Brexit and contractual continuity how no deal will work becomes clearer
Financial Services Contracts Regulations 2019 - UK-EU27 memoranda of understanding Introduction FCA Consultation Paper CP19/2 “Brexit and contractual continuity” The new financial services contracts...
View ArticleProtection of the rule of law in the exchange of information on demand
The Luxembourg law of 1 March 2019 has increased the protection of the rights of the information holder in the procedure of exchange of information on demand in tax matters. Indeed, initially, the...
View ArticleBack to school - revisiting reverters
Experienced developers working in the education sector will be aware of the rules on reverters and how they can impact on proposed schemes. However, those who do not regularly work in this area would...
View ArticlePayment Matters: No. 40
The Payment Systems Regulator publishes its final Terms of Reference for a review into the acquiring market The Financial Conduct Authority finalises guidance on the fairness of variation terms in...
View ArticleChallenging IT implementations - a UK reminder about the fundamentals for...
Sanderson Limited v Simtom Food Products Limited [2019] EWHC 442 (TCC) Summary Whatever the sector, IT transformation can deliver superior services, development of dynamic business models, increased...
View ArticleSupreme Court confirms that commercial education providers can provide VAT...
On 20 March 2019, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the case of SAE Education Limited v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs [2019] UKSC 14. The Supreme Court has decided...
View ArticleBuild to rent: legal issues for a growing sector
Eversheds Sutherland property column: March 2019 Over the last half decade, institutions and investors have become increasingly attracted by the dependable longterm income offered by large-scale...
View ArticleGood News for Insurers: European Commission Facilitates Wider Range of...
Background European Union Directive 2009/138/EC, also known as Solvency II, has had the effect that (re)insurers have been discouraged from investing in unlisted equities. Under the final text of a...
View ArticleGreater Expectations the Pension Regulators annual funding statement
In what has become an early spring tradition, the Pensions Regulator recently published its annual funding statement for 2019 (the Statement). The general themes are familiar but the statement is more...
View ArticleKSA: National Renewable Energy Program Round 2 Request for Qualification
Introduction The Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia (“MEIM”) is responsible for achieving the energy objectives set out in the Saudi Arabia Vision 2030. MEIM created...
View ArticleLuxembourg prepares for no-deal Brexit
Luxembourg to permit British asset managers to continue to do business in Luxembourg in the event of no-deal Brexit On 31 January 2019, the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies submitted a bill setting out...
View ArticleLawbite: Ready, willing and able?
Robert James Oakley, Carolyn Oakley, Jonathan Mark Page, Union Pension Trustees Limited, Morgan Lloyd Trustees Limited v Harper McKay Developments Limited [2018] EWHC 3405 (Ch) The Court recently had...
View ArticleLawbite: From Paving to Possession to Proprietor
Shirley Ann Thorpe v (1) Harald Nobert Frank (2) Lesley Frank [2019] EWCA Civ 150 The Court of Appeal has recently found that by paving an area an individual had done enough to establish that she had...
View ArticleGovernment announces new UK audit regulator with stronger powers
Following the publication of the Kingman Review in December 2018, the Government has announced that the Financial Reporting Council...
View ArticleUK Competition law Is it fit for the digital economy?
With the rapid growth of the digital economy, a number of competition authorities, as well as governments1 are in the process of assessing whether their competition enforcement tools are fit for the...
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