Introduced in 1999 following Lord Woolf’s Access to Justice inquiry, the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) was the most...
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The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published the results of a study on parallel trade across the economy, which it had...
Back in March, Lord Tyrie, the Chairman of the UK Competition and Markets Authority, proposed that the CMA gain tough new powers to allow...
Since the introduction of the Musterfeststellungsklage (Declaratory Model Action or DMA) on 1 November 2018, five DMAs have been filed so...
In October 2018 the Dutch government adopted its new model bilateral investment treaty (BIT) (for further details please see "New model...
Many companies use post-contractual non-compete covenants to protect their business interests. To negotiate such provisions with key...
It is widely accepted that the current suspicious activities reporting regime (“SARs”) under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) and...
Money laundering risks in capital markets have been a focus for regulators since capital markets were identified by the UK government as...
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that negative interest is NOT payable under ISDA Credit Support Agreements CSAs, unless there is a...