A new corporate governance code fit for the future
Following feedback on consultation, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published the 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code (the Code) which will replace the 2016 UK Corporate Governance Code for...
View ArticleEducation e-briefing - Government clarifies the impact of strike action on...
In our briefing dated 29 March 2018 we referred to the issue that had arisen from the recent industrial dispute between the Univer...
View ArticleRecent Brexit developments: implications for employment and immigration law
From the early days of her premiership, Theresa May has stated she is committed to protecting workers’ existing employment rights after Brexit, including those derived from EU law, and to taking back...
View ArticleCorporate Claims bulletin - June 2018
LIABILITY Marrett-Gregory v Metroline Ltd & Anor [2018] QBD The claimant brought a claim on behalf of a passenger fatally injured on the defendant’s bus. The passenger was 90 at the time of the...
View ArticleCOTY: Frankfurt court confirms luxury brands may prohibit sales on third...
Sellers of luxury products may prohibit their business partners from offering their goods on third party platforms. In a judgment of 12 July 2018, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt1 followed the...
View ArticleNew UK Corporate Governance Code is published
The Financial Reporting Council (the “FRC”) published the final version of the new UK Corporate Governance Code (the “Code”) on 16 July 2018. The new Code applies to all UK companies with a premium...
View ArticleThe common rulebook in context reflections on certain aspects of the UK...
On 12 July, the UK Government published a White Paper setting out its proposal for a future UK-EU relationship, following Brexit. The type of UK-EU relationship which this envisages is unprecedented,...
View ArticleCorporate Claims eNews
Small Claims Limit Increase Delayed for at Least Another Year The Government Response to the Justice Committee’s Seventh Report of Session 2017-2019: Small Claims Limit for Personal Injury has now...
View ArticleCMA proposes changes to the markets for investment consultancy and fiduciary...
Executive summary The CMA’s Provisional Decision Report was published on 18 July 2018 following its market investigation into the supply and acquisition of investment consulting (IC) and fiduciary...
View ArticleInjunctive relief granted in relation to IT assets
Summary Keyfresh IT Limited (“Keyfresh”) acquired the assets of insolvent software company iTech IT Ltd (“iTech”). Fourteen minutes later, an iTech employee changed the passwords for iTech’s IT...
View ArticleWarning - poor driving conditions
Warning - Poor Driving ConditionsLooking after those on the roadThe latest statistics released by the Health and Safety Executive highlight that the Transportation and Storage Sector have a rate of...
View ArticleUK: The Road to Zero
On July 9 2018 the Department for Transport issued Road to Zero, which sets out a policy for delivering significant decarbonisation of transport, and putting the UK at the forefront of the design and...
View ArticleEducation e-briefing - Case Update
Welcome to our education employment team’s latest case update. This update highlights some useful, practical employment law decisions which have emerged from the courts in the last few months...
View ArticleA settled position on Setting?
On 18 July 2017, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Catesby Estates and SSCLG v Steer and Historic England in considering whether an inspector erred in law in his understanding of the concept...
View ArticleSharing is caring: The sentencing approach to linked organisations
Sharing is caring The sentencing approach to linked organisations Normally, only information relating to the organisation before the court will be relevant, unless exceptionally it is demonstrated...
View ArticleCourt steps in after business locked out of its own #ITsystems
Summary Keyfresh IT Limited (Keyfresh) acquired the assets of insolvent software company iTech IT Ltd (iTech). Fourteen minutes later, an iTech employee changed the passwords for iTechs IT...
View ArticleAttention all Security Service Providers: Cut-off date for the renewal of...
Have you remembered to register? All PSiRA certificates, whether due for renewal or not, must be reissued by 30 November 2018. Certificates must be reissued as the new certificates have encrypted...
View ArticleNo Legal Privilege for German Lawyers in Internal Investigations?
With a decision dated 6 June 2018 the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe („Court“) confirmed the position that generally German lawyers do not enjoy the application of the doctrine of...
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