20 Dec, 2023 Norwich Pharmacal Relief: expansion of conditions to include "proper purpose" By Nikolas Ireland Madeleine Brown Isabelle Proctor Earlier this month, in Green v CT Group Holdings Ltd [2023] EWHC 3168 (Comm), the High Court held that Norwich Pharmacal Relief will only...
19 Dec, 2023 Diverging paths: EU-niversal and UK due diligence requirements for securitisations By Richard Fletcher Ryan Moore Jack Lewis The European Commission published a report on the functioning of the EU securitisation regulation on 10 October 2022 (the SECR Report)...
19 Dec, 2023 COP28: renewed climate commitments follow first global stocktake By Rachel Richardson Praveen Gopalan Finn Waldron The 2023 United Nations Climate Conference of Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)...
18 Dec, 2023 A drop in the ocean: Tribunal gives green light to small collective settlement in car shipping class action By Simon Day Emma Radcliffe Rachel Carter Last week, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (the Tribunal) published the first judgment approving a collective settlement since the UK...
12 Dec, 2023 UK announces new sanctions agency – OTSI – to launch in 2024 By Helen Harvey On 11 December 2023, the UK government announced the creation of the Office for Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) as part of the...
08 Dec, 2023 Supreme Court victory for the Fishers confirms that shareholders are not “transferors” under the Transfer of Assets Abroad regime By Jennifer Smithson Andy Carruthers Klara Kronbergs The UK Supreme Court recently handed down the final judgment in the long-running Fisher1 Transfer of Assets Abroad (TOAA) litigation,...
07 Dec, 2023 Play your cards right: betting company secures DPA in relation to historic bribery By Helen Harvey Victoria Braid What started off in 2019 as an HMRC investigation into the activities of Entain Plc’s (Entain) former Turkish-facing online betting and...
07 Dec, 2023 The FCA's Overseas Funds Regime consultation: what does it cover? By Lora Froud Tiffany Cox Emma Garnham Gavin Haran +1 more... Show less On 4 December 2023, the FCA published its consultation (CP23/26) on operationalising the Overseas Funds Regime ("OFR"). Significantly...
07 Dec, 2023 A risky business: using without prejudice material in adjudication By Mark Lawrence Richard Alam Philip Kershaw Introduction The High Court’s recent decision in AZ v BY [2023] EWHC 2388 (TCC) concerns the use of material that is subject to without...
04 Dec, 2023 Don’t fall asleep at the wheel: the role of directors in the current markets By Jat Bains Paul Keddie Lois Horne Katherine Hensby +1 more... Show less On Thursday 9 November, Macfarlanes hosted a webinar which focused on the role of directors and in particular navigating those stresses...