After more than 2 years since the Bribery Act 2010 came into force, the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) first prosecution under the Act finally began on Monday of this week.

International Tubular Services (ITS), an Aberdeen-based engineering firm specialising in providing equipment to the North Sea oil sector, is the second company in Scotland that has avoided a corporate criminal prosecution under the Bribery Act 2010.

Transparency International, an anti-corruption organisation has released results of a survey in relation to corruption and bribery which spans over 107 countries and questioned 114,000 people, of which 27% admitted to having paid a bribe in the last 12 months.

Our 14 October e-update, "Automatic For The People: The Impact For Employers Of Auto-Enrolment Provisions", highlighted the impending requirements for UK employers to automatically enrol workers into a qualifying pension scheme.

The EAT outlined that a multi-factorial approach should adopted to determine whether the individual is "working" by being present.

Following our recent update on The Pensions Regulator's compliance and enforcement work on auto-enrolment, it has published some wider findings on the impact of the regime.

A recent Freedom of Information request has resulted in The Pensions Regulator disclosing some eye-opening figures regarding its auto-enrolment compliance regime.

The Court of Appeal has now dismissed Unison's latest appeal against its judicial review application challenging the legality of these fees.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change has announced that the large biomass tariff has been reduced by almost two thirds, from 2.7 pence per kW to 1 pence per kW.

We hope you weren't spending too much of your holiday time getting used to the Contract for Difference (CfD) that was published by DECC in August last year, because just in time for the Christmas and New Year break, DECC published a major update to the CfD – all 394 pages of it.

A Pre-Nuptial Agreement is an agreement made by a couple before they enter into a marriage or civil partnership.

Further to our e-update of 17 November - PFI Reform Announced For England & Wales, the Treasury has published the Call for Evidence on the Reform of the Private Finance Initiative.

HM Treasury has now released another addendum to the SoPC4 refinancing provisions which further amend the refinancing provisions of SoPC4 "in the light of the current state of the financing market".

On 19 January, the Scottish Government published the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016.

The Registry Trust, a not-for-profit company which operates the Register of Judgments and collates information on a range of court procedure, recently published figures indicating that around 1,000 less judgments were issued in respect of Scottish businesses in 2012.

In January 2010, we told you that Lord Emslie in the Court of Session had rejected a challenge from a group of leading insurance companies in relation to the Damages (Asbestos-related Conditions)(Scotland) Act 2009 ("the 2009 Act").

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has welcomed the recent proposals put forward by the European Commission for a new EU data protection system to be created, in order to meet the needs of the increasingly advanced digital age

In a fresh warning to be careful what you post online, this week saw two individuals plead guilty to sending threatening tweets to feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez. Isabella Sorley, 23 and John Nimmo, 25, from Newcastle and South Shields respectively, pled guilty in Westminster Magistrates Court to sending messages of a menacing character by a public electronic communications network, contrary to the Communications Act 2003.

We recently issued an e-update regarding the construction opportunities presented by the new MoD Framework Agreements. In addition to the Frameworks, as part of its wider Next Generation Estate Contracts (NGEC) programme, the MoD has announced a single contract for the provision of military housing and related services.

In our e-update of 20 October 2010, we reported on the decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of Prudential plc and Another v Special Commissioner of Income Tax in which the court decided that legal professional privilege ("LPP") only attached to advice given by lawyers, not to tax law advice given by accountants.