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US Tax Reform a Modest Positive for US Equities & Dollar?

9th January 2018
The estimated total corporate tax benefit of $74 billion per year is not a game-changer according to Alastair George, Chief Investment Strategist at Edison Investment, who below explains to Lawyer Monthly how the tax reform may in fact result in quite a modest positive for US equities. The prospective headline cut to the US corporate […]
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Intel CPU Issues Just Made Your Entire Systems Vulnerable

9th January 2018
A serious design flaw reportedly present in all Intel’s CPUs made in the past ten years is leaving devices vulnerable to hackers, requiring an operating system (OS) update in order to fix it – and it has been reported that ARM and AMD are also at risk. The Meltdown flaw allegedly affects all systems running […]
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Compass CEO Death: What Happens to the Estate?

9th January 2018
The end of 2017 brought the tragic news about the death of Compass CEO Richard Cousins and his entire immediate family in a seaplane crash in Sydney. While on a holiday in Australia on New Year’s Eve, their flight crashed near Sydney Harbour. Australian police described it as a ‘tragic accident’ according to reports. Below […]
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Lana Del Rey Vs Radiohead Copyright Infringement Explained

8th January 2018
American singer Lana Del Rey has confirmed that Radiohead is suing her over allegations that Get Free, the closing track from her most recent album ‘Lust for Life’, is a copy of their breakthrough single ‘Creep’. The weekend saw rumours spread over the legal action taking place until it was confirmed on twitter by the […]
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Andrew Walker QC Becomes Chair of the Bar

8th January 2018
Andrew Walker QC has become Chair of the Bar, taking over from outgoing Chair, Andrew Langdon QC, to lead the Bar Council, the representative body for barristers in England & Wales. The new Chair, of Maitland Chambers, was called to the Bar in 1991 and took silk in 2011. His professional practice is focused on […]
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Here’s 3 of 2017’s News Stories That Shone a Spotlight on the Law

8th January 2018
2016 was dominated by news of Trump and Brexit. While those two political issues have remained firmly on the news agenda, this year’s front pages have also been dominated by terrorist attacks, high-profile harassment claims, and catastrophic weather phenomenon. Virtually each story and event, both large and small, has brought an area of law into […]
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10 Shocking Courtroom Outbursts Caught on Camera

8th January 2018
The courtroom has been the basis for dramatic movies and television, and for good reason. There is a lot of drama that takes place in a court of law where tensions are high and the lives of accused people hang in the balance of justice. This is why it shouldn’t be a big surprise that […]
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EU Commission Pushing Forward on Tax & VAT Administration Progress

5th January 2018
The European Commission has recently published a series of recommendations for Member States on how to better work together towards better direct tax and VAT collection for national budgets. It’s calling on Member States to continue working together for more efficient tax collection and to better fight tax fraud and avoidance. In particular, the results […]
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2018 Law Review: What’s On the Agenda?

5th January 2018
On behalf of Lawyer Monthly, Richard Thomas, Partner at Cardiff and London based commercial law firm Capital Law, looks at what legal changes will be sweeping administrations in 2018. GDPR European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the result of four year’s work by the EU to bring legislation in line with the new ways that data […]
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Everything You Need to Know About Ransomware

4th January 2018
Under GDPR, businesses could be fined tens of millions of pounds for data breaches. Security researchers have suggested that Ransomware could increase under GDPR, as hackers tempt you to pay their smaller ransom, as opposed to the eye-watering GDPR fines.   (Source: Technology Services group)
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