The devastating Turkish earthquakes have highlighted the fragility of many supply chains and the associated business interruption risks accompanying such vulnerability. Ironically, Turkey was a country to which various businesses and major fashion brands moved supply arrangements post-pandemic. It was also the EU’s second largest source of textile and apparel imports.1 Therein lies the issue. In 2021, a University of […]
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 25/08/2023
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 11/08/2023
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 Coming into force on 6th April 2008, the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 sought to broaden the law on corporate manslaughter in the UK, and to make prosecution of organisations easier when a corporate management failing caused a fatality. Before the Act, a corporation could only be convicted of manslaughter […]
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 21/07/2023
As news headlines highlight, NHS waiting lists are worryingly long. Around 400,000 people are waiting over a year to receive their medical treatment. At the same time, it’s likely employees will suffer some form of physical or mental illness that requires treatment. One in two of us will get cancer in our lifetime. 16% of adults experience moderate to severe […]
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 07/07/2023
Are you aware of the 8 big risks to company directors and owners? Have you considered these: disqualification; criminal prosecution; custodial sentences; personal bankruptcy; loss of job; loss of profit; reputational damage; financial hardship; and family impacts? Any of these could emerge from a situation in which, while acting as a director or manager of a company, you fall foul of one of more than 90 UK regulators1, or are […]