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octubre 2016

Leading by example

Leading by example

Workforce reforms feature heavily in Lord Carter of Coles’ recent hospital efficiency recommendations, and the NHS is facing huge pressure to reduce s ...

Subject access requests: disclosure of third party personal data without consent

Subject access requests: disclosure of third party personal data without consent

   

Employment tribunals: judicial assessment

Employment tribunals: judicial assessment

   

Liabilities arising from funding agreement caught by debts and trading liabilities exclusion

Liabilities arising from funding agreement caught by debts and trading liabilities exclusion

Impact Funding Solutions Limited v AIG Europe Insurance Ltd [2016] UKSC 57 In an appeal that raised a question of general public importance, the Supre ...

More problems on duties and causation for sophisticated clients

More problems on duties and causation for sophisticated clients

Cathal Anthony Lyons v Fox Williams LLP [2016] EWHC 2427 (QB) The High Court has today (25 October 2016) handed down its judgment in a significant and ...

Accountancy Newsletter October 2016

Accountancy Newsletter October 2016

DAC Beachcroft's Accountancy newsletter features topical news and insights for our clients and contacts.

The Illegality Defence – the new battleground (Accountants)

The Illegality Defence – the new battleground (Accountants)

In July 2016, a nine justice panel of the Supreme Court handed down judgment in Patel v Mirza [2016]. This is an important decision as it creates a wh ...

O'Hare judgment: financial advisers risk liability despite suitable advice

O'Hare judgment: financial advisers risk liability despite suitable advice

What must advisers do to ensure that their clients understand their advice and the risks of investments they recommend? And when does 'sales patter' o ...

Worth a gamble? Our analysis of the first court approved contingency fee agreement

Worth a gamble? Our analysis of the first court approved contingency fee agreement

In Bolt Burdon v Tariq & Ors [2016], we have the first case where a court has approved, and enforced, a pure contingency fee agreement (also calle ...

Is your appointment valid following a block transfer?

Is your appointment valid following a block transfer?

Recent cases we have been involved in have highlighted the need for Insolvency Practitioners to pay careful attention to the effect that block transfe ...