Surpluses in defined benefit schemes may be a distant memory for most, but trustees (and employers) must act now if the employer is going to retain the opportunity to access surplus monies from an ongoing scheme after April 2016.

On 20 November, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) issued a consultation seeking industry opinion on a tidy up of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme on two issues.

The European Market Infrastructure Regulation places reporting and risk mitigation requirements on pension scheme trustees entering into derivative contracts.

Mr Mitchell, or more accurately his solicitors, have been denied the ability to recover costs, estimated in excess of £500,000, because they failed to file a costs budget on time.

Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, claimed in a privacy conference in Cambridge on 8 July 2008 that Europe's data protection laws are "no longer fit for purpose".

The Chancellor unveiled the latest round of planning reform with particular focus on streamlining the planning decision process through the amendment and promotion of a number of key planning tools, principles and policies.

Norton Rose is acting for JP Morgan Cazenove on the placing and CMS Cameron McKenna is acting on behalf of the John Laing Group.

As previously announced, any major changes on pensions tax relief will not be confirmed until the 2016 Budget.

The EAT agreed with recent European and UK case law that an employee on long-term sick leave is allowed to automatically carry over the "basic allowance" of four weeks annual leave that is guaranteed under the European Directive, without the need to request it.

The Pensions Regulator has published the response to its October 2012 consultation on revised codes of practice and guidance on reporting late payment of contributions to DC schemes.

There is no doubt that social enterprises have a role to play in the delivery of community services and the market clearly believes this will be the direction of travel for healthcare delivery over the remainder of the Coalition’s term.

At present in the UK, there is little protection for consumers who have purchased digital content such as apps, online games, video or music downloads, software or e-books.

This week, Nominet (the UK’s domain registry operator) launched the registration for shorter .uk domain names ,,,

Investing equity in a private company can be a time-consuming and expensive process, sometimes out of all proportion to the amount being raised.

In a recommendation adopted on April 4, 2008, the Article 29 Working Group (gathering all European Union national authorities competent on matters concerning personal data, of which the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, or CNIL, is a member) detailed rules applicable to search engines.

The CNIL very recently announced on its website that it has performed investigations into approximately fifty companies in order to check if they respect their obligations in terms of the protection of their employees’ personal data.

The Government has today published its eagerly anticipated National Infrastructure Plan 2014 (NIP).

A global survey published by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) has found an alarming degree of data privacy failings amongst mobile apps.