The Archive (2020-2023)

Dec 06 2023 66 ep. 20 mins 15

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Welcome to The Archive, a collection of past episodes of insightful conversations and thought-provoking discussions. Explore a diverse array of topics, involving expert insights on industry trends and the risks and opportunities we have faced over the previous years.

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Employment Law in 2024

Dec 06 2023 19 mins

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 starting to take shape, with significant changes taking effect on 1 January 2024. There is much for employers to look out for, to ensur

FCA Consumer Duty: Reflections and Projections in November 2023

Nov 23 2023 24 mins

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 overview; we will separately be launching follow up discussions deep diving into specific issues that consumer duty poses for banking

Hybrid Working, where are we now?

Jul 27 2023 24 mins

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 Resolution and Employment, Ocado Group) to discuss what has changed over the last year, the current global picture and the wider impac

A testing time for UK financial regulation

Jun 22 2023 30 mins

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 EU. Charles Randell, Jan Putnis, Nick Bonsall, Dr. Sabine Dittrich and our host Selmin Hakki discuss how the post-crisis financia

UK Hydrogen: Update on the Business Model for Low Carbon Hydrogen Production

Jan 30 2023 26 mins

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 lenders will be examining the UK Government’s latest update to the hydrogen production business model with interest. In this podcas

AI and Intellectual Property: A Whistle-stop Tour

Sep 23 2022 31 mins

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 developing and using AI solutions. The latest in this series is a podcast in which IP Partner Laura Houston and PSL Richard Barker di

Algorithms and Competition Law

Jul 21 2022 21 mins

In this podcast, Competition Partner, Jordan Ellison and Senior PSL Annalisa Tosdevin discuss the competition law considerations arising from the use of algorithms. They consider some of the concerns around algorithms, the extent to which these concerns are really a competition law issue and how competition regulators might get involved. They finish with some practical takeaways fo

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): Assessing support for UK capture projects

May 20 2022 22 mins

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 transporting and storing that carbon once captured, is currently prohibitively expensive and therefore requires government support. Wit

UK Hydrogen: Key considerations for low carbon hydrogen production

May 20 2022 20 mins

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. Oliver Moir and Kathryn Emmett discuss the draft heads of terms for low carbon hydrogen support in the UK including key issues for h

Office or remote: is hybrid working?

Mar 21 2022 16 mins

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, partners Jane Edwarde and Phil Linnard discuss how hybrid working has evolved over the past two years, and what challenges and o