This week's edition of Corporate Crime weekly highlights includes analysis of the effectiveness of the British jury system, of how the digitalisation of the global financial industry and acceleration of the use of new technologies has led to the proliferation of various new types of financial crime and of government plans to nullify non-disclosure agreements that prevent victims from reporting potential crimes. Also included is news of updates to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2020 which have come into force, of two successful Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) prosecutions and of an increase in the hourly recovery rate for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under the Fee for Intervention regime. All this, and more, in this week’s Corporate Crime highlights.

This week's edition of Corporate Crime weekly highlights includes analysis of an EU court ruling which considered whether a notary breaches EU sanctions on Russia when authenticating the sale of a property owned by a Russian firm. Also included is news of the government’s update on the implementation of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, of Defra’s policy statement on the Water (Special Measures) Bill which sets out how the provisions in the Bill are intended to be applied, of the first individual charged by the FCA for running illegal crypto ATMs and of an update to the UK’s Russia sanctions relating to the provision of legal advisory services. All this, and more, in this week’s Corporate Crime highlights.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the In-house weekly highlights, a curated summary of news analysis and new content from across the legal landscape. These highlights focus on key risk & compliance, commercial, corporate, information law and employment developments that will be relevant to most in-house lawyers.

Welcome to the 3 April 2025 highlights from the Immigration team, which provides links to key news stories from the last week, as well as a round-up of new and updated content in Immigration.

This Practice Note focuses on the disclosure requirements applicable on and from 6 April 2014 to occupational and personal pension schemes under the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2013, SI 2013/2734 (the 2013 Disclosure Regulations). For information on the disclosure requirements applicable outside of the 2013 Disclosure Regulations, see Practice Note: Event-specific disclosure requirements for occupational and personal pension schemes. For information on the disclosure requirements that were applicable before 6 April 2014 to occupational and personal pension schemes, see Practice Notes: Occupational pension schemes—disclosure requirements before 6 April 2014 (ARCHIVED) and Personal pension schemes—disclosure requirements before 6 April 2014 [Archived]. In this Practice Note, any reference to 'trustees' includes, in the context of a contract-based scheme, the managers of the scheme. Introduction of new disclosure regime from 6 April 2014 The 2013 Disclosure Regulations came into force on 6 April 2014 and consolidate the disclosure requirements previously contained in: • the Occupational Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 1996, SI 1996/1655—repealed, and • the Personal Pension

This week's edition of Corporate Crime weekly highlights includes analysis of whether the introduction of deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) has been a success and of the government’s response to the Law Commission’s report on reforming the SARs regime. Also included is news of the key criminal justice announcements from the Spring Budget 2024, of the Attorney General’s updated guidelines on disclosure, of the recent conviction of a former Ministry of Defence official by the Serious Fraud Office and of the commencement of new and enhanced powers for Companies House under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023. All this, and more, in this week’s Corporate Crime highlights.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes MEPs testing waters before commencing motion of censure against the Commission, EU Regulation on European data governance being published in the Official Journal, the Council of the EU and European Parliament agreeing on provisional law for minimum wages and ACER initiating the drafting of new framework guidelines on demand response. The highlights further include ECON publishing draft reports on CRR III and CRD VI proposals, the EU General Court dismissing an application to annul the Banco Popular resolution scheme, the Court of Justice decision in HEITEC AG v HEITECH Promotion GmbH and the EU reviewing the anti-dumping measures of tungsten carbide, fused tungsten carbide and tungsten carbide from China.

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. This Practice Note is a summary of the key legal developments of relevance to personal injury and clinical negligence practitioners as of 30 October 2023. For developments that pre-date this horizon scanner, reference should be made to PI and Clinical Negligence horizon scanning—overview. Key PI & Clinical negligence developments Minutes from Official Injury Claim Advisory Group’s 19 July 2023 meeting published The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published the minutes from the Official Injury Claim (OIC) Advisory Group’s meeting on 19 July 2023. Attendees included the Chair and Secretariat from the MoJ, OIC service operators from the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB), the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), Motor Accident Solicitors Society (MASS), Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL), Association of British Insurers (ABI) and HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS). In this meeting, the MIB provided an overview of the latest OIC data, information on filtering dormant claims and provided updates on user and member feedback. It also discussed

This week's edition of Banking and Finance weekly highlights includes: (1) the introduction of the Critical Benchmarks (References and Administrators’ Liability) Bill which aims to reduce uncertainty and litigation by clarifying that references to LIBOR in contracts include LIBOR published as synthetic LIBOR ; (2) the Insolvency Service announces that temporary insolvency restrictions are being lifted including the restrictions on winding-up petitions; and (3) HM Land Registry enables a pilot of Qualified Electronic Signatures with a small number of firms.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the In-house weekly highlights, a curated summary of news analysis and new content from across the legal landscape. These highlights focus on key risk & compliance, commercial, corporate, information law and employment developments that will be relevant to most in-house lawyers.

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. A significant restructuring of the UK listing regime came into effect on 29 July 2024 which included the removal of the premium and standard listing segments and the creation of a single listing category for equity shares in commercial companies. The commercial companies category is heavily disclosure-based and sits alongside other listing categories such as the shell companies, secondary listing and closed ended investment fund categories.  The UK Listing Rules sourcebook came into force to implement the changes and the Listing Rules sourcebook was revoked. For further information see Practice Note: Reform of the UK listing regime—fundamentals. This Resource Note reflects the listing regime prior to 29 July 2024 and has been retained for reference purposes. This Resource Note highlights relevant commentary, analysis and resources to assist with the interpretation of, and provide practical guidance on the application of, Chapter 11 of the former Listing Rules in force prior to 29 July 2024. Materials covered in this

This week's edition of Public Law weekly highlights includes further news on the general election including Bills passed by Parliament during wash-up and guidance for civil servants ahead of the election. It includes new regulations completing the commencement of REUL(RR)A 2023 and the new suite of guidance documents in relation to the Procurement Act 2023. Additionally featured are selected Brexit headlines on implications for Northern Ireland if UK left the ECHR and the latest Brexit SIs. This edition further includes updates on the general election, public procurement, constitutional and administrative law, State accountability and liability, equality and human rights and subsidy control and State aid. Cases this week include expert analysis on a decision concerning informative protesting outside court.