Lawbite: What is the intention?
London Kendal Street No.3 Limited v Daejan Investments Limited (County Court) Earlier this summer the County Court at Central London issued the first decided case to apply the test given in the...
View ArticleShareholders Rights Directive requires institutional investors and asset...
Background The EU’s amended Shareholder Rights Directive (“SRD II”), which had to be transposed into Member States’ domestic rules by 10 June 2019, builds on the original Shareholder Rights Directive...
View ArticlePayment Matters: No. 43
Welcome to the latest edition of Payment Matters, our popular payment services briefing which rounds up payments sector news from the UK, Europe and beyond. This edition includes: 1. The Financial...
View ArticleFCAs Market Study into General Insurance Pricing Practices: Pricing...
The FCA has published its interim report in relation to its market study into how general insurance firms charge their customers for home and motor insurance (Interim Report). The FCA has...
View ArticleGovernment Amends Temporary Tariffs for Lorries, Bioethanol and Clothing...
On 8 October 2019, the Government announced changes to the UK’s temporary tariff regime for certain products in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Under the proposals, which were first published on 13...
View ArticleBank Negara Malaysia - Policy Guidance on Risk Management in Technology...
The Central Bank of Malaysia or Bank Negara Malaysia (‘BNM’) on 18 July 2019 issued another policy document which sets out its requirements to the nation’s Financial Institutions (‘FIs’) management of...
View ArticleA transparent process: Irish DPC issues new guidance on data sharing in the...
The Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) issued guidance on data sharing in the public sector. The DPC noted its support for developing more efficient and customer-centric public services and sought to...
View ArticleTaxing the Digital Economy - The ABCs of the Secretariat Proposal for a...
On 9 October 2019, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) published its latest public consultation paper in relation to its proposals to address the challenges of taxing the...
View ArticleEversheds Sutherland property column: October 2019
Chris Mullings of Eversheds Sutherland discusses the different contractual arrangements for options, pre-emptions and rights of first offer, and considers which might best suit particular...
View ArticleBack to Black but not quite yet: Revised methodology agreed but no new EU...
As the European Council met today to discuss a revised methodology to be used in the creation of a new EU blacklist of ‘high-risk third countries’ with strategic AML and CTF deficiencies, Zia Ullah...
View ArticleEducation briefing - A plague of incorrect BRPs causes chaos across the...
September and October are important and busy enrolment periods for Tier 4 sponsors. Institution’s compliance teams had enough to content with this academic year with the added complication that the...
View ArticleArticle: Pre-ticked boxes arent consent for cookie placement
CJEU Ruling on Cookies On 1 October 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave a preliminary ruling1 on questions referred from the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice in...
View ArticlePlanning for a no deal Brexit
We cannot discount the possibility that the United Kingdom will leave the European Union without any agreement on any transitional period and with nothing finalised on what the UK’s future trading...
View ArticleUK: Worlds first sustainable low-carbon greenhouse project
Advising on an innovative first in the renewables heat sector Eversheds Sutherland has advised Oasthouse Ventures on the development of the world’s first sustainable, low-carbon greenhouse projects....
View ArticleGerman data protection authorities agree on calculation model for GDPR fines
While fines recently imposed by the French and UK data protection supervisory authorities have been high, the supervisory authorities in Germany have so far imposed rather moderate penalties. This...
View ArticleDecision of the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main on bundling of...
In its decision of 27. June 2019 (Ref. 6 U 6/19), the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main ruled that participation in a sweepstakes can be made dependent on participants giving their consent to...
View ArticleThe Fiat & Starbucks State Aid cases: The arms length principle, a new tool...
In Brief: On 24 September 2019, the General Court of the European Union (the “General Court”) (the “UE”) ruled on two decisions of the European Commission (the “Commission”) regarding the potential...
View ArticleLawbite: Keep your ear to the ground
In the matter of an application by (1) Gary Owen (2) Heather Lynn Richards [2019] UKUT 171 (LC) A recent Upper Tribunal case highlights the importance of ensuring that applications to modify or...
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