Sep 06, 2023 Nutrient neutrality, we hardly knew ye By Henry Vane Before they tip their hard hats to the housing secretary, who last week announced plans to abolish unpopular nutrient neutrality (NN)...
Jul 18, 2023 Positive changes to UK immigration rules – automatic extensions for those with Pre-Settled Status By Edward Reed Just before Christmas 2022, the High Court ruled against the Home Office on the legality of the two-step EU Settlement Scheme application...
May 31, 2023 Government rejects proposal for further regulation in the secondary ticketing sector By Martha Campbell Matthew Bennett The UK government has formally responded to the CMA’s call for greater regulation of the secondary ticketing market, announcing this...
Apr 11, 2023 The CMA’s increasing scrutiny of online businesses’ use of urgency claims By Matthew Bennett On 31 March 2023, the CMA issued a press release announcing that it had launched an investigation into Wowcher's use of countdown timers...
Sep 29, 2021 The ISDA 2021 EONIA Collateral Agreement Fallbacks Protocol By Rob Daniell The European Overnight Index, or EONIA, is due to permanently cease to be published from 3 January 2022, as EONIA does not meet the...
Apr 30, 2021 Conviction and collapse: a mixed week for the SFO By Lorna Emson James Reid On Wednesday the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced that it had secured a corporate conviction against GPT Special Project Management...
May 14, 2020 No weak links: EU Commission publishes action plan for unified money laundering fight By Neill Blundell Helen Harvey The EU Commission has published an action plan aimed at ensuring the EU puts on a more unified front in the fight against money...
Nov 07, 2018 Transferring IP-heavy companies: an important tax change By Gregory Price Today’s draft Finance Bill contains a simple, but important, change to the taxation of companies which hold valuable intangibles.As I...
Nov 02, 2018 Budget 2018: VAT By Charishma Bhujohory There was relatively little mention of VAT in the Budget but there were some potentially significant announcements regarding perceived...
Oct 30, 2018 Three Rivers strikes again – emails between in-house lawyer and employee held not to be privileged By Jonathan Pratt In the recent case of Glaxo Wellcome UK Ltd (t/a Allen & Hanburys) v Sandoz Ltd [2018] EWHC 2747 (Ch), the Court held that an exchange of...
Oct 30, 2018 The quiet but not shy overseas intangibles tax By Rhiannon Kinghall Were The new digital services tax (DST) has stolen many of the headlines the morning after the Budget. The unassumingly titled "offshore...
Oct 29, 2018 Widened eligibility for special short term business visitor reporting By Macfarlanes Buried, a little, within the detail of the 2018 Budget will come some positive news for employers with short term business visitors...
Oct 29, 2018 Suspicious Activity Reports - still a defence, but possibly a weakness By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs A person (more usually, a company) may defend itself against committing a money laundering offence by submitting a Suspicious Activity...
Oct 25, 2018 The employment allowance - enabling job creation, or simply free money? By Macfarlanes As predictions continue to be made about how the UK Chancellor will fund the announced "end of austerity" (predictions which include...
Jul 24, 2018 Changes to the UK's Corporate Governance Code put focus on executive remuneration By Rob Collard The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has now published the 2018 Corporate Governance Code. Although the new Code looks very different in...