A few days after we wrote about wide-ranging changes to European data protection law coming into force in May 2018, under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the UK government published a statement of intent regarding plans to introduce a UK Data Protection Bill.
Read moreLawyers do sometimes make life difficult for themselves. Let's take lease classification as an example. The same lease may be variously described as a concurrent lease, a lease of the reversion and an overriding lease, sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly, and, to complicate matters further, there are also reversionary leases, which may be leases of the reversion.
Read moreIn 2017, it is Bitcoin that is back in the news.
Read moreHaving previously advised that only postal applications would be accepted, HMRC’s website has now revised its guidance to confirm that notifications of options to tax land and buildings can be submitted to an email address ([email protected]) as well as by fax or post.
Read moreThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted at the EU level in April 2016 and will replace the current UK Data Protection Act 1998 on 25 May 2018.
Read moreIn a typical commercial property transaction, the seller/ landlord will provide the buyer/ tenant with replies to CPSEs, and often, replies to additional enquiries.
Read moreIn May we advised on the changes to the UK's existing 'People with Significant Control' (PSC) regime.
Read moreThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has updated its subject access code of practice to reflect developments in Court of Appeal judgments given in early 2017.
Read moreWhen, in September 2015, Private Eye published their online map of properties in England and Wales owned by overseas companies, few would have suspected that ...
Read moreArticle 30 of the Fourth Money Laundering Directive, which relates to beneficial ownership of corporate and other legal entities, will bring about changes to the UK's existing 'People with Significant Control' (PSC) regime.
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