| 1 | Bribery Act 2010: toolkit A toolkit to assist with Bribery Act 2010 compliance. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 2 | Guarantees and indemnities This practice note examines legal and drafting issues relating to guarantees and indemnities where the obligations of a third party are guaranteed and/or indemnified. This practice note considers the legal distinctions between primary obligations (indemnities, performance guarantees, performance bonds) and secondary obligations (guarantees). It provides an overview of relevant contractual issues relating to guarantees and indemnities (the statute of frauds, capacity) as well as legal issues (undue influence, duress, role of directors). It also provides links to our more detailed content on performance bonds, payment guarantees, comfort letters and our standard form guarantees and indemnities. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 3 | Social media toolkit (UK) A toolkit of resources relating to use of social media, based on law applicable in the UK. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 4 | Bribery Act 2010 A practice note about the Bribery Act 2010, which received Royal Assent in April 2010 and came into force on 1 July 2011. The background to the Act is described in Practice note, Bribery: law reform. PLC's materials on the Bribery Act are set out in Bribery Act 2010: toolkit. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 5 | Bribery Act 2010: corporate criminal liability This note considers how criminal liability for offences under the Bribery Act 2010 may attach to companies. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 6 | Bribery Act 2010: corporate hospitality, gifts and expenses This note looks at how promotional expenses, such as corporate hospitality and gifts, may be dealt with under the Bribery Act 2010. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 7 | Bribery Act 2010: enforcement: prosecutorial discretion This note explains what principles the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) must apply when making decisions about how to deal with cases of suspected criminal activity. In particular, the note examines the various guidelines the SFO must apply, particularly with regard to the Bribery Act 2010. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 8 | Bribery Act 2010: facilitation payments This note looks at facilitation payments, examining in particular what they are, why the lack of an exemption in the Bribery Act has been controversial, how the SFO plans to enforce the Bribery Act in relation to them and what can be done to prevent them being made. Information is also given on the position the OECD and other countries have taken towards facilitation payments. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 9 | Business interruption: pandemics and other civil emergencies A practice note giving organisations an overview of some of the legal and practical issues arising from the threat of disruption by pandemic influenza and other civil emergencies. Practical Law is grateful to Alexis Roberts, a partner in the Insurance & Reinsurance Group of Pinsent Masons LLP, for his assistance with aspects of this note. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 10 | Execution of deeds and documents Overview of the key legal requirements relating to the execution of deeds and documents under the laws of England and Wales. It reflects the law on execution from 1 October 2009. For details of the law governing execution of deeds and documents before 1 October 2009, see Practice note, Execution of deeds and documents: pre-1 October 2009. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 11 | Trading disclosures This note covers the information that must be displayed or given by a UK company under the Companies Act 2006 (2006 Act) and the Insolvency Act 1986 (as amended) (1986 Act): At specified locations. In documents and communications. At the request of those they deal with in the course of business. It includes details of what an individual or partnership should disclose and the additional disclosures required of a charitable company. This note does not cover information that must be supplied to the Registrar of Companies. | Practice notes | Maintained |