5/31/2023 1:05:35 PM 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...
5/17/2023 4:36:29 PM English High Court denies ClientEarth's "world-first" climate-related derivative action against the directors of Shell By Lois Horne Chloe Edworthy Riley Forson On 12 May 2023, the English High Court denied permission to ClientEarth to proceed with a substantive application for permission to...
5/17/2023 10:19:02 AM Enforcement crackdown on use of unauthorised communication channels continues By Lorna Emson Madeleine Brown invAs we wrote about in more detail in our recent article, employee use of personal communications channels for work purposes has become...
5/15/2023 9:42:27 AM 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 [1]...
5/11/2023 2:20:38 PM Better late than never: UK set to update criminal insider dealing framework By Lorna Emson Helen Harvey James Reid The UK is set to implement a new statutory instrument (SI) to align the scope of the UK’s criminal insider dealing regime with the...
5/11/2023 12:34:26 PM Non-compete clauses to be capped at three months as the Government announces post-Brexit employment law measures By Macfarlanes The Government has announced a number of employment law measures in its policy paper: Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy. The...
5/9/2023 11:25:56 AM You've Gotta Have (Good) Faith By Martha Campbell The fundamental function of trade marks is as an indicator of origin – that is, to enable consumers to easily distinguish the goods and...
5/9/2023 9:09:14 AM Sustainable drafting for sustainability-linked loans? By Rachel Richardson Andrew Perkins Adam Caines Jamie Macpherson +1 more... Show less On 4 May 2023 the Loan Market Association (LMA) published model provisions for those borrowing, lending and arranging...
5/5/2023 11:57:57 AM Fall-out from last Autumn’s LDI crisis culminates in new Pensions Regulator LDI Guidance By Faye Jarvis William Sykes The Regulator has published its detailed Funding and Investment Guidance, Using leveraged liability-driven investment. Cast to provide...
5/4/2023 2:49:08 PM Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? The UK Government Fraud Strategy 2023 By Lorna Emson Francis Bond Joshua Rutt The UK Government has proclaimed a “fundamental shift” in its approach to tackling fraud, a problem that accounts for 40% of all recorded...
5/2/2023 4:33:38 PM Naidoo v Barton: undue influence and the risks of mutual wills By Finn Waldron Mutual wills are the stuff of legal cautionary tales. These unusual devices typically involve a married couple entering into wills in...