New EU Regulation on the provision of food information to consumers consolidates and updates two areas of labelling legislation into a single text.

The Intellectual Property Bill was introduced into Parliament on 9 May 2013, and now awaits Royal Assent before becoming law in the UK.

In the recent High Court case of Zambia -v- Meer Care & Desai (a firm) & Ors a judgment entered against a defendant for offences related to fraud and corruption was set aside partly as a result of the failure of the Claimant to send a letter before action.

On 18 November the Court of Appeal upheld a first instance decision making a group of litigation funders liable to pay the costs of the action it funded on the indemnity basis.

Choosing the right adjudicator to decide your dispute can be one of the most important and difficult aspects of the adjudication process.

The Finance Bill 2014 contains new provisions making it clear that partial charities relief is available when a charity jointly purchases property with a non-charity.

Stamp duty land tax (SDLT) came into force on 1 December 2003. On or shortly after 1 December 2008, many leases working on a five-year cycle will have their first rent review.

From April 2015, non-UK residents selling UK residential property will be subject to capital gains tax (CGT) on future gains.

HM Revenue & Customs has finally confirmed that the surrender of a lease subject to tenancies can constitute a "transfer of a going concern".

As is often the case with buses, a second important case on input tax recovery has come along shortly after another.

Currently, not a day seems to go by without reports of whistleblowing in the press.

In December 2013 the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) released its ruling on the applications by Groupe Eurotunnel S.A. (Eurotunnel) and Société Coopérative de Production SeaFrance S.A. (SCOP) for review of the UK Competition Commission’s (CC) report on the acquisition by Eurotunnel of certain assets from the collapsed SeaFrance S.A. business.

The Incentive Exercises Monitoring Board (IEMB) first published its voluntary code on pension incentive exercises in June 2012.

The UK government has published consultation on controversial changes to the moral hazard powers of the Pensions Regulator.

The Pensions Ombudsman has recently issued three determinations on pension liberation (Jerrard, Stobie and Kenyon).

Over the last three years, we have been surveying and interviewing a number of general counsel and senior in-house lawyers to try and better understand where in-house legal teams sit within their organisations.

In July 2011 Nabarro’s Real Estate Update reported on the possibility of regulations being introduced within the following four years to ensure rented properties, both commercial and domestic, met minimum energy efficiency standards (see link to the article right).

Yesterday, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its advice to the European Commission on extending the AIFMD passport to non-EU managers.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has today handed down its long-awaited judgment in the USDAW v Woolworths and Ethel Austin case.