Service charges: recovering overpayments from the landlord | Falcon Chambers

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What happens if a tenant pays more by way of service charge to its landlord than it was contractually obliged to pay? Common sense would seem to dictate that the tenant is entitled to be reimbursed the overpayment. However, as this article explains, the answer is not always that straightforward.

Medical device regulation 
and the PIP scandal legacy | Shook, Hardy & Bacon

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PIP implants may be out of the headlines but the considerable impact of the scandal is now shaping the field of product liability and the regulation of medical devices. When announcing the new proposals for the regulation of medical devices in September 2012, the health and consumer policy commissioner John Dalli said:


Proposed changes to the EU merger control regime risk increasing the burden of the process on business | Arnold & Porter (UK) LLP

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Much has been made about the 
European Commission’s proposals to extend the scope of the EU Merger Regulation1 to apply to the acquisition of non-controlling minority interests. As explained in previous articles in this publication, these proposals were motivated largely by the Commission’s frustration at not being able to regulate the minority shareholding that Ryanair …