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ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained.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.

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 23 March 2022. For the most recent horizon scanner, reference should be made to PI and Clinical Negligence horizon scanning—overview. CPR updates Small claims limit for non-road traffic accident personal injury claims rising from £1,000 to £1,500 The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2022 is amending the small claims limit for non-road traffic accident personal injury claims from £1,000 to £1,500. It comes into force on 6 April 2022. See: LNB News 04/02/2022 42. CPR changes and 140th practice direction update Upcoming Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) changes, provided for by the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2022, SI 2022/101 will come into force on 6 April 2022. The rules will amend CPR 2 (definitions), CPR 10 (acknowledgment of service), CPR 12 (default judgments), CPR 26 (small claims track limit), CPR 39 (anonymisation), CPR 47 (authorised costs officers) and

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 1 July 2022. For the most recent horizon scanner, reference should be made to PI and Clinical Negligence horizon scanning—overview. Key PI & Clinical Negligence developments Sixteenth edition of the Judicial College Guidelines is published The 16th edition of the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG) has been published over two years after the publication of the 15th edition. The JCG is usually the starting point for practitioners and courts when valuing general damages for personal injury and clinical negligence claims. The figures in the sixteenth edition reflect the general increase in inflation since the last edition. See: LNB News 11/04/2022 2. MoJ reports approved amendments to Low Value Personal Injury Pre-action Protocol The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has reported the approved amendments to the Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury (Employers’ Liability and Public Liability) Claims

This Practice Note comprises two elements intended to assist dispute resolution practitioners in keeping up to date with developments in case law that affect their practice area, or which impact civil litigation procedure generally: • selected forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court are noted below; see Key forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court—2022 • summaries of the key appeal cases in England and Wales (ie decisions of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and, where relevant, some judgments of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Court of Justice of the European Union), and ECtHR, which we have reported; see: Key forthcoming appeal cases—2022 This content can be browsed through the table of contents in the left margin. Alternatively, this tracker can be searched using [CTRL]+[F]. This content is not intended to provide an exhaustive list of all appeals or key decisions relevant to dispute resolution practitioners. Key forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court—2022 Topics Case name and date of appeal, where known Details of appeal Further information/reading Tort