Clear filters

Employment Law in 2024 2024 is set to be a big year for UK employers. We are anticipating significant changes to employment law, affecting how people work, diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) and hiring and firing. In addition, the post-Brexit employment landscape is...
FCA Consumer Duty: Reflections and Projections in November 2023 Phase 1 Complete; Phase 2 to come! In this podcast, we reflect on the lessons learned from Phase 1 of consumer duty implementation, and the challenges that face firms for closed books ahead of 31 July 2024. This episode sets out a general market-wide...
Hybrid Working, where are we now? Three years on from the pandemic and one year on from our last podcast, what does hybrid working look like and are there any emerging trends? In this podcast, partners Phil Linnard and Jane Edwarde are joined by Martin Boyle (Head of Legal - Dispute...
A testing time for UK financial regulation The past 9 months have seen turbulence stemming from the Truss-Kwarteng mini budget, a UK government debt market intervention by the Bank of England and rising interest rates, against the backdrop of questions about the UK's ability to thrive outside the...
UK Hydrogen: Update on the Business Model for Low Carbon Hydrogen Production 2023 promises to be a significant year for low carbon hydrogen production in the UK with the first contracts supporting green and blue hydrogen production expected to be entered into from H2 2023. As a result, hydrogen producers, their investors and...
AI and Intellectual Property: A Whistle-stop Tour As AI adoption increases, and governments and regulators across the globe grapple with how best to regulate AI, Slaughter and May are producing a series of ‘Regulating AI’ thought pieces that will consider some of the legal issues that arise from...
Podcasts: Algorithms and Competition Law As AI adoption increases, and governments and regulators across the globe grapple with how best to regulate AI, we look at some of the legal issues organisations should consider when implementing AI solutions. In this podcast, Competition Partner, Jordan...
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): Assessing support for UK capture projects The UK government has thrown its weight behind CCS, aiming to capture and store 20-30 Mt of carbon emissions per year by 2030 from across the economy. However, the cost of installing and operating carbon capture equipment, together with the cost of...
UK Hydrogen: Key considerations for low carbon hydrogen production The UK government has doubled its ambitions for low carbon hydrogen and is now aiming for 10 GW of low carbon hydrogen capacity by 2030. However, revenue support for new build production projects is needed to make them viable, investable and bankable...
Office or remote: is hybrid working? Two years after lockdown was first imposed, most businesses now have increased flexibility about where and how their employees work. But what have we learnt about the hybrid model, and can this be taken forward as we move beyond COVID-19? In this podcast,...