamentary announcement, the Government has said that it is to press ahead with giving shareholders in listed companies extra powers.

In a recent meeting, the UKBA agreed a concession to the Resident Labour Market Test confirming that a job advert may refer to the available salary as 'competitive' rather than having to show an exact salary or even a salary range.

Ofwat has published its responses to the Independent Steering Group’s report into the conduct of the 2004 Ofwat periodic review.

In May 2009, the UK's Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) confirmed the Government's plans to install smart meters in all households by 2020 and launched a public consultation on smart metering for electricity and gas in Britain (the Consultation).

On 17 February 2011, HM Treasury published their second major consultation paper on the new regulatory regime for financial institutions - ‘a new approach to financial regulation: building a stronger system.’

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) has today published a consultation paper including draft guidelines on remuneration.

The FSA has said that due to CEBS taking longer than expected to publish its final remuneration guidelines (which are now not expected until 11 or 12 December) there will be a knock-on effect on the publication of the revised Remuneration Code.

The Financial Services Bill was introduced to Parliament on 26 January 2012 and has now been published.

The new EU Food Information Regulation 1169/2011 allows for the continuation of voluntary front of pack ("FoP") labelling.

The Government has published in draft the Community Infrastructure Levy (Amendment) Regulations 2012.

Amongst the various announcements made by Gordon Brown yesterday, he confirmed that the proposed Planning Gain Supplement legislation was provisional only at this stage

The government has announced that the second of two frameworks recently set aside by the courts will not be retendered (for our Law-Now on the judgment).

The tracker is a guide to the progress of Bills going through the UK Parliament that affect commercial organisations. It also lists some Statutory Instruments.

On 2 March 2012, WIDP (Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme) published a document for consultation that offers guidance to local authorities that are currently undertaking the procurement of, or that are already managing, residual waste PFI / PPP contracts.

We are writing to update you on the Test Achats case, which might be of interest to you and your firm.

On Friday (28 May 2010) Ofcom published a draft code of practice which is intended to implement initial legislative measures aimed at reducing online copyright infringement.

Registration of .XXX top-level domains, specifically for adult-oriented websites, will be launched on 7 September 2011.

The UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) have undertaken a review of their spectrum pricing policy and methodology, covering fees based on administered incentive pricing (AIP) and administrative fee based cost recovery.