Accountant's Liability By Richard Highley The Accountant's Liability Collection brings you topical news and insight of interest to accountants, actuaries, trustees and other financial professionals and their professional indemnity insurers.
Autonomous Driving By Peter Allchorne What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests you most, by collecting everything into useful packages. A Collection…
Banking and finance dispute resolution By Jonathan Brogden For the latest news and comment on banking and finance disputes.
Brexit: the legal implications By Virginia Clegg Our views and guidance on the implications of Brexit for the business community.
Charities This collection looks at the latest news and comment on charities. What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests…
Clinical negligence By Nigel Montgomery For all the latest news and comment in clinical negligence healthcare law
Clinical regulatory By Corinne Slingo For all the latest news and comment in clinical regulatory healthcare law
Commercial health By Anne Crofts This collection looks at the latest news and comment on commercial contracting healthcare law. With the health and social care sector under pressure to generate efficiencies, individual organisations must look at how they commission and deliver…
Construction Risks By Mark Roach Welcome to the Construction Risks collection. This space is used to report upon issues of interest to those who seek to allocate, manage and reduce construction risks on behalf of contractors, as well as insurers of construction risks.
Corporate By Matthew Darling For the latest news and comment on Corporate, M&A and Equity Capital Markets.
Dealing with a vexatious litigant – a time to show restraint By Vanessa Taylor-Byrne A vexatious litigant who refuses to accept defeat may place both a financial and emotional burden on the person they are litigating against. In this article, we look at how to protect litigants from vexatious proceedings against them and, at the…
Logistics: From the digital to the intelligent age By Sally Morris-Smith Sally Morris-Smith, a partner in the real estate team at international law firm DAC Beachcroft, examines the impact of six key technologies on business models in the Logistics sector. Technology will create opportunities for new players and shift…
£60,000 artificially exaggerated injury and taxi claim dismissed with a finding of fundamental dishonesty By Helen Mason Judgment was handed down on 22 July 2020 by his Honour Judge Monty QC in dishonest claims made against the First Defendant (who was uninsured) and the Motor Insurers’ Bureau as Second Defendant following a 2 day trial in the County Court at Central…
UK Government proposes tougher regime for approval of financial promotions By Mathew Rutter On 20th July 2020, HM Treasury (HMT) launched a consultation on a ‘regulatory gateway’ for authorised persons approving the financial promotions of unauthorised persons. It seeks to address concerns that the existing regime does not operate as a…
Collaboration in the FinTech Community By Alan Pratt The Whitecap Bristol and Bath FinTech Ecosystem report earlier in 2020 highlighted the success of the sector in the region. One of the perhaps more unexpected findings in the report was that the dynamism of the fintech sector was due to the strength…
The Importance of Exactitude - German court finds Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ system risks misleading consumers By Peter Allchorne As competition between vehicle manufacturers gathers pace to bring to market ever more sophisticated driver assistance technologies, there is a very real risk that consumers will over-estimate the capabilities of and place undue reliance on such…
General scheme of new Irish company law bill to address certain COVID-19 related issues By John Darmody Introduction The General Scheme of the Companies and Industrial and Provident Societies (COVID-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020 (the “ Bill ”) has been published by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation. The Bill aims to address areas of…
Re-orientation: Transformation in Logistics By Sally Morris-Smith Sally Morris-Smith, a Logistics expert in our Real Estate team, considers some of the immediate and long term trends for the Logistics sector. The COVID-19 pandemic will result in long term disruption and major change. The sector will be affected…
Vehicle Hire Fraud: Celebrating 10 Years By Helen Mason Celebrating 10 years of defending vehicle hire fraud, and saving over £45 million for insurers. We are delighted to have achieved savings in excess of £45 million in our specialist vehicle hire fraud team on our 10 year anniversary!
New Permitted Development Right to demolish a building built before 1990 and rebuild it for housing. The aim of the new right is to support regeneration through the residential redevelopment of vacant and redundant buildings that no longer effectively serve their original purpose, support housing delivery and boost housing density.
