Jul 30, 2020 High Court hearing of business interruption test case concludes By Macfarlanes Today, the High Court hearing of the FCA’s business interruption insurance (BI) test case reached its conclusion. Over the course of an...
Jul 29, 2020 Leasehold and commonhold home ownership: Law Commission reports By Rebecca Delaney Helen Simmons On 21 July 2020 The Law Commission published three lengthy reports into the future of home ownership. The reports were commissioned...
Jul 28, 2020 Securitisation Regulation - STS and NPE amendments By Richard Fletcher On 24 July 2020, the European Commission published a legislative proposal for a regulation to amend the Securitisation Regulation (the SR...
Jul 27, 2020 Remote witnessing of wills in England and Wales to be made legal By Clare Wilson The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted many people to put in place a will, in order to ensure that their assets pass in accordance with their...
Jul 27, 2020 Panel discusses the changing face of leasing By Macfarlanes A panel of experts from the real estate industry discussed the commercial leasing landscape during Covid-19 at Bisnow’s ‘The Big Shift -...
Jul 23, 2020 UK to invest £100m in stronger AML checks through tax on banks By Neill Blundell Francis Bond The UK is set to go ahead with a £100m investment in improving anti-money laundering systems, funded by a “levy” on financial...
Jul 17, 2020 More flesh on the bones: further detail on the post-2020 UK immigration system By Macfarlanes The UK Government has provided further details of the new immigration system it plans to implement when the Brexit transition period...
Jul 17, 2020 Shedding preconceptions: logistics stakes claim for major role in post-Covid real estate market By Macfarlanes Whilst the desperate scenes of empty supermarket shelves and booked-out online grocery delivery slots at the start of the Covid-19...
Jul 17, 2020 High Court Approves G4S Deferred Prosecution Agreement By Neill Blundell Francis Bond The High Court has approved the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) eighth Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA). We blogged earlier this week on...
Jul 17, 2020 5MLD and Trust Registration Service - impact on offshore trustees By Jennifer Smithson This week, HMRC and HM Treasury published the summary of responses and the outcome to the trust register consultation. This is an...
Jul 16, 2020 Schrems II: the end to the EU-US Privacy Shield By Macfarlanes The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has today issued its long-awaited judgment in the so-called Schrems II case. The case...
Jul 16, 2020 Co-ordinated global anti-corruption settlements By Neill Blundell Francis Bond The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has indicated that further co-ordinated global anti-corruption settlements can be expected later this...
Jul 15, 2020 Dirty money should have nowhere to hide: the EU’s continued emphasis on the fight against money laundering By Neill Blundell Helen Harvey “Dirty money should have nowhere to hide.” With these words, Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU Commission Vice President, addressed the European...
Jul 14, 2020 Capital gains tax: all change? By Gregory Price The Chancellor has asked the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) to review various aspects of the UK capital gains tax regime, with a...
Jul 14, 2020 ESMA publishes final report on securitisation repository data guidelines By Richard Fletcher Edward Karsten Kartik Iyer In January 2020, we discussed ESMA’s publication of a consultation paper on securitisation data submissions pursuant to Article 4(2)(d)...
Jul 13, 2020 The SFO gets agreement in principle for its eighth DPA By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has received approval in principle to enter into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with G4S Care and...