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DB Funding & Investment Strategy changes: update from TPR
Since the publication of the revised DB Funding and Investment Strategy Regulations at the end of January, schemes and their advisers...
What could Tory changes to the non-dom regime look like?
Wednesday saw a flurry of press speculation about the possibility of Jeremy Hunt abolishing or reforming the tax reliefs available to...
The Register of Overseas Entities (ROE): Fee Increases
Summary
It has recently been announced that the Register of Overseas Entities (ROE) filing fees will be impacted by Companies House fee...
CMA Housebuilding Report published
On Monday (26 February 2024) the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) published its report into the UK Housebuilding market, setting...
Professional Trustee held to account for taking an inactive role in relation to a SSAS investment decision
Summary
The Pension Ombudsman (“PO”) recently upheld a complaint against a professional trustee (the “Professional Trustee”) of...
Transport DCOs in the news
Last week was a big week in the world of DCO challenges. On 19 February, the High Court handed down its judgment in R (Save Stonehenge...
What is your service charge paying for?
The recent case of Holland Park (Management ) Limited v Dell and Dell serves as a reminder to leaseholders to check the costs they...
Restructuring at the Pensions Regulator
Due to the recent transformation of the pensions industry (in particular, the number and structure of existing schemes), the Pensions...
Court of Appeal considers whether a member is in pensionable employment during their notice period
This recent decision of the Court of Appeal considers the meaning of “pensionable employment” for the purpose of ill health early...
Energy Disputes - Spotlight on Effective Contract Management
Our Energy Disputes Guide highlights the importance of effective contract management in helping to avoid disputes in construction...
Goodbye lifetime allowance - the Finance Act 2024 has received Royal Assent
It has been a busy few weeks in the world of pensions (when has it not?!)
Now the Finance Act 2024 has become law we have a little more...
Re-opening schemes in surplus: is IBM onto a winner?
The pensions industry in the UK continues to await the consultation on the use of surplus assets in defined benefit ("DB") consultation...
Investigating the import of Chinese electric vehicles to the UK: A case for the Trade Remedies Authority (TRA)?
As the electric vehicle (EV) market continues to grow, the influx of Chinese-made EVs into the UK has raised concerns. Should UK...
Closed Products: staying on track for Consumer Duty
Given the effort to be ready for the Consumer Duty implementation deadline in July last year, and the consequences of the FCA’s emphasis...
SFE Asset Management Group’s Panel Event on ESG in Financial Services (22 February 2024)
Earlier today AJ Venter and Scott Paterson attended the SFE Asset Management Group’s panel event at the awe-inspiring National...
Large language models and generative AI - House of Lords report
The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has published a report into large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, in...
AI Assurance - an introductory guide
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has published an Introduction to AI assurance.
The guidance “aims to...
AI regulation in the UK: Government response to White Paper
The Advice Guidance Boundary Review – can the financial services industry help more consumers to make good financial decisions?
A collaborative review by the FCA and the Government of the regulatory gap that sits between ‘financial advice’ and ‘information and...
Health Tech Series: Government asks MHRA to publish strategy for AI regulation in healthcare
The Government has asked the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for an update on its approach to implementing the...
Adversarial machine learning - NIST terminology of attacks and mitigations
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), part of the US Department of Commerce, has published a taxonomy and...
What's changing at Companies House?
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 will give Companies House the tools to play an expanded role in tackling economic...
BNG - the legal details webinar at midday on 21 February
Biodiversity Net Gain is now live, and the surge in commentary around this issue over the last couple of weeks is impossible to...
Residential Investment - The Importance of Due Diligence.
At the end of last month the investor, Get Living, which owns the freehold of properties on the Olympic Estate was ordered to pay £18m...
Guidance on generative AI for barristers
The Bar Council has issued new guidance* for barristers navigating the growing use of ChatGPT, and other generative artificial...
Building Safety: Crisis in building control?
As discussed previously on Burges Salmon's blog (here), from 6 April 2024 the building control industry in England and Wales will become...
EU AI Act - what you need to know
The EU AI Act is the world’s first comprehensive law on artificial intelligence. Provisionally agreed upon by European Member States in...
Lauch of EU AI innovation package
The European Commission has unveiled a series of measures aimed at supporting start-ups and European SMEs with developing AI that...
