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Warsaw, Sofia, Prague, London, Kyiv, Hong Kong and 7 more

John Armstrong

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Technology.

Position

Information technology, outsourcing and data protection specialist acting for public sector and large multinational clients; recently acted for BP, Royal Mail, and the National Grid, as well as the Science Museum, Lloyds TSB, Yell, and Amazon.co.uk.

Career

Trained Stephenson Harwood; qualified 1984; assistant solicitor Pickering Kenyon 1984-86; CMS Cameron McKenna 1986; partner 1990.

Member

Society for Computers and Law; City of London Law Society (Commercial Law Committee).

Education

Southdowns College 1976-78; Southampton University (1981 LLB Hons); College of Law, Guildford (1982 Law Society Professional Exam Pt II).

Leisure

Horse riding, swimming.

Practice Areas

Electronic commerce; Intellectual property; Information technology

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Access to justice: protective costs orders in planning challenges

Third parties and competing developers have no rights of appeal to the Secretary of State against planning decisions. Disappointed applicants can appeal to the Secretary of State and can have the merits of the application reconsidered. The only remedy available to a disappointed third party is a challenge by way of judicial review in the High Court on a point of law. The sense of frustration and disempowerment this creates has not been helped by the increasing complexity of the planning process and the use of consultation to legitimise decisions that many perceive may already have been taken.

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Applications for Concluding Advance Pricing Agreements

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Extension of amnesty for late payment of tax liabilities

In November 2011 the Cyprus Parliament enacted a law allowing for a partial write-off of interest and penalties on overdue tax liabilities of companies and individuals in respect of tax years up to and including 2008.

- Andreas Neocleous & Co
AIFM Directive - Analysis highlights Commission divergence from ESMA level 2 proposals.

The Alternative Investment Management Association has published an analysis of the divergences it has identified between the European Commission's draft Level 2 regulation implementing the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and the technical advice provided to the Commission last November by the European Securities and Markets Authority.

- Chevalier & Sciales
HOUSING

In Nzinga Maswaku v Westminster City Council [2012] EWCA Civ 669 the Court of Appeal clarified that in offering a homeless person with alternative temporary accommodation the local authority is obliged to point that if the offer is refused it has discharged its Part VII duties under the Housing Act 1996.

- 11KBW
UK Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs): A new opportunity for Jersey?

The 2012 UK Budget confirmed that, following a consultation period, changes to the current UK REIT regime are expected to be introduced in the third quarter of 2012.

- Carey Olsen
Public Procurement 2012

Norway is a member of the European Economic Area (“the EEA”), and a party to the EEA agreement. Through the EEA agreement Norway has implemented EU legislation on, inter alia, public procurement.

- Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS
SPCs for medicinal products – the opinion of the Advocate General in the Neurim case

On 3rd May 2012, Advocate General Verica Trstenjak issued her opinion in case C-130/11, also known as the Neurim case. Should the Court of Justice choose to accept the findings of the opinion, it will improve the possibility for the pharmaceutical industry in Europe to obtain SPCs for medicinal products.

- Advokatfirmaet Grette DA
Latest developments in planning and zoning

In Le Temps, the daily newspaper of reference of Western Switzerland, Yves de Coulon analyses the latest developments in the field of planning and zoning: Weber Initiative, Landscape Initiative, recent modifications of the Federal Law on planning and zoning, what consequences on the cantons' autonomy in the area of planning and zoning?

- BCCC Attorneys-at-law LLC
Revocation and Replacement of Minister of Trade Regulation on Import of Finished Goods and the...

Issuance of Licensed Importer Numbers

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Lump Sum taxation

The head of our tax practice group, partner Dominique Christin, summarises the legal requirements to obtain a lump sum taxation status in Switzerland and in the cantons of Geneva and Vaud.

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