Oct 11, 2024 Employment Rights Bill explained By Holly Insley David Mendel Anika Prasad In the nick of time before the expiry of its first 100 days, the government yesterday unveiled its long-awaited Employment Rights Bill....
Oct 11, 2024 "Guidelines not rules" - our take on the Investment Association updated Principles of Remuneration By Alice Greenwell David Mendel Anika Prasad Amelia Lamp +1 more... Show less On 8 October, the Investment Association (IA) published its updated Principles of Remuneration (the Principles) following the review...
Oct 10, 2024 The EU Product Liability Directive: Key Implications for Software and AI By Moritz Becker Lutz Riede Kristina Weiler Anita Bell Christina Moellnitz +2 more... Show less The European Union‘s updated Product Liability Directive (PLD), adopted by the European Council today and expected to come into effect in...
Oct 09, 2024 Plans for a new online procedure for civil proceedings in Germany – the first real-world laboratory in the German justice system By Martina de Lind van Wijngaarden Katharina Shingler Helena Pilz The German justice system is to become more digital. One of the planned innovations to achieve this is a proposal by the Federal Ministry...
Oct 07, 2024 Uncapped social security contributions to be rolled out in Spain in 2025 for high earners By Raquel Flórez Oscar Bellsolell The Spanish social security system is funded by contributions from employers and employees, calculated on the basis of the employee’s...
Oct 03, 2024 Incentives, Penalties, and Enforcers: BIS’s Final Rule Signals Focus on Corporate Compliance Enhancements By Nabeel Yousef Stephanie Brown Cripps Kimberly Zelnick Adam Siegel Andrew Bulovsky Young Park Hina Uddin +4 more... Show less On September 12, 2024, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule revising the Export...
Oct 03, 2024 Next steps for UK product regulation – the new Product Regulation and Metrology Bill By Harriet Hanks Andrew Austin Ananya Maheshwari The OPSS (Office for Product Safety and Standards - the UK’s product safety regulator) proposed an overhaul of the UK’s current product...
Sep 27, 2024 EHRC publishes technical guidance on the duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace By Holly Insley Anika Prasad The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has now published its updated technical guidance for employers on the steps they should...
Sep 27, 2024 UK Supreme Court confirms the circumstances in which UK anti-suit injunctions are available in support of foreign-seated arbitrations By Ali Kirby-Harris Eid-Daniel Jadon Maxim Pyrkov Flavia Williams Jack Harrison Tobias Messervy-Whiting +3 more... Show less On 18 September 2024, the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC following an earlier...
Sep 27, 2024 Privilege in the context of European tax investigations: Court of Justice confirms tax advice is privileged By Helen Buchanan Laura Western Almost all corporate taxpayers will have sought the advice of tax lawyers at one time or another – be it in the context of a transaction,...
Sep 25, 2024 FCA's further report on de-banking focuses on the Consumer Duty By Sharon Tong Anthea Bowater The FCA has published its follow-up report on “UK Payment Accounts Access and Closures: Update” (the Update Report). In its last report,...
Sep 25, 2024 FCA consultation on publicising investigations: Talks to resume By Lucy Clark After a few months of silence (the FCA’s promise to listen to the “extensive feedback” it had received at the consultation’s close in...