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…
Aviation By Alex Stovold Topical news and insights of interest to aviation insurers and industry stakeholders on key strategic, commercial and regulatory developments.
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
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.
20 years on: is financial services regulation in the UK still fit for purpose? By Mathew Rutter On 1 December 2001, the UK adopted a radical new approach to the regulation of financial services. Some nine individual regulators of different parts of the financial services industry were merged into a single regulator – the Financial Services…
The ASA issues a “red alert” warning regarding NFTs and other crypto-asset advertising By Tim Ryan The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the UK’s advertising regulator, last week published a statement on its website, announcing its plans for increased regulatory activity in the marketing of cryptocurrencies and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). In…
COVID-19 - Winter Update and Omicron Variant By Thomas Jordan With the emergence of the new omicron variant of COVID-19 the UK Government has reintroduced some control measures in England from 30/11/21 including: •The mandatory wearing of face coverings in shops and on public transport. •The use of face…
Real Estate M&A 2021 By David Manifould DAC Beachcroft’s Corporate Real Estate Team considers the negotiation and completion of real estate combinations; the due diligence requirements and associated tax and regulatory issues
The impact of Google’s £3bn Supreme Court reprieve and other recent data breach decisions on solicitor firms By Catrin Davies The last month has seen significant decisions in the world of data breaches which will be welcomed by the legal profession and their insurers. The first decision of Lloyd v Google LLC [2021] UKSC 50 must be one of the most publicised cases of…
Another fraud success for DAC Beachcroft and Allianz By Catherine Burt In York County Court, in the case of Morris and Rominski v Johnson , James Hogg of Deans Court Chambers, instructed by DAC Beachcroft acting for the Defendant and their insurer Allianz successfully defended a claim by two Claimants and obtained a…
Lloyd v Google: what impact will the Supreme Court’s judgment have on data breach claims? By David Williams On 10 November 2021, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the matter of Lloyd v Google, finding in favour of Google and bringing to an end the claim estimated to have the potential to see damages of £3bn awarded.
Consultation Outcome: Consultation on Changes to the Electronic Communications Code By Kai Ricciardiello After 9 long months of waiting with bated breath government’s response has landed. A link to the governments response is here . We have set out some of the key proposals below. The statutory valuation framework is outside of the scope of the…
DACB promotes safety over speed in the regulation of new technologies By Peter Allchorne DAC Beachcroft has published its response to the Department for Transport (DfT)’s short paper on modernising vehicle standards , as part of a wider series of consultations concerning the government’s Future of Transport Regulatory Review, which…
New year, new public procurement thresholds By Katherine Calder Changes to public procurement thresholds will come into force on 1 January 2022 by virtue of The Public Procurement (Agreement on Government Procurement) (Thresholds) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations). The Regulations affect the…
