3/30/2025 8:03:22 PM Modern Slavery Act 2015: Home Office Updates Statutory Guidance By Moira Thompson Oliver George Murray Natalie Goodman On 24 March, the Home Office published updated guidance (the Guidance) for companies producing modern slavery statements as required by...
3/27/2025 10:25:38 AM The ESG and DEI Discussion - from Brussels to Washington By George Murray In this podcast, Harry Hecht, Philippa O’Malley and Moira Thompson Oliver sit down with Michael Arnold, Partner at Cravath, Swaine &...
3/25/2025 10:37:58 AM SBTi Consults on Revised Corporate Net-Zero Standard: Greater Flexibility for Scope 3 Targets but Tight Control of Carbon Credits By Samantha Brady Helena Campbell The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a corporate climate action organisation that develops standards, tools and guidance which...
3/18/2025 3:30:16 PM The Employment Rights Bill: Seven Questions for Employers By Phil Linnard Philippa O'Malley David Rintoul Clare Fletcher Simon Clark +2 more... Show less The Employment Rights Bill (ERB) has been hailed by the Prime Minister as “introducing the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a...
3/6/2025 5:33:06 PM The Sustainability Omnibus - Streamlining Sustainability Regulation By Moira Thompson Oliver Samantha Brady Sabine Dittrich George Murray Helena Campbell Aaron Wu +3 more... Show less On 26 February 2025, the European Commission published its proposals for the first in a series of ‘omnibus’ packages, aimed at...
2/24/2025 10:34:31 AM The Commission Work Programme 2025: What’s Next for the Omnibus? By Sabine Dittrich Aaron Wu Helena Campbell Updates in relation to the EU’s proposed sustainability ‘omnibus’ package seem to be coming thick and fast, although distinguishing...
2/19/2025 11:40:51 AM Time to rethink the UK’s approach to modern slavery? Parliamentary inquiry into forced labour in international supply chains By Moira Thompson Oliver Daniel Whitham George Murray Mizan Rahman +1 more... Show less On 21 January, the UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (“the Joint Committee”) launched an inquiry into the UK’s legal and...
2/17/2025 5:34:17 PM In House Perspectives on Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence and Reporting By Moira Thompson Oliver George Murray In early February, the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association brought together lawyers and practitioners from all over the world...
2/4/2025 5:59:05 PM The Omnibus and the Compass: more details emerge of EU plans to simplify sustainability legislation By Harry Hecht Sabine Dittrich Moira Thompson Oliver George Murray +1 more... Show less On 29 January, the European Commission published an official communication on ‘A Competitiveness Compass for the EU’ (‘the Compass’)....
1/21/2025 4:33:40 PM FRC publishes a thematic review of mandatory climate-related financial disclosures by AIM-listed and large private companies By Samantha Brady Helena Campbell Today, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) (the independent regulator for auditors, accountants and actuaries in the UK) published a...
12/23/2024 2:37:33 PM UK Sustainability Reporting Likely to Align Materiality with International Standards Developed by the ISSB By Harry Hecht Samantha Brady George Murray Sustainability reporting in the UK, in the form of the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS), is still on track to align with...
12/20/2024 11:52:43 AM The Government’s Response to the House of Lords Modern Slavery Committee Report By Moira Thompson Oliver Helena Campbell Connie Day This week, the Government published its response to the House of Lords Select Committee’s (the Committee) report on the impact and...
12/18/2024 11:06:11 AM Looking ahead to the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024: the FRC publishes its annual Review of Corporate Governance Reporting By Katie Kershaw Daniel Whitham In November, the Financial Reporting Council (the “FRC”) (the independent regulator for auditors, accountants and actuaries in the UK,...
12/5/2024 3:52:02 PM The Sustainability ‘Omnibus’ - what is it, and what does it mean for companies? By George Murray Sabine Dittrich Moira Thompson Oliver The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen created a bit of a stir recently at an informal meeting of heads of state...
11/22/2024 3:10:33 PM EFRAG publishes draft transition plan guidance to support with reporting under the CSRD By David Hay Samantha Brady Sabine Dittrich Helena Campbell +1 more... Show less Earlier this month, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) – the body responsible for developing European Sustainability...
11/21/2024 5:37:05 PM Sustainability reporting in ESMA’s enforcement priorities for 2025 By David Hay Gabriel Forrest-Lim At the end of October, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) – the independent European Supervisory Authority responsible...