In and amongst tomorrow’s autumn budget announcement from UK Chancellor Philip Hammond, questions have been raised regarding housing, property and first-time buyers. The Help to Buy scheme is set to end in 2020, that’s just over two years away. So what does the future of the UK property conundrum look like? This week’s Your Thoughts […]
The House of Lords Constitution Committee has warned that the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill, the first Brexit Bill to be scrutinised by the House of Lords, contains inappropriately broad powers for ministers. The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill is intended to provide a new, long-term legal basis for ministers to make secondary legislation concerning […]
As Phillip Hammond gets ready for the Budget, experts at BDO expect few giveaways or surprises as the Chancellor builds a Brexit war chest to prepare for the uncertainty to come. Paul Falvey, a tax partner at accountancy and business advisory firm BDO, says: “Hammond’s hands are not only tied by Brexit uncertainty, they are […]
In 2015, Prime Minister, David Cameron vowed to “end the gender pay gap in a generation”. In April this year, the government set out new rules forcing every company that employs more than 250 people to publish their pay differences by April 2018. This new legislation followed from Iceland, after it was announced that the […]
Supplying rebels in Yemen with missiles was “direct military aggression by the Iranian regime,” declared Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz last week. Following this statement, Girish Thanki, solicitor at Stuart Miller, has provided Lawyer Monthly with a short breakdown of the current conflict and the situation in the middle east between Iran […]
Delivering missiles to rebels in Yemen was deemed a "direct military aggression by the Iranian regime," by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz last week. Below Joel Rubin, a Visiting Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, had this to say to lawyer Monthly: Iran’s ‘Act […]
From 25th May next year all UK businesses – big or small – will need to comply with strict new regulations around how they collect, store and use personal information as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the current data protection directive. However, despite the GDPR’s two-year transition period which began in May […]
The Bar has confounded decades of critics and doomsayers through fearlessness and competition for excellence, Chair of the Bar Andrew Langdon QC told the 32nd Annual Bar and Young Bar Conference last week. The Chair’s full speech is available here. As over 500 guests and speakers gathered in central London today for the Bar’s flagship […]
From benefits to IT, government systems are what keep society together, but they’re not always as effective as they are intended to be. Here Stephen Norman, author of Trading Down, to be released on November 9th, delves into some prime examples of government systems and the development, management and gears behind them. 2nd Oct 2017: […]
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