FCA review into ongoing advice services and the Consumer Duty
On 15th February, the FCA published a webpage confirming it had written to around 20 of the largest financial adviser firms requesting...
ClientEarth fails in request for judicial review of the FCA's approval of an IPO for new oil and gas
The environmental law charity ClientEarth has been unsuccessful in its request for judicial review of the UK's financial services...
Pensions and ESG: PPF files a resolution against Shell's approach to climate change
Written by Kate Granville Smith, Shannon Wright-Davies and Katy Dixon
On 16 January, the Pension Protection Fund (PPF)...
NHS Provider Selection Regime: Guide to the Most Suitable Provider Process
The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 came into force on 1 January and represent a fundamental change to...
LexisNexis survey results reveal increased use of GenAI in the legal sector
LexisNexis has published a new report in relation to generative AI in the legal sector. The report is the result of a survey conducted of...
LPAs and the duties of a certificate provider - TA v the Public Guardian
Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) are important estate planning documents and the recent case of TA v the Public Guardian [2023] EWCOP 63...
Trade Remedies Authority launches investigation into Suspension Poly (vinyl chloride) (S-PVC)
The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) has recently launched an anti-dumping investigation into Suspension Poly (vinyl chloride) (S-PVC)...
Hillside in early 2024
Following the Supreme Court judgment in Hillside in November 2022, the industry has been getting to grips with how to ensure masterplan...
Stop, look and listen – how the Green Cross Code can help HR with AI…
After a somewhat trepidatious start, many organisations are now racing to embrace AI – and, in particular generative AI, in order not to...
Gender balance network launches interview series
BBalanced, the firm’s employee-driven gender balance network, has launched the first in its series of "Careers in Focus”interviews with...
Brighton's re-adoption of glyphosate
Glyphosate remains a sensitive subject. It is viewed as an essential herbicide by the majority of farmers, but has a challenging...
Regulatory intervention report on the Capita cyber incident – what are TPR’s lessons learned and future expectations?
On 2 February 2024, the Pensions Regulator (“TPR”) released a regulatory intervention report reflecting on the 2023 cyber-attack on...
Ickenham Travel Group Ltd v Tiffin Green Ltd [2024] EWHC 27 – Breach alone is not enough
This case is a reminder that even where there is a clear breach of duty – in this case a failure by auditors to spot a significant hole...
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The FCA's new SDR webpage
The FCA has launched a new webpage dedicated to providing information on the sustainability disclosure and labelling regime. The page...
Building Safety: Regulation of Building Control Profession in Wales
As outlined in previous posts (see here), from 6 April 2024 the building control industry in England will become a regulated profession...
Energy Disputes - Spotlight on Procurement
Our Energy Disputes Guide provides helpful information on the risks associated with public procurement. To mitigate the possibility of...
CMA report: Competition and market power in UK labour markets
On 25 January 2024, the UK Competition and Market Authority’s (“CMA”) Microeconomics Unit (“MU”) published its research report on
Navigating the EU AI Act: flowchart
The EU AI Act has been approved by EU Member States. A few further stages are now required before it comes into force; a Parliament...
Changes to high net worth and sophisticated investor exemptions
Written by Beth Jewell and John Roberts
New requirements relating to the promotion of certain investment types by unauthorised persons to...
Making details of options etc over land in England & Wales public
The official consultation on how the Government intends to compile a dataset of who exercises contractual control over land in England...
Green Leases - 2024 Edition!
Last week the Better Building Partnership launched its latest iteration of the Green Lease Toolkit.
It was first produced in 2008 and is...
Energy Disputes - Spotlight on Planning
Our Energy Disputes Guide provides a useful overview of planning issues that may arise during the inception phase of an energy project....
Priorities in payments for 2024
The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has published a speech by its Managing Director, Chris Hemsley, outlining the PSR’s priorities for...
Blackpink, YMS and next-gen immigration
You would be forgiven if you had thought that YMS was a K-pop group. Somewhat disappointingly, "YMS" in this post is a reference to...
Time to Talk Day 2024: how can employers walk the talk on mental health?
1 February 2024 is the 'nation's biggest mental health conversation', Time to Talk Day, run by mental health charities Mind and...
The introduction of appeals from CAR forms?
On 16 January 2023, the Environment Agency (“EA”) updated its guidance on how it assesses and scores environmental permit and licence...
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