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Shutterstock The UK Government is considering whether to introduce something along the lines of SOX. Regardless of where we end up following the current consultation process, it will almost certainly not be the end of the debate on internal control. More than twenty years have passed since the corporate collapse of Enron. The response of the then US Government led to the introduction of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2002 (SOX). One of the key features of this was to require Chief Executives and Chief Financial Officers of US public companies to provide attestations on the effectiveness of a company...

The Hawaiʻi State Legislature has defined invasive species as the “single greatest threat” to our economy, natural environment and health of our communities. Once invasive insects and plants become established and widespread, there are very few tools that can effectively limit the unwanted impacts of those pests and weeds at a large scale. One way to combat invasive species is biological control, or biocontrol for short, the science of controlling a pest or weed by using another organism. However, there are misconceptions about the process. When people in Hawaiʻi think of biocontrol the...

How should the legal profession navigate a post-COVID-19 world? ABA group has recommendations   Images from Shutterstock.com. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the ABA initiated one of the largest national surveys of its members, seeking to understand both how they had been affected and how they expected their practice to evolve in the future. Practicing Law in the Pandemic and Moving Forward: Results and Best Practices from a Nationwide Survey of the Legal Profession, published Monday by the Coordinating Group on Practice Forward, is based on input from more than 4,200 members who responded to th...

Joining forces to develop a research agenda on intersections of violence against children and violence against women Format Aník Gevers, Elizabeth Dartnall, Alessandra Guedes, and Claudia García-Moreno (8 April 2021) There is growing global recognition of the intersections between violence against women and violence against children. Unfortunately, there is insufficient interaction between these fields and evidence on how interventions should respond is limited. It is vital to identify key knowledge gaps in order to build evidence to address both forms of violence, through prevention and r...

BLACKBURN with Darwen Council's chief executive Denise Park has taken over as chair of the body co-ordinating Lancashire's public service response to the coronavirus pandemic as it moves from 'emergency' status into 'recovery'. She replaces her county council counterpart in charge of the Lancashire Resilience Forum (LRF) which is made up of representatives from including the emergency services, local authorities and the NHS. The switch was announced as it formally moved from its emergency response to a recovery phase as lockdown restrictions ease across the county, Ms Ridgwell said: "Th...