Experts are warning that a lack of insurance cover for financial advisors guiding pensioners through the options available to them could prevent pensions reforms from being fully effective.

The amount of money being withdrawn by UK savers from their pension funds following pensions freedom reforms has increased dramatically in the last few years, new data shows.

An investment firm has failed to overturn a default judgment entered against it in favour of investors who had lost their money, on the grounds that the principal firm had no real prospect of...

New UK regulations have been published that significantly extend the duty to report financial sanctions breaches.

The House of Commons Procedure Committee has recommended that its successor committee should act swiftly to scrutinise details of legislation on the UK's exit from the EU.

The off-market sale by a failing Scottish haulage company of its warehouse and other property at significant undervalue was a 'gratuitous alienation' which was not in the best interests...

UK negotiators may seek a post-Brexit transition period which lasts longer than two years as part of the next phase of negotiations, according to a recently-published document.

Virtual currencies can serve the world's 'unbanked' as well as minimise fraud and lower the cost of making transactions to companies, a lawyer who specialises in financial services and technology law has said.

China's central bank has banned all initial coin offerings (ICOs), Bloomberg has reported, while Hong Kong's financial regulator has warned that the sales constitute 'securities' and need to be controlled as such.

The European Commission has published its European Pillar of Social Rights setting out 20 principles to support "fair and well-functioning" labour markets and welfare systems.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has approved its first official development assistance loan to the African Development Fund ...

The ESAs point out that the legal requirements are those in the Delegated Regulation EU 2017/653 and not the text in the diagrams.

Everyday consumers have been advised not to invest in cryptocurrency contracts for difference (CFDs) by the UK's City watchdog.

Writing on the ECB website, Sabine Lautenschläger warned that "the clock is ticking", and that banks of all sizes should be making contingency plans based on a 'hard Brexit' scenario...

The Meadow expert witness appeal (Meadow v General Medical Council [2006] EWHC 146 (Admin)) was decided by Collins J in the Administrative Court on 17 February 2006. This has given some important clarification on the legal position of expert witnesses should their evidence be called into question.

A recent decision of the Court of Session offers a useful reminder that even where parties have reached agreement on all the salient terms of a contract, it does not necessarily constitute a binding agreement which the courts will enforce.

In a recent decision, the Queen’s Bench Division held that a long-standing relationship between solicitors and a client involving many instructions over time did not give rise to a duty to keep under review the suitability of advice and drafting it had previously provided.

On 31 July 2006, Gillian Beckingham, the Senior Architect at Barrow-in-Furness Council was acquitted of manslaughter in relation to the deaths of seven people from legionnaires’ disease. However, while the court was deliberating on whether Ms Beckingham was criminally responsible for those deaths, the Government laid legislation before Parliament to make it easier to prosecute corporations for work related deaths.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will target "industries that are at a greater risk of cartels forming" as part of a new campaign to crack down on anti-competitive behaviour.