Articles - DAC Beachcroft

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July 2019

Limitation and tax advice - not a simple matter of counting years

Limitation and tax advice - not a simple matter of counting years

A recent judgment in Evans v PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP [2019] considers the question of when a limitation period runs in circumstances where tax liab ...

Notification of Circumstances under a Professional Indemnity policy – the Court of Appeal clarifies the scope and effect of a “hornet’s nest” notification

Notification of Circumstances under a Professional Indemnity policy – the Court of Appeal clarifies the scope and effect of a “hornet’s nest” notification

Claims against professional advisors, such as accountants, auditors and tax consultants often take months and even years to develop and reach fruition ...

Can change of position defence defeat liquidators claims under Section 127?

Can change of position defence defeat liquidators claims under Section 127?

Section 127 of the Insolvency Act renders void any disposition of property by a company made in the period between presentation of the winding up peti ...

HMRC to be reinstated as “preferential creditor”

HMRC to be reinstated as “preferential creditor”

Following a recent government consultation, new draft legislation is expected this summer which will render HMRC as a “secondary preferential creditor ...

LatAm Newsletter - July 2019

LatAm Newsletter - July 2019

Tendencias en la Argentina en materia de la oponibilidad de deducibles y sumas aseguradas en coberturas de responsabilidad civil. En la Argentina ...

Clinical Risk Headlines - July 2019

Clinical Risk Headlines - July 2019

Welcome to your first edition of Headlines - bringing you the latest developments in the Clinical Risk sector, to keep you up to date and to assist wi ...

CMA investigates highly anticipated hospital acquisition

CMA investigates highly anticipated hospital acquisition

The UK’s competition watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (‘CMA’), is currently investigating the anticipated acquisition by Aintree Univer ...

Real Estate Tip of the Week - Claim Deadlines for Collateral Warranties

Real Estate Tip of the Week - Claim Deadlines for Collateral Warranties

The case of Swansea Stadium Management Co Ltd v City & County of Swansea Interserve Construction Limited [2018] EWHC 2192 (TCC) serves to remind t ...

NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Consultation on Changes to  Digital-First Primary Care

NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Consultation on Changes to Digital-First Primary Care

NHS England and NHS Improvement (“NHSE/I”) have published the Digital-First Primary Care Policy: consultation on patient registration, funding and con ...

The World Anti-Doping Code updated

The World Anti-Doping Code updated

The 2021 version of the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code) is likely to be approved at the fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport, to be held in Nov ...