The UK will hold a general election on 4 July 2024. If, as current opinion polls strongly suggest, the opposition Labour party win a majority of seats in the UK’s lower house of parliament, it will bring an end to 14 years of...more
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) received Royal Assent and became law on 26 October 2023. It contains a new ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence whereby large organisations will be held criminally...more
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On 26 October 2023, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) received Royal Assent and became law. The ECCTA aims to tackle economic crime and improve corporate transparency through several reforms,...more
In October 2022, the U.K. Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published its Guidance, Software and AI as a Medical Device Change Programme – Roadmap, setting out how it will regulate software and AI medical...more
The below is a brief summary of the judgment handed down in Lloyd v Google LLC [2021] UKSC 50 by the Supreme Court on November 10, 2021 as potentially one of the most significant and anticipated data privacy judgments to...more
On 17 May 2021, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) released its 2020 Annual Casework Report, which provides an insight into the LCIA’s caseload in 2020, and the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on its...more
In a potentially major setback to judicial cooperation across Europe, the European Commission has issued a statement that the UK should not be allowed to join the 2007 Lugano Convention (the “Convention”). In their...more
Following an adjustment to immigration rules announced by the Home Office on 5 May 2021, if you’re the recipient of an elite award, you may now be eligible to bypass part of the existing immigration process and access a...more
2021 is already off to a surreal start, but it has nonetheless been coined a “completely new beginning” for the real estate sector as businesses look to turn the page on 2020 and confront the realities of a market that has...more
The September quarter day saw the steepest shortfall in retail rents paid since the pandemic. However, this was the only sector to see rent collection down on the previous quarter. Faegre Drinker’s Rajan Shori, Sloan Kelly...more