Norton Rose – With the Royal wedding of Prince Harry and Hollywood star Meghan Markle fast approaching, companies may be looking at leveraging the glamour of this event in their advertising and products and capitalising on the ‘Royal effect’. Off with their heads? The UK Royal family take protection of their intellectual property rights seriously.
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Moskowitz LLP In our recent blogs on the new Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Division (IRS-CI) priorities, we noted that new IRS-CI director John D. Fort has placed his department on high alert for tax fraud involving bitcoin and other digital currencies. Here, we discuss U.S. taxpayer noncompliance and various cryptocurrency tax schemes that are
The gig economy is a quickly developing labour market, defined by short-term contracts or freelance work. Workers in a gig economy get paid for the “gigs” they do, such as a food delivery or a car journey as opposed to a regular salary or wage. In the UK alone, 2.8 million people are estimated
MinterEllisonRuddWatts – Deciding whether to end an employment relationship on medical grounds can cause quite the headache for employers. Helpfully, drawing on existing cases, the Employment Court (Court) has confirmed the core principles to follow in medical incapacity situations in its recent decision in Lyttelton Port Company v Arthurs [2018] NZEmpC 9. Mr Arthurs had
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David Kaufman* The growth in demand for legal services in 2017, according to Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor, was stagnant. That compares to an ever increasing spike almost every year prior to the Great Recession. As a result of this sluggish market, the competition among law firms for instructions has been described as being “fierce.” Law
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Climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy are top of the political agenda and present a range of challenges for businesses. We help clients to future-proof their businesses and identify risks and opportunities. EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan – What you need to know The European Commission recently unveiled its strategy for
Hogan Lovells – At last week’s IBA War and Justice Conference, ICC judge Howard Morrison said that international criminal law must develop to accommodate the changing nature of atrocities and the changing nature of conflict. One example is to prosecute the perpetrators of massive environmental damage, including damage connected to business activity. This is consistent
The High Court has revisited the recoverability of a target company’s expenses for the first time in more than 45 years. The case has important implications for future reimbursement disputes. Recovery of “properly incurred” takeover expenses An offeror must reimburse the target company for any expenses that the target properly incurs in relation to a
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CMS Law – The House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (“Lords”) has published a report that puts ethics at the centre of the use and development of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) within the UK. AI continues to develop in the UK, due to the growth of available data, computer-processing power and improved techniques such
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Norton Rose – On 26 April 2018, the Bank of England (BoE) published a speech by Alex Brazier (Executive Director for Financial Stability and Risk, BoE) that discusses some of the hidden risks in the market. Mr Brazier explains that there are generally two types of hidden risk which he calls “bears” and “icebergs”. The
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