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Welcome to the latest edition of our newsletter, which explores recent competition law developments across the UK and EU.

In its final form, the Act did not create the "bonfire" of EU-derived legislation that was originally envisaged. Nonetheless, this remains an important piece of legislation...

On 10 January 2025, Interpol published its first Silver Notice: a request from Italy seeking information on assets belonging to an individual alleged to be a member of an organised crime group.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority is investigating Ticketmaster for potential consumer law breaches, focusing on its "dynamic pricing" practices for Oasis tour tickets. The CMA is reviewing transparency, fair practices, and compliance.

Institutional investors are suing Boohoo Group plc for breaching the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 by failing to disclose low wages at supplier factories, leading to significant share price declines and investor losses.

On 30 October 2024, the Chancellor presented the long-awaited UK Autumn 2024 Budget – Labour's first Budget in 14 years.

The High Court has dismissed a judicial review application by ClientEarth to challenge a decision of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to approve a prospectus...

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published a short review of structured financial reporting by companies admitted to regulated markets in the UK...

The UK has taken another step forward with its plans to modernise stamp taxes on shares (effectively replacing Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (SDRT) with a new tax).

Share buybacks can be an important tool for shareholders to extract value and for companies to remove shareholders.

Whilst the saga of "Mr Bates v The Post Office" and the controversy regarding the abuse of private prosecutions continues to reverberate, the recent decision of The King...

In the recent decision in Hamblin v Moorwand [2025] EWHC 817 (Ch), the High Court allowed the victims of an authorised push payment (APP) fraud to assert a derivative...

Welcome to this month's briefing for HR teams and in-house employment counsel – bringing you this month's employment law highlights in an easy-to-read package.

This briefing examines three recent court cases that challenge conventional approaches to post-termination restrictions, revealing critical vulnerabilities in how employers draft non-competes, training clawback clauses, and group company protections. The analysis explores when these restrictions cross the line from legitimate business protection into unenforceable restraint of trade, with particular focus on probationary periods, indirect restrictions through repayment schemes...

In one of the most widely-debated judgments of recent years, the Supreme Court has ruled that the word "sex", for the purposes of the Equality Act, means a person's biological sex.

The Government has recently published amendments to the Pension Schemes Bill, including new proposed provisions to remedy potential issues raised by the Court of Appeal decision...