Students at a number of universities across the country have had their essays flagged and shown to the police under the “prevent duty” as required by the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015.
HSBC is set to cut around 35,000 jobs after announcing a major slump in profits for 2019.
Barclays introduced technology to monitor employees’ work activity but axed it soon after.
Fairtrade’s She Deserves campaign aims to tackle the startling pay inequality faced by female cocoa farmers.
Monzo is looking to relaunch paid-for accounts in the first quarter of 2020, after a failed attempt in 2019, following complaints.
Pinsent Masons has followed the lead of several other City firms by scrapping its stringent, two-page dress code in favour of a more relaxed, one-line policy that requires lawyers to “dress appropriately for their job, schedule and stakeholders”.
Ofcom is to be given regulatory powers over the content posted on social media.
English football champions Manchester City have been banned from all European football competitions for two seasons for serious breaches of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules relating to sponsorship. The club has also been fined €30m.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has lost its legal challenge against the Australian Federal Police (AFP) over the police raids of its headquarters last June. These searches were in relation to reports which contained allegations of unlawful killings by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.
The former Attorney-General (AG) Geoffrey Cox has speculated future judges of the Supreme Court would have to be interviewed before a joint committee of MPs and Lords.