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The annual Budget is normally fairly uneventful and is seen by many as often being pretty dull. However, the Budget 2016 was anything but dull, or uneventful, as it contained some surprises, and even caused a complete furore in Parliament with the subsequent resignation of Ian Duncan Smith over cuts to Disability Benefits. Here Lawyer […]
As a way of celebrating women, this year’s International Women’s Day’s focus is on highlighting the combat for ending gender inequalities in the work place by promoting diversity and equal pay for female workers. The upcoming draft Gender Pay Gap Information Regulations 2016 is aiming to encourage employers to take action against unequal treatment and […]
Here we look further into the challenges facing In-house and General Counsel by speaking exclusively to Dónall Crehan, General Counsel to all3Media, a group of 21 leading production companies around the world, who operate as independent creators of TV and multi-platform programming and are creative and commercial leaders in their markets. Q: As General Counsel […]
Cyber breaches and insider threats, which include malicious employees stealing, manipulating or destroying data, are the fastest-growing risks for UK companies according to EY’s 2016 Global Forensic Data Analytics Survey, Shifting into high gear: mitigating risks and demonstrating returns. The survey was conducted with 665 executives globally across nine industry sectors, including financial services, […]
As the Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Bill nears the end of its legislative journey, the Charity Commission is set to get a windfall of new powers. The origins of the Bill date back nearly two and a half years and, in spite of considerable consultation, charity law experts are still concerned that certain provisions […]
Azad Ali is the newest partner in the European law firm’s Financial Services Regulatory practice as of 1st February 2016. Prior to joining Fieldfisher, Azad was a counsel in the Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory Group at Sherman & Sterling, having worked for the firm in the past 11 years. Advising banks, broker-dealers, […]
It was recently announced that the UK government is calling for migrants to have to wait four years before they can claim tax credits, in a bid to reduce immigration. To find out how feasible this is, and what impact it would have on Immigration Law, Lawyer Monthly speaks to Katie Harris, Solicitor at Mackrell […]
The European Union’s competition commissioner continues to take on industrial Goliaths, part of a renewed EU push to keep the continent’s markets open and competitive for Davids to thrive as well. Commissioner Margarethe Vestager’s focus on American technology giants, such as Google and Qualcomm, and other stalwarts like McDonald’s, has drawn accusations of an anti-U.S. […]
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