A new environment of disputes? | Clyde & Co

The last 18 months have seen major disruption to the way we live and work as a direct result of the pandemic, the full impact of which is still working its way through global systems.

Class dismissed: the future of group litigation in the UAE | Charles Russell Speechlys

Once the preserve and a staple of US litigation, in recent years class action claims have gained traction in the English courts across a wide variety of sectors. Recent disputes have involved securities and shareholder litigation against financial institutions like RBS and Lloyds/HBOS, claims against large companies such as Tesco, actions arising out of breaches …

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Commercial litigation focus: the Bahamas | McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes

Overview of the Bahamian legal system The Bahamas is a former colony of Great Britain, which attained independence on 10 July 1973 but acknowledges the Queen of England as its constitutional Head of State and maintains its identity as a common law jurisdiction. By the Declaratory Act passed in 1799, the English common law was …

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A guide to litigating contracts in New Zealand | Russell McVeagh

Earlier this year, New Zealand’s highest court issued a decision clarifying when and how evidence of parties’ dealings will be admissible to support arguments before the courts on contractual interpretation. The decision signals a departure from the New Zealand approach to date and the approaches in a number of other Commonwealth jurisdictions, in particular the …

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Corporate criminal liability in the UK: is change in the air? | Steptoe & Johnson

In what some have described as a development ‘seismic’ in its potential consequences, in June 2021, the Law Commission launched a consultation concerning proposals to reform corporate criminal liability in the UK. The consultation seeks views on whether, and how, to improve the law relating to the identification and punishment of criminal offences committed by …

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Tax disputes – some predictions for the year ahead | PwC

With public finances under sustained pressure, HMRC will clearly have to collect more tax, more quickly, with stable resource levels, while stimulating economic growth. This will require rapid decision making on what, or who, to pursue, and why. There will be more pressure on tax policy decisions in terms of where to draw the line …

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Tax disputes – discard the Whitebook? | PwC

There are some significant differences in the process of litigation when HMRC is your opponent. Understanding those differences is essential when formulating the strategic approach to the dispute. This is not to say however that commercial litigation practice is of no relevance; increasingly there is a tendency for the tax courts to look to the …

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Investment limited partnerships in Ireland: the new way forward | Maples Group

The Investment Limited Partnership (Amendment) Act, 2020 (the 2020 Act) brought about much-welcomed updates to the Irish investment limited partnership (ILP) regime, ensuring that the ILP is a modern and efficient partnership vehicle.

Recent changes in the Swiss financial litigation landscape | Bär & Karrer

A new piece of regulation: the entry into force of the FinSA and FinIA While the financial regulation landscape, inclusive of compliance, has kept evolving and increasing in the past 20 years, the architectural skeleton of the Swiss regulation landscape in this industry was entirely reviewed with the entry into force of two new bills …

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Climate change: boardroom heroes | DAC Beachcroft

If, as according to Ian Stewart, chief economist at Deloitte, CFO’s believe that climate transition will re-shape the business environment and more than two-thirds expect significant or wholesale change in their own business as a result of the move to net zero, what do CLOs or general counsel think?