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July 2020

New Permitted Development Right to demolish a building built before 1990 and rebuild it for housing.

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 ...

Real Estate Tip of the Week: Re-occupation

Real Estate Tip of the Week: Re-occupation

We set out below a number of practical steps and actions to help landlords as tenants begin to re-occupy shops, restaurants and offices.

Ogden 8: Modest Multiplier Reductions

Ogden 8: Modest Multiplier Reductions

The much awaited latest version of the Ogden Tables (the 8th edition) has now been published by the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD). What impact ...

Terminating Contracts and Customer Insolvency

Terminating Contracts and Customer Insolvency

Suppliers are now prevented from terminating many contracts and supplies of goods or services if the customer is subject to a ‘relevant insolvency pro ...

GC Horizon Scanner - Summer 2020

GC Horizon Scanner - Summer 2020

DAC Beachcroft's GC Horizon Scanner is a selection of legal and regulatory developments that we consider are the most interesting and relevant to Gene ...

Considerations When Obtaining and Executing a Search Order

Considerations When Obtaining and Executing a Search Order

Injunctions – and in particular Search Orders – involve high octane work and allow litigators a rare bit of glamour (usually enjoyed by the old fashio ...

A new era of corporate compliance in a time of financial crisis

A new era of corporate compliance in a time of financial crisis

In March we discussed adequacy in relation to compliance programmes (Organisations' compliance programmes - a question of adequacy), and what is expec ...

Disease Update: 2020 Q2

Disease Update: 2020 Q2

In this edition of the DACB Q1 Disease Update we cover COVID-19, Glyphosate: Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Legionnaire’s disease, Occupational Stress, Asbesto ...

Recent case finds charity’s policy discriminates unlawfully

Recent case finds charity’s policy discriminates unlawfully

The case of R (Cornerstone (North East) Adoption and Fostering Service Ltd v Ofsted [2020] EWHC 1679 (Admin) was decided last Friday 10 July. In very ...

Schrems II: Privacy Shield faces same demise as Safe Harbor. Uncertain future for Standard Contractual Clauses for US transfers.

Schrems II: Privacy Shield faces same demise as Safe Harbor. Uncertain future for Standard Contractual Clauses for US transfers.

5 years on from Schrems I and the fall of Safe Harbor, today history repeated itself with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) passing ju ...