December/January 2011/2012

The Energy Act 2011: is the Green Deal the real deal? | Burges Salmon

On 18 October 2011 the Energy Act 2011 (the Act) received royal assent and passed into law, less than a year after it 
was introduced to the House of Lords on 
9 December 2010.

UCITS funds get a facelift in the Czech Republic | Wolf Theiss

Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS), are open-ended, regulated investment funds. Since their inception in 1985, UCITS have been regulated by Directive 85/611/EEC, known as UCITS I. UCITS I has been substantially amended several times, most importantly by Directive 2001/107/EC and Directive 2001/108/EC, these amendments generally being known as UCITS III.


Interpreting commercial contracts: a plane task? | Edwards Wildman Palmer UK LLP

Where two large businesses contract, there is an assumption that they appreciate the consequences of the contractual wording adopted. In such circumstances courts tend to give effect to the literal meaning of those terms in a contract. In Gesner Investments Ltd v Bombardier Inc [2011] the Court of Appeal was asked to interpret the terms …

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AXA ruling raises as many questions as it answers | Brodies

The judgment of the UK Supreme Court in the case of AXA General Insurance Ltd & ors v The Lord Advocate & ors [2011], issued on 12 October 2011, marks the end of a long and winding litigation in which all manner of questions of Scottish public and administrative law have been examined. These include …

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