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The UK Government has published its battery strategy
It's been an incredibly busy time over the last 2-3 years for those working on projects with a battery element to them. This has...
Financial services regulation to assist the transition to net zero and a more sustainable future - raising the bar with SDR and investment labels
Yesterday, following a lengthy and in-depth consultation, the FCA confirmed a suite of measures designed to support the “UK's...
Has compulsory mediation landed?
The Court of Appeal has today released its judgment in James Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 1416 (“
Leasehold reform: Balancing the interests of residential long-leaseholders, freeholders and ground rent investors
According to Government, The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (the “Bill”) introduced to Parliament on 27 November 2023 will give...
Unblocking the grid queue: What can we expect from the Connections Action Plan?
I was speaking very recently at the Westminster Energy Forum on energy security and how to maximise the grid. I was outlining the various...
Prime Minister unveils £29.5bn of investment at this year’s Global Investment Summit
The PM has announced that world’s leading investors have committed £29.5bn in new UK projects and capital intended to lead to...
FCA and PRA publish feedback statement on AI and machine learning
On 26 October, the PRA and the FCA published a feedback statement summarising the responses to their joint discussion paper (DP5/22) on...
Mansion House reforms: reform of UK financial services regulation
Written by Harvey Spencer, trainee solicitor at Burges Salmon:
On 10 July 2023, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Mansion House speech...
Natural Capital and Private Wealth - the family dynamic and the trustees' position
Natural Capital is a catch-all phrase for a range of different actions and approaches, all of which have at their heart the idea of...
More parliamentary scrutiny: a new Financial Services Regulation Committee
In the headlines today there are number of articles reporting the need for the Bank of England to be subject to greater accountability to...
Automated buses and taxis - proposed AV Bill framework
The Automated Vehicles Draft Bill, published by the House of Lords on 8 November 2023, covers seven key areas of automated vehicle (AV)...
The (H)ATED Tax - New ATED charge amounts
The Autumn Statement on 22 November 2023 saw the announcement of the new Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings ("ATED") charges which will...
Hope for Probate
The House of Commons Justice Select Committee has launched an inquiry into probate – the legal process of obtaining a Grant of...
Delay on clarity on taxation of natural capital schemes - Autumn Statement 2024
Buried on page 91 of the Autumn Statement is the announcement of a delay to the government response to the consultation on the taxation...
FCA publishes webpage on pension value for money
On 22nd November, the FCA published a webpage confirming that it will consult on detailed rules for a new value for money framework for...
The new UK retail disclosure framework: Policy Note and Draft Regulations
HM Treasury has published a Policy Note on the UK’s new retail disclosure framework for Consumer Composite Investments (CCIs) alongside a...
Autumn Statement: continued push to support Life Sciences
The Government has announced significant investment in the healthcare and life sciences sectors as part of its strategic aims of “firing...
What the Autumn Statement might mean for tax changes in 2024
The summary of the Autumn Statement for High Net Worth individuals and their related structures was very straightforward. Not much has...
Autumn Statement 2023: positive for pensions, but details still to be worked out
Hotly anticipated by the Pensions industry, yesterday’s Autumn Statement from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt included well-trailed measures...
Autumn Statement 2023: immigration
Backing British Business
On 22 November 2023, the Chancellor of the Exchequer presented the Autumn Statement to Parliament, which includes...
Taking the next STEP - changes to standard Will provisions
On 2 November 2023, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) published the third edition of their standard and special...
Building Safety: Implications for the healthcare and care homes sectors
As discussed in our recent post the new building safety regime introduced by the Building Safety Act 2022 ("BSA") came in to force on 1...
On your marks: LGPS publishes draft guidance on pensions dashboards
Draft guidance for administering authorities on connecting to the new pensions dashboards has been published by the LGPS on its website.
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TNFD’s Nature Related Financial Disclosures – what do they say and what action should we take?
Written by Shannon Wright-Davies and Henry Dalton of the Burges Salmon Pensions Team
The Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures...
Spotlight on the "S" in ESG: DWP Taskforce on Social Factors launches consultation document to pensions trustees and professionals
By Kate Granville Smith , Sophie Kirk and Luke Parry-Billings
The Taskforce on Social Factors (“TSF”), established by the Department for...
The Pensions Ombudsman is not a “competent court” for the purposes of recouping contested pension overpayments.
This article was written by Caius Mills, solicitor, in our Pensions Disputes team.
The Court of Appeal has decided that the Pensions...
Bernie Ecclestone and the importance of being honest with HMRC
I frequently attend meetings with potential clients whose