Statistics released by the OECD for 2019 (see here) show that the trend for increasing use of the mutual agreement procedure (“MAP”) as a...
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When a number of tech giants announced earlier this year that home working would be the norm until 2021, many were surprised. Now that...
Freshfields partner Nigel Rawding QC and senior associate Olivia Valner, together with Charles Kimmins QC and Luke Pearce of Twenty...
The German presidency of the Council and representatives from the European Parliament have recently agreed on an update to the EU...
The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) and HM Treasury have confirmed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, will not consent to...
Last week, we published a blog post setting out the issues with GMP equalisation and highlighting the outstanding issues in relation to...
Whistleblowing remains a significant area of focus for financial services regulators, who regard the way firms deal with whistleblowers...
Following the publication earlier this year of guidelines on the protection of online consumers ('the Guidelines'), the Netherlands...
Today the provisional agreement on the proposal for a new Directive on representative actions that was reached in June 2020 was formally...
A few weeks ago, the German government published its official draft bill reforming the crime of money laundering in Germany (section 261...
Following an evening of debate, the Pension Schemes Bill (the Bill) had its third reading in the House of Commons on Monday. Yet again,...
In 2018, when the Lloyds Banking Group Pensions Trustees Limited v Lloyds Bank plc and others case ([2018] EWHC 2839 (Ch)) (the Lloyds...