Late last December, the FCA issued a Call for Input (CFI)[1] to explore the opportunities and risks arising from Open Finance. Comments are due by Tuesday 17 March 2020 – don’t miss your chance to ha...

Summary In this case certain E&Y entities based in London were ordered to pay USD10.8 million for loss of earnings to a whistleblowing former auditor employed by an E&Y entity that was not based in the UK and not party to the proceedings. Th...

On 1 May, the FCA issued two sets of draft guidance which will be important reading for all firms involved in insurance arrangements and particularly insurers, intermediaries and premium finance lenders. As it considers that the delay involved in co...

By Tim Brown and Wiwat Peerapatanapokin HONOLULU (September 17, 2019)—In 2018, roughly 6 million people were living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific, and 310,000 were newly infected, according to UNAIDS estimates. Despite these troubling numbers, financial support for the fight against AIDS is stagnant, and international resources for HIV programs in the region are declining. Given the continued HIV infection levels and limited funds for halting the epidemic, it is more important than ever for prevention efforts to achieve maximum impact with the resources available. This means that programs need to target the key populations most at risk of contracting HIV. In Asia, these key populations are female sex workers and their clients, people who inject drugs, and men who have sex with men....

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By Charles E. Morrison and Mark Nuttall HONOLULU (September 27, 2019)—In the summer of 2019, Greenland received considerable media attention for two developments: Its large ice sheet saw record rates of surface melt with potentially devastating impacts on the oceans, and Donald Trump suggested that the United States should look into buying the island from Denmark. Both illustrate key features of the changing Arctic—the amplified impact of climate change and concerns over the return of geostrategic competition after a post-Cold War period of international circumpolar cooperation.

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By Boy Lüthje HONOLULU (6 April 2020)—The development of electric and self-driving vehicles is bringing on a massive restructuring of the global automotive industry. Emerging forms of new and shared mobility undermine the very model of private car ownership that has underpinned the automotive industry since the days of Henry Ford.

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  The recent Court of Justice decision in Finanzamt Trier v Cardpoint GmbH (Case C-42/18), released on 3 October 2019, has decided that operators of automated teller machines (“ATMs”) must now charge VAT on their fees for services t...

  Summary On 1 November HMRC published its much anticipated guidance on the taxation of cryptoassets for businesses. The guidance sets out HMRC’s view on the taxation of transactions involving cryptoasset exchange tokens (such as Bitcoin)...

  What’s new? On 20 December 2019, HMRC published an updated version of its guidance on the taxation of cryptoassets for individuals. The guidance was updated to include a new section in respect of the location (situs) of exchange tokens ...

Given the development of the COVID-19 situation, it was anticipated that the UK government Budget would have a very different focus than originally expected. Trailed as the showcase fiscal policy event of the new Conservative government, it was alw...

The UK HMRC Stamp Office has released details of how it will temporarily change its procedures to allow for the submission and payment of stamp duty in respect of transfers of shares in UK companies. The standard requirements of HMRC in order to st...

No support in the Corona crisis... The measures already initiated by the German Federal Government and the EU Commission to support and secure liquidity in the Corona crisis are focused on the industries directly affected by Corona/ COVID 19. They ...

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Russia and the EAEU1 have adopted a number of customs regulation measures aimed at stimulating the importation of necessary goods to Russia and the EAEU, mainly through tariff regulation measures as well as restricting the ...

This edition of our quarterly labour law update contains the following content: News number of days lost to strikes in 2007, the highest in five years trade union membership falls in 2007 <...

The European Parliament agreed to a new 'recast' version of the European Works Council (EWC) Directive on Monday 15 December and this was confirmed when MEPs voted in favour on Tuesday 16 December. The recast EWC Directive is now expected to be...

Welcome to our quarterly labour law update. This edition contains the following content: News Agency regulations under review by coalition The threat of strikes and the law Unite leadership race Recent UK labour case law Worrall and othe...

Welcome to our quarterly labour law update. This edition contains the following content: News Acas sees rising demand for conciliation in disputes CAC reports drop in statutory recognition applications New ways of trade union organising Order ...

The European guide to strikes and other industrial action has been created by Eversheds Sutherland to provide you with a quickand easy reference when responding to threats of industrial action in 15 European countries. Click here to download the pub...

Over the past decade various attempts have been made to ensure civil litigation and "access to justice" are affordable to all. Indeed when the Woolf reforms were introduced over ten years ago one fundamental tenet of these reforms was to make the co...

Currently CPR 55.10 provides that where a mortgagee seeks possession of land which consists of or includes residential property the claimant must send a notice to the property addressed to 'the occupiers' within 5 days of receiving notification of t...

On 28 May 2009 the Solicitors Regulation Authority announced to the legal profession that 11,000 law firms throughout England and Wales would receive warning cards alerting them to potential fraudulent activity. 130,000 of these warning cards have n...

The Government has now responded fully to the 290 recommendations made by the Francis Inquiry earlier in the year. Since the publication of the report in February of this year, members of our team who acted as a part of the team acting as Solicitors...

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The English High Court, in the recent case Kairos Shipping Limited v. Enka & Co LLC & Others (Atlantic Confidence) [2013] EWHC 1904 (Comm), considered whether or not a tonnage limitation fund may be constituted by provision of a P&I club...

The Government has recently announced that the Consumer Rights Bill is intended to become law on 1 October 2015, subject to the ongoing Parliamentary process. The Bill is relevant to businesses in the transport sector as it will introduce significan...

Bunge SA v Nidera BV [2015] UKSC 43 This case was first brought to the attention of the Commercial Court in June 2013, when an appeal on the ruling of the first arbitral panel was sought by the Claimant, Bunge SA (“Bunge”). The matter at...

The biggest threat to Brazil's ability to successfully combat the spread of the coronavirus and tackle the unfolding public health crisis is the country's president, Jair Bolsonaro, according to the British medical journal The Lancet.

The COVID-19 lockdown wiped out 20.5 million jobs in the United States in April, destroying nearly all the positions created in the prior decade in the world's largest economy, the Labor Department reported on Friday.

Argentina will keep pushing for talks with creditors even as a deadline for its US$ 65 billion debt restructuring proposal passed on Friday with little sign it had the support needed from international bondholders to unlock a comprehensive deal. Apparently on averaged less than 20% of bondholders accepted Argentina's conditions

After 50 days in mandatory lockdown, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández announced on Friday that the quarantine will be extended until May 24th.

As the government searches for alternative sources of revenue, experts say the agricultural sector remains a promising area.

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Tanzania gets Madagascar's anti-coronavirus drink disputed by WHO.

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