August 2023 / 16 posts found
Three Ways CISOs Can Lower The Risk Of Personal Litigation
Michael Nicosia, COO and co-founder at Salt Security. We live in a litigious world, and the technology industry is no different. Almost as soon as Meta released Threads, Twitter threatened a lawsuit. Meanwhile, an ongoing antitrust battleground is the norm for the most prominent global technology companies, including Google, Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft, amid M&A activities. Other technology and VC companies have also spent their time in the courtroom as a result of charges related to gender and racial discrimination. However, there’s a new litigation trend in town with disturbing ramifications. Several high-profile CISO/CSO lawsuits have hit the news recently, […]
PM insists alcohol duty changes will benefit businesses despite tax hikes
T he Prime Minister has insisted businesses and consumers will benefit from alcohol duty changes on Tuesday, despite tax increases affecting some types of drink. First set out by then-chancellor Rishi Sunak in 2021, the new system aims to encourage drinkers to cut back by taxing all alcohol based on its strength, rather than the previous categories of wine, beer, spirits, and ciders. Mr Sunak described the overhaul as “the most radical simplification of alcohol duties for over 140 years”, enabled by Britain’s exit from the EU. In March’s Budget, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt also announced that the freeze to alcohol […]
Government plans ‘strengthened’ out-of-court disposals | News
The existing framework of out of court disposals, used when it is not in the public interest to go to court, has been described as ‘unwieldy’ by the government which is now proposing a ‘simplified, strengthened two-tier framework’. An open consultation into the diversionary and community cautions: draft code of practice was opened this week. Justice minister Damian Hinds said the code once finalised will provide ‘operational guidance on the use, administration and scrutiny of the new cautions’. It is expected that police, crown prosecutors and other authorised bodies will use the code when considering sanctioning an offence out of […]
Court delays leave tens of thousands of children in limbo after parents split
Tens of thousands of children in England and Wales have been left in limbo by delays in the family court that have meant many waiting over a year for their future to be resolved. The Law Society said the system was in crisis, after data showed that children removed from their parents were having to wait an average of 46 weeks to get a final decision on where they would live. In a quarter of areas, the wait in family proceedings in public law cases was double the recommended government target of 26 weeks, with the longest delays in east […]