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...
May 15, 2023 Oil still present on claimants’ land not a “continuing private nuisance” according to the UK Supreme Court in the ongoing Jalla v Shell litigation By Chloe Edworthy Riley Forson Madeleine Brown For the second time this year, the Supreme Court has given guidance on the tort of private nuisance. Following the decision in Fearn...
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...
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 Budget 2018: how ambitious is the new UK tech tax? By Gregory Price The Chancellor surprised many by announcing in his Budget speech that the UK will press ahead with its own tax on digital services,...
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 Lewin Higgins-Green As predictions continue to be made about how the UK Chancellor will fund the announced "end of austerity" (predictions which include...
Jul 24, 2018 A new UK Corporate Governance Code By Harry Coghill Dominic Sedghi Last week the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published the long-awaited new-look UK Corporate Governance Code.The new Code is in part...
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...