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Since the Financial Services & Markets Act 2000 (‘‘FSMA’’) came into force on 1 December 2001 (the date known as N2) the Financial Services Authority (‘‘FSA’’) has continued its reform of the financial services industry through refinement of its regulatory approach and through revision and consolidation of its handbook. On 4 November 2003, the Treasury announced a review of FSMA after its first two years of operation.

A recent case examines where the responsibilities of both employer and employee fall when dealing with challenging pupils in a special school.

One of the major benefits of establishing a captive is that it is able to gain direct access to the international reinsurance markets. Reinsurers are usually content to reinsure captives provided the terms and conditions of the reinsurance are satisfactory from their perspective.

In R. Griggs Group Limited and Others v Ross Evans and Others [2003] EWHC 2914 (Ch), a client was able to require an independent contractor to assign the legal ownership of copyright in a commissioned piece of work to it, even though there were no contractual provisions to this effect and notwithstanding the usual vesting of copyright in the "author", as per the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Environment and Health & Safety developments in the UK

From 25 February to 2 March 2011, the United States (US), United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) all imposed various sanctions on Libya, implementing an arms embargo, freezing certain Libyan assets and narrowing the scope of permissible Libyan commerce for businesses and financial institutions.

A recent Court of Appeal ruling giving solicitors the right to terminate the retainer of time-wasting claimants has been welcomed by many, but has also created uncertainty.

Following the Court of Appeal’s ruling last year in IFE v Goldman Sachs, Gloster J’s detailed recent judgment in JP Morgan Chase Bank v Springwell Navigation Corporation [2008] EWHC 1186 (Comm) has affirmed the principle of caveat emptor in the capital markets.

Even the most dazzling of Sales pitches will be little More than an empty Promise if the service levels Provided aren’t up to scratch. For a customer, making sure a supplier’s performance matches their pitch requires foresight, careful research and detailed drafting from the outset.

With the Bill now officially the lengthiest ever to be considered by Parliament (and set to become longer still), we look at the major developments to date and the key themes expected to emerge in the battles that lie ahead before the Bill finally reaches the statutebook (the current target for which is late Autumn 2006, although this date may well slip again).

In Copland v The United Kingdom (2007), the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that the UK had violated Ms Copland's right to respect for her private life and correspondence under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights ("the Convention"), by the way in which it monitored her telephone calls, e-mail correspondence and internet use.

In this article, Aidan Thomson (a partner in our Environment Group) examines some key environmental law developments and the effect that they will have on businesses in the coming months and years

The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1994, as modified in 1999, ("the Regulations") have been enacted for nearly a decade. Despite this, it was not until last year that their application to the terms of insurance contracts was directly considered by the Courts in Bankers Insurance Co. Limited v South (2003).

On 29 February 2008, the English Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in this follow the settlements case reversing the decision of the judge at first instance.

The recent Court of Appeal decision in Shore v Sedgwick Financial Services Ltd (2008), which concerned a claim against an Independent Financial Adviser (IFA) for negligent advice in relation to a pension scheme, provides evidence of the problems facing the courts in applying the principles of limitation law, which in recent years have become increasingly uncertain and fact sensitive.

The Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO") has recently issued technical guidance, entitled "Data Protection Technical Guidance: Determining what is personal data" ("the Guidance") for data protection purposes.

As the trend towards off-shore outsourcing continues, businesses frequently need to address the complex issue of trans-border flows of data. Where the data is transferred outside the EU, the legal challenges become particularly difficult.

The Court of Appeal decision in Watkins v Jones Maidment Wilson was handed down on 4 March 2008. The House of Lords in Law Society v Sephton (2006) raised the prospect of claimants having wide scope to litigate stale claims, and Watkins enters the difficult territory of how those principles are to be applied in practice.