Most property deals start with heads of terms.

Six year battle confirms that human rights is a legitimate charitable objective

Disclosure is a critical phase in litigation during which the parties provide documents to one another and the court that are relevant to the case.

The new Unexplained Wealth Orders regime came into force on Wednesday 31 January 2018.

Diversity and inclusion are high on the agenda of many employers, and rightly so. Not only is there an undisputed moral argument for diversity,

The BBC is also facing the prospect of lawsuits from female employees who believe they have been paid less than men for doing the same jobs.

Recent media and parliamentary scrutiny has brought the utility and enforceability of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) into sharp focus. Recently, a parliamentary inquiry prompted by the Harvey...

The Government has launched consultation on proposed changes to the Sex Discrimination Act (<B>"SDA"</B>), expected to be implemented on 1 October 2005. In this month's briefing, we highlight the main changes. We also report on a recent Court of Appeal case which focused on whether employees are entitled to holiday pay under the Working Time Regulations when they are on long-term sick leave.

With the first annual reporting window having closed on 4 April 2018, we look at how the life sciences sector has fared in the first year of mandatory gender pay gap reporting.

Whilst the debate around no fault divorce in England is interesting from a domestic perspective, a rather more important question is whether our matrimonial finance laws ...

A recent Channel 4 documentary "4 Men 175 Babies: The UK's Super Sperm Donors" told the stories of four men who had collectively conceived more than 175 babies ...

The FCA has fined Vanquis Bank ("Vanquis"), £1.97m (including a stage 1 settlement discount of 30%) and required it to pay restitution to clients estimated at around £11.87m.

In a Decision Notice dated 22 January 2016 the FCA's Regulatory Decisions Committee (RDC) determined that, whilst not dishonest, Arif Hussein, formerly a derivatives trader at UBS...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has recently published its Business Plan 2018/19, which sets out its priorities for the coming year.

In a rare intervention in relation to inventive step, the Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court decision of Mr Justice Birss in relation to ICOS/Lilly's tadalafil 5mg dosage regimen patent.

Colour combination marks also faced difficulties in 2017, and it is not yet apparent whether things will be more straightforward under the EUTM reform package.

The relative ease of cross border enforcement is one of the distinguishing features of arbitration.

Without this discount, the fine would have been £49,320,000.

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On 25 April 2018, the Upper Tribunal in UK Innovative TI Limited v Financial Conduct Authority [2018] UT 0136 (TCC) ruled on a novel third party rights case.