Companies and their directors are subject to a panoply of legal requirements under the Companies Act 2006 and other legislation.

Following Royal Assent for The Crime and Courts Act 2013 on 25 April 2013, DPAs are set to be introduced from February 2014.

The Financial Conduct Authority has successfully prosecuted two individuals for insider dealing, one for passing on inside information he acquired at work and the other for trading on the basis...

For nearly 30 years we have been scratching our heads over the vexed question of whether guaranteed minimum pensions (GMPs) need to be equalised – and the even more vexed question of how this might be done

Unlawful cartels almost always come to the attention of the authorities as a result of whistle-blowing: either by an individual (ex)employee or by one of the cartelists themselves seeking immunity from fines.

A new article written by Employment Partner Stefan Nerinckx has just been published in Forum, the legal journal of the prestigious European Academy of Law...

The greater amount of fracking in the USA and its perceived litigation culture has already generated many class action and other lawsuits for compensation, but that is unlikely to be experienced here.

Scottish Energy Minister, Fergus Ewing, announced the formal consent to two adjacent offshore wind farm applications in the outer Moray Firth.

In our last edition we commented on the risk that default interest under a loan agreement may be unenforceable as being penal.

Today, news broke that baby Arthur Morgan is the first to receive ground-breaking gene therapy treatment Zolgensma®, reimbursed by the NHS.

We see that Sir Ivan Rogers, Britain's ambassador to the EU, is reported as saying that it could take until the mid-2020s to get a UK-EU trade deal in place.

A recent English case at the Court of Appeal illustrates the need to spend the necessary time documenting precisely what has been agreed or, where that is just not possible, ensuring that those involved understand the need for further work to be undertaken to conclude an agreement.

The UT observed that the question of whether a person is trading is essentially a question of fact, and that it should not interfere unless compelled to do so.

On 14 January 2016, vice president of Content Delivery Architecture at Netflix, David Fullagar, announced that "while the company would continue to break down borders in order to offer content to the broadest possible audience...

Ofcom has recently published a final statement in relation to current market power in the UK broadcast transmission services market.

This week Sky and BT paid over £5bn to the Premier League for its live domestic broadcasting rights in a three year deal.

Governments the world over have been ramping up their digital agendas in recent months, each seeking to instil the importance of cyber security on citizens and businesses alike.

FFW has updated its cookie consent tracking table to reflect the latest developments in implementation of the new cookie consent rule across Europe.

Shifting consumer habits and seemingly inexhaustible developments in technology for the masses mean that businesses now have access to information about how their customers tick as never before.

The period within which a judicial review challenge to the grant of planning permission may be made is to be reduced from the current three month period to six weeks.