26 Feb, 2018 ECJ rules pregnant women’s contracts of employment may be terminated in case of collective redundancies By Raquel Domínguez Porras Guisado v Bankia S.A C-103/16 On 22 February 2018 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) published its...
23 Feb, 2018 French anti-corruption agency provides guidance on Sapin II compliance By Emmanuelle Brunelle In June last year, France’s landmark new anti-corruption law, known as Sapin II,[1] came fully into effect. Two major innovations of...
23 Feb, 2018 US Supreme Court Declines to Broaden Whistleblower Protections under Dodd-Frank By Daniel Cendan On February 21, 2018, the United States Supreme Court held that the anti-retaliation provision of the Dodd-Frank Act (i.e., the 2010...
13 Feb, 2018 EU pushes ‘AML compliance without borders’ By Neil Donovan Proposed EU AML standards are set to raise the compliance benchmark for global financial institutions and place a spotlight on the...
12 Feb, 2018 Product liability and supply chain implications of UK being a 'third country' post-Brexit By Nicholas Grewal The European Commission has recently published a Notice to Stakeholders (the Notice). The Notice outlines potential for greater...
09 Feb, 2018 The future of collective actions in Europe - Declaratory Model Action (DMA) By Michael Rohls Co-author Martina de Lind van Wijngaarden 7 February 2018 saw the completion of negotiations for a “big coalition” government in Germany....
09 Feb, 2018 Litigation privilege - the English High Court casts doubt on the general application of ENRC By Caroline Doherty de Novoa In the recent Bilta (UK) Ltd (in Liquidation) v RBS the English High Court revisited, but did not follow, one aspect of last year’s SFO...
08 Feb, 2018 The Future of Work - UK Government's response to the Taylor Review delivers little, at least in the short term By Harriet Gaillard As you may have seen in the Press, the UK Government has published its long awaited response to the Taylor review. The ‘Good Work’...
07 Feb, 2018 UK banking litigation – the key trends of 2017 and what to watch in 2018 By Emma Probyn Much as they did in 2016, cross-border financial transactions continued to generate litigation throughout 2017, and the English courts...
06 Feb, 2018 Bitcoin bans, class actions and EU research: latest crypto regulation in brief By Edward Beard If a week is a long time in politics, 24 hours is an eternity in blockchain and cryptocurrency news. Keeping ahead of the hourly...
02 Feb, 2018 The future of collective actions in Europe – the European Commission report on its 2013 Recommendation By Ashmita Garrett The anticipated European Commission’s report (CR) on implementation of its 2013 Recommendation on collective redress (Recommendation)...
02 Feb, 2018 FCA Enforcement in 2017 - Don't just look at the numbers By Thomas Clark If you were just to look at the projected level of fines for the FCA’s 2017-18 financial year, you would think that the FCA’s enforcement...