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Lexis®PSL Commercial weekly highlights—5 February 2015

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Published on: 05 February 2015
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Table of contents

  • Headlines (News updates & analysis)
  • Companies: Companies House makes error with name of company
  • Competition law: FCA prepares for new competition powers
  • Contracts: government consulting on powers to challenge unfair payment terms
  • Contracts: High Court considers dispute about termination clause
  • Contracts: High Court considers terms in mortgage agreement
  • Contracts: High Court considers rectification claim
  • Data protection: drones and data privacy
  • Dispute resolution: amassing mass litigation
  • Financial services: FCA decides not to change its approach to crowdfunding regulation

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Article summary

Welcome to the weekly Commercial highlights from the Lexis®PSL Commercial team for the week ending 5 February 2015. This week’s edition of Commercial highlights includes reporting on key current awareness, news analysis and including links to our weekly consultation, cases and legislation trackers which respectively track consultations and cases of note for commercial lawyers and changes to legislation and significant bills through Parliament. We are also reporting on new materials published this week and materials which we have updated.

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