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Office of Tax Simplification publishes recommendations to simplify inheritance tax

Aidan Grant summarises the key proposals

British Airways facing record GDPR fine

Comment from Head of Intellectual Property and Data Protection, Patrick Wheeler

Protecting crypto consumers from themselves?

Nigel Brahams comments on FCA proposals to ban financial instruments linked to cryptocurrencies

AI: It’s time to ExplAIn

The ICO and The Turing Institute create Project ExplAIn, offering organisations guidance in explaining AI

Overview of the UK Gig economy

Employment law embraces the challenges

Lewis Chessman: Ivory rare discovery

Andrew Mason discusses the recent discovery of a medieval chess piece in relation to the Ivory Act 2018

A bank’s Quincecare duty of care

The Commercial Court recently refused a bank’s application to strike out on the basis it owed a Quincecare duty of care

UK Supreme Court considers ‘ordinary reader of Facebook’ in Defamation claim

Court of Appeal held that judge erred in law by using Oxford English dictionary definition of a word

The Rose Report: navigating funding options

Jeff Roberts and Valentina Falicheva look at funding options available to female entrepreneurs

Major banks fined over €1bn for FX spot trading cartel

Robin Henry and Gurpreet Chhokar report on the European Commission fines

Cryptocurrencies enlisted in the sanctions war

Robin Henry, Simon De Broise and Adam Solomon consider how cryptocurrencies could reduce the financial impact of sanctions

Why GDPR isn’t last year’s news

Howard Ricklow and Cécile de Lagarde present a webinar on GDPR and property

The National Minimum Wage

Tania Goodman looks into what housebuilders need to know about the National Minimum Wage

English court refuses permission to turn over witness statements to FBI

Robin Henry and Jean-Martin Louw consider the ruling of the High Court in ACL Netherlands BV & Ors v Lynch & Hussain

Zero hours contracts in the Construction industry

Sinead Kelly outlines what to look out for when using zero-hours contracts

The 10 million dollar ‘handshake’

Grace Waterhouse comments on the importance of written contracts in the art world

Q&A: My father has left his home to me and my siblings. What will it...

James Cook answers a reader's question in The Sunday Times

Social media should be responsible for libels

Steven Heffer comments on the trend of social media libel cases

European Antiques Market Threatened by New Regulation

A look at the new regulation on the import of cultural goods from outside the EU into the Union

English court denies claim by foreign software giant to enforce US judgment

Insight into the decision of The High Court which declined to allow the enforcement of damages issued by a US District Court

Co-living schemes appeal to all ages

Insight into latest report by the Social Market Foundation

Court of Appeal decides litigation privilege does not apply in first televised appeal

In West Ham v E20 [2018] EWCA Civ 2652 the Court of Appeal held that internal discussions between board members were not covered by litigation privilege

First Tower Trustee Ltd v CDS

The impact of the CoA decision for businesses considering a claim against their bank for misrepresentation

CLO Manager not entitled to Incentive Fee on optional redemption

Robin Henry and Gurpreet Chhokar consider the recent High Court decision around the optional redemption of a collateralised loan obligation securitisation

Air crash investigator report into Ethiopian Airlines crash – financial implications for Boeing?

Simon de Broise comments on the implications for Boeing in regards to the Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302.

Estate agents- get your contract in place before you start work

In the case of Wells v Devani [2019] UKSC 1106 the Supreme Court clarifies the law around oral contracts

Home ownership now comes later in life

The ONS reports that young adults are waiting eight years longer to get onto the housing ladder compared to two decades ago.

Do payment processors wield too much power?

Was Flybe's alarming decline exacerbated by its credit card processing provider?

Court of Appeal confirms bank’s wide discretion in determining “fair market value” for ‘repo’ trades...

Insight into the recent decision in LBI EHF v Raiffeisen Bank International AG

One in a million? No, you’re only one in five.

One in five people aged 65+ has wealth of more than £1m. What's the IHT liability?

‘Strexit’- dealing with workplace, stress, depression and anxiety

Sinead Kelly looks at factors leading to workplace stress

Drone related incidents – The costs for airlines

Simon De Broise comments on the impact of the Gatwick drone delay

Proceed with caution when offering professional advice as a favour

High Court rules that architect who offered garden redesign advice to friends did not act negligently.

Dear Santa…A Cautionary Data Privacy Tale

There's no magical way to avoid GDPR

The “Good Work Plan” heralds a new round of employment law reform for employers

A new round of employment law reform is upon us.

Are robots writing your will?

Can Artificial Intelligence work effectively in law firms?

Taking tax online?

Comments on report from the Office for Tax Simplification

Could a property ‘Logbook’ speed up the conveyancing process?

Aimee Stevens comments on the idea of introducing a property logbook for residential property.

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