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: practical implications By Mathew Rutter 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
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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.
DAC Beachcroft successful in important Clean Air Zone procurement challenge By Tim Dennis Neology UK Ltd v The Council of the City of Newcastle Upon Tyne & Ors [2020] EWHC 2958 (TCC) Tim Dennis (Legal Director), Hannah Chapelhow (Senior Associate), David Mahon (Associate) and Scott Speirs (Solicitor) of DAC Beachcroft LLP…
COVID 19 – Code of Conduct between Landlords and Tenants for Commercial Rents By Ronan McLoughlin The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation published a Code of Conduct between Landlords and Tenants for Commercial Rents on 1 st October 2020 ( the “Code ”), (full text available here ), which has been developed in consultation with…
New immigration system to go live on 1 December 2020 By Shahjahan Ali The UK’s new immigration system will come into force at 9am on 1 December 2020, laying out the detailed requirements that employers and individuals will need to meet in order secure leave to enter or remain in the UK. Marking a significant shift…
Mind the (social unrest) gap! In an era of mass protest, how can (re)insurers balance the risk with the needs of insureds? Since 2017 over 100 countries worldwide have seen significant civil unrest or mass protest. 2019 saw the Chilean riots, the “Gilets Jaunes” and Hong Kong’s Umbrella movement, while 2020 has witnessed the global expansion of Black Lives Matter and…
Hybrid Retirement By Crispin Tomlinson Crispin Tomlinson, Head of Residential at international law firm DAC Beachcroft, considers the changes driving the later life living market.
Further political upheaval in Latin America - Peru’s revolving presidential door By Anthony Menzies Last year saw repeated violence on the streets of Chile, Latin America’s most advanced economy. Though the protests were initially sparked by a government announcement increasing public transport fares, there were clearly wider issues under the…
Collective redundancies – ECJ decision on reference period By Nick Chronias The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has confirmed in UQ v Marclean Technologies SLU that in deciding if the threshold for collective redundancy consultation is triggered, the reference period must be calculated taking into account any period of 30…
The illegality defence in professional negligence claims – where are we now, post Stoffel? Stoffel & Co (Appellant) v Grondona (Respondent) [2020] UKSC 42 By Philip Murrin In what circumstances should claimants partaking in illegal or immoral activity be permitted to seek damages from those exposed for other possible civil wrong-doing? Defining this, in a clear manner permitting widespread application, has been a…
More ‘suicide’ and ‘unlawful killing’ inquest conclusions ahead? By Tracey Longfield How sure does a coroner/inquest jury have to be about the circumstances of a death in order to reach a conclusion of ‘suicide’ or ‘unlawful killing’?
Aggregation under solicitors’ policies – the boomerang returns By Philip Murrin The volume of claims against the legal profession, and frequency of large scale alleged loss scenarios, has unfortunately meant that the issue of aggregation under solicitors’ professional indemnity policies has had to be frequently considered by…
