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The first decision relates to information provided to Lloyds Bank shareholders in a circular giving information about the HBOS acquisition and recommending them to vote in favour of it.

As reported in the third edition of Market reCap, Professor Kay's final report (published in July 2012) concluded that short-termism is a problem in UK equity markets.

It is common for certain rights of a franchisee under a franchise agreement to be exercisable only if the franchisor gives its consent.

The much anticipated decision in the case involving equal rights in pension schemes for civil partners and same sex spouses was handed down by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

On 19 October 2011, we issued an update detailing the Court of Appeal decision that pension schemes will, in some cases, have to be paid before floating chargeholders, preferential creditors, unsecured creditors and even the administrators themselves, where companies become insolvent.

In a landmark case, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has overturned a previous Employment Tribunal decision that denied compensation to ex-employees of Woolworths who had worked in stores with less than 20 members of staff.

The European Court of Justice ruled on 19 December 2012 that the obligation on self-employed service providers not established in Belgium to submit a notification before carrying out any services in Belgium is contrary to the freedom to provide services (art. 56 TFEU).

New planning guidance has recently been issued by the Department for Communities and Local Government for onshore oil and gas developments, including shale gas and coal bed methane.

On 7 November 2013, the regulators Ofgem and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that after conducting their review they had found no evidence of gas market manipulation following allegations by a former employee of ICIS-Heren (an energy price reporting agency).

The English Court of Appeal issued a judgement on 14 March 2013 in the case of Lehman Brothers International v Lehman Brothers Finance SA EWCA Civ 188.

Following an internal review, ARM identified three related party transactions involving its subsidiary, PT Berau Coal Energy TbK.

Most of the City are well aware of the ratings downgrades imposed on a number of UK clearing and other banks earlier this year, indeed a number of those reading this note will work in affected institutions.

UCITS V is essentially a reaction to Madoff but it addresses what was really a latent problem waiting to come to the fore.

UWO are to be targeted at politically exposed persons and those suspected of involvement in serious crime whether in the UK or elsewhere.

For those of us with long experience of this industry, we may be dismayed that the scenarios which arose in the Woodford Fund saga have occurred again.

Fieldfisher hosted a webinar with representatives from the UK Investment Security Unit and our own European FDI partners on the latest trends in FDI enforcement. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-image: initial;

Since 28 July 2016, all types of artistic works (including artistic craftsmanship) now have copyright protection for the life of the creator plus 70 years.