Northern Ireland's charity regulator opens up its data for third party use as part of a public sector drive towards greater transparency.

In June 2007 the DTI published some updated interpretation information in the form of FAQ’s on those parts of the Companies Act 2006 (Act) due to be implemented on 1 October 2007. There were two items of particular note for those dealing with companies and their officers.

Re-argument is expected in the Spring, with a decision some time later this year.

On 1 October 2007 a number of substantive changes were made to company law by the implementation of provisions contained in the Companies Act 2006.

The Companies Act 2006 (the Act), the largest ever piece of legislation issued by Parliament, weighing in with over 1300 sections and 16 schedules and to be supplemented with approximately 70 pieces of secondary legislation, received Royal Assent on 6 November 2006 and will take around two years to complete implementation.

It wasn't so long ago that mergers and acquisitions were the axes around which London's legal universe evolved. Indeed, elite UK law firms spent 2006 and the first half of 2007 basking in the radiance of record-breaking M&A activity.

The parties are former spouses and parents to an eleven-year-old son. Mr. MacDonald assumed primary care and decision-making responsibility of their son in 2022 after Ms. MacDonald...

"The general duties owed by directors to their companies evolved through the interpretation of those duties by decisions of the English courts, that is, they were “common law” duties rather than being set out in statute."

As the intentions of the Act include modernising company law and saving businesses money the provisions relating to the use of electronic communications were among the first parts of the Act to come into force in January 2007.

Construction, Property and Real Estate cases/news in brief.

Monthly round-up of recent Construction industry updates.

The fines and costs which may flow from a safety related incident can be significant, not to mention the reputational stigma which the company will suffer.

We made a statement in our recent Age of Reptiles post concerning the decision, Fitzpatrick v. Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, ___ N.E.3d ___, 2019 WL 5792847 (Mass. App. Nov. 7, 2019),

Round-up of recent cases.

Quietfield v Vascroft - The article considers the propositions that the judgment of Jackson J, subsequently upheld by the Court of Appeal in Quietfield v Vascroft (Matthew Holt and Abdul Jinadu, was right, but that Quietfield’s concession on natural justice was wrong, and that the adjudicator’s error resulted in an excess of jurisdiction.

Dispute resolution has never been more exciting. There is lots of it and it comes in a wide variety of flavours. About 10% of the UK’s gross national product is accounted for by construction activity, and this figure is probably a fair reflection of the high level of construction activity worldwide. So, what is happening in the arcane world of construction dispute resolution?

Dispute resolution in the UK has never been more exciting, The recent advent of ajudication has totally transformed the landscape. It has had a profound effect on all other forms of dealing with construction disputes.

Bexis has been an active member of the American Law Institute ("ALI"), particularly concerning the ALI's ongoing projects involving the Third Restatement of Torts.