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The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has published its annual frozen assets reporting notice for 2026. The notice sets out the...
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced its formal transition to the Information Commission under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025...
National Trading Standards (NTS) has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) Scam Watchlist, based on NTS intelligence and insight from across the...
The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has amended General Licence INT/2025/7363752. The amendment adds regulations 17A (investments...
What is a solicitor's undertaking?An undertaking is a commitment by a solicitor to do something. It can be enforced against the solicitor by the...
In what circumstances might a solicitor be able to contact another lawyer's client directly?The current SRA Standards and Regulations (STaR) are...
SRA Code of Conduct for individuals and firmsThis Practice Note provides guidance on the SRA Codes of Conduct, contained in the SRA Standards and...
Acting for yourself, friends and familyThis Practice Note covers considerations where a law firm wishes to act for one of its own partners or...
Acting for yourself, friends and familyThis Practice Note covers considerations where a law firm wishes to act for one of its own partners or employees, where an individual lawyer wishes to represent or act for themselves, and for your lawyers representing or advising others in a personal
Priority between loss reliefs in loss making companiesWhy does it matter?A company that is a member of a group and has incurred any of the types of losses available for surrender by way of group relief may, without any further rules, have more than one way in which to use the loss. There are a
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some point
Strike out—making an application to strike out a statement of caseA strike out order can be made either following an application by the parties or on the court's own initiative. This Practice Note deals with the scenario of the order being made following a party's application.Making an application
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