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Following agreement on the ‘stop-the-clock’ directive, which will delay the dates from which the EU’s flagship Corporate Sustainability...
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On 14 April 2025, the European Council formally adopted the “stop-the-clock” Directive.[1] This follows on from the European Parliament...
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On 24 March, the Home Office published updated guidance (the Guidance) for companies producing modern slavery statements as required by...
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In this podcast, Harry Hecht, Philippa O’Malley and Moira Thompson Oliver sit down with Michael Arnold, Partner at Cravath, Swaine &...
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The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a corporate climate action organisation that develops standards, tools and guidance which...
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The Employment Rights Bill (ERB) has been hailed by the Prime Minister as “introducing the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a...
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On 26 February 2025, the European Commission published its proposals for the first in a series of ‘omnibus’ packages, aimed at...
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Updates in relation to the EU’s proposed sustainability ‘omnibus’ package seem to be coming thick and fast, although distinguishing...
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On 21 January, the UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (“the Joint Committee”) launched an inquiry into the UK’s legal and...
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In early February, the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association brought together lawyers and practitioners from all over the world...
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On 29 January, the European Commission published an official communication on ‘A Competitiveness Compass for the EU’ (‘the Compass’)....
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Today, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) (the independent regulator for auditors, accountants and actuaries in the UK) published a...
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Sustainability reporting in the UK, in the form of the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS), is still on track to align with...
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This week, the Government published its response to the House of Lords Select Committee’s (the Committee) report on the impact and...
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In November, the Financial Reporting Council (the “FRC”) (the independent regulator for auditors, accountants and actuaries in the UK,...
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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...