The UK is currently woefully unprepared for national-scale disasters and needs a new 'civil resilience force' to bolster preparedness, according to Resilience First. Educating citizens and fulfilling new compliance requirements for business could also be considered in a forthcoming UK Government’s Integrated Review, it suggests.

The topic of SOIs was brought to the fore once again when Libyan asylum-seeker Khairi Saadallah killed 3 civilians and injured a further 3 in a bladed weapon attack in Reading in June.

The Chartered Governance Institute has today published updated guidance on shareholder meetings under the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020, to reflect the temporary flexibility given as part of COVID-19-related allowances.

Drafted by a working party comprising professionals from the Company Law Committee of the City of London Law Society and the CGI, with the support of GC100, the Investment Association and the Quoted Companies Alliance, this latest guidance supercedes that published in March.

Flood Re is pushing for a ‘build back better’ approach after reporting gross claims costs of £160m for 2019/20. The payouts for 2019/20 are ten times higher than the previous year.

It is three weeks since the UK Government announced quarantine measures, but promised to look into the viability of international "travel corridors" with countries with low rates of infection, and with which quarantine rules may be relaxed.

The cost of a third-party risk incident is thought to have risen to as much as £783m per incident, according to figures released today by Deloitte, which says the impact on share price could be as much as 10%. More than half of companies in the study estimate the cost of a supply chain failure, data privacy breach or disruption to IT services to be somewhere between £391m and £783m, or even more. This represents a marked increase since 2015, when large multinational businesses estimated the cost of a third party failure at between £1.6m and £40m.