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ANALYSIS: Banning initial coin offerings (ICOs) is not the way forward for regulators, despite the legal and regulatory risks that could arise if they are not subject to proportionate regulation.

The FCA has published several updates to its website in light of MiFID II coming into force on 3 January 2018. These include:

In 2005 for the first time UK listed companies were required to comply with the Share Based Payment International Accounting Standard (IFRS2). This Standard not only requires the financial statements to include an expense for the cost of options and other equity instruments but the assumptions or factors that are used in calculating the cost of options (using a form of option pricing theory such as Black Scholes) also have to be disclosed.

On 19 July 2005 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that he had asked Sir Nicholas Stern to lead a major review of the economics of climate change. On 30 October 2006 Sir Nicholas Stern published his Review on <I>‘The Economics of Climate Change’ <SUP>1</I></SUP>. The contents of the Review have been well documented in the press but the impact of the Review on the Energy Industry is more difficult to assess.

'I had that Mr. Justice Wilkie in the back of my cab!' Well, not exactly, but the Watford Hackney Drivers Association (through Shujait Ahmed Sardar who also brought proceedings on his own behalf) were certainly before Wilkie J on 30 June 2006 when they successfully challenged decisions of Watford Borough Council to delimit with immediate effect licences for hackney cabs in the Council's area (see Sardar and others v Watford Borough Council [2006] EWHC 1590).

if a court finds a person's expectations of a public body to be legitimate, then the body in question will need to honour the particular promise it made to that person. However, demonstrating to a court that the expectation in question is in fact 'legitimate' in terms of public law, can sometimes be a ‘Lord of the Rings’ excursion.

Back in 1980, when the UK statutory jungle was a lot less dense, Lord Diplock noted in Duport Steels Ltd and others v Sirs and others [1980] 1 All ER 529 the constitutional doctrine of the separation of powers.

Following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, the investment bank Special Administration Regime was introduced to deal with failed investment banks or other firms that deal with client assets.

Ceda Limited, Decka Limited and Melad Limited were in CVL. Purported creditor Cash Generator Limited challenged the appointment of the joint liquidators to the companies.

The "Civil Justice Council Protocol for the Instruction of Experts to give Evidence in the Civil Courts" comes into force on 5 September 2005. It is hoped that by setting out comprehensively the duties that an expert witness owes to his client and more importantly to the court in a single protocol, it will counteract some of the damage caused to the profile of expert witnesses in recent months

The House of Lords has found in favour of HM Revenue - upholding the Court of Appeal decision in the Dextra case that payments to the employee benefit trust (EBT) in question were not deductible for corporation tax purposes unless and until the EBT applied them in paying emoluments: MacDonald v Dextra Accessories Limited.

Financial services firms that wish to set up "permissionless" blockchain networks will not automatically be engaged in outsourcing and be in breach of FCA rules, the regulator has said.

Judge Toulmin's landmark decision in the case of Picardi v Cuniberti that an adjudicator's decision was unenforceable as the adjudication clause in a standard form contract fell foul of the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (the Regulations) was not followed in Lovell Projects Limited v Legg and Carver and Westminster Building Company Limited v Beckingham.

Participation in the UK Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA's) regulatory sandbox is helping firms to attract investment for their innovations, the regulator has said.

The assets of a business behind an 'initial coin offering' (ICO), as well as those of its owner and owner's partner, have been frozen by a US court in response to concerns expressed by a regulator...

Following its earlier consultation, the FCA has published a policy statement on depositing client money in unbreakable deposits (UDs) [22.01.2018].