This article has been written by Andrea Wallack, CEO and Founder of NightOwl Discovery. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is scheduled to come into force on 25 May 2018. It will apply to all companies worldwide that process the personal data of European Union (EU) citizens –tightening the rules for obtaining valid consent for using […]
It has been reported investors now own £483 billion pounds of commercial property in the UK, representing 55% of the combined total. Not only is this the highest value to date, but it exceeds the previous peak reached prior to the global financial crisis in 2008. Previously, UK institutions such as insurance companies and pension […]
Last week UK PM Theresa May announced a snap general election set for June 2017, to "guarantee certainty and security.” Since 2011, parliamentary terms state calls to election every five years and, even before this, elections were commonly only called by prime ministers every four or so years. This announcement came on the back of […]
The ECJ recently handed down its judgment in relation to the long running cases in Belgium (Achibita v G4S) and France (Bougnaoui v ADDH). These high-profile cases focussed on whether bans on religious symbols constituted as direct or indirect discrimination. Michael Farrelly, employment lawyer at Excello Law, here gives Lawyer Monthly a run down on […]
As the UK’s Gender Pay Gap reporting legislation recently came into force, Suzanne Horne, Head of the International Employment Law Practice at Paul Hastings, explains to Lawyer Monthly the potential effectiveness of the new rules and the implementation thereof. Whilst the gender pay gap will rightly shine a light on gender pay, the incoming regulations leave a lot […]
By Anthony Robinson, Excello Law. WikiLeaks’s latest dump of 9,000 CIA files revealed that US spies, in collusion with British intelligence services, had, as well as targeting smartphones and computers, developed a programme called Weeping Angel, which is allegedly able to turn a television set into a monitoring device – even when it appears to […]
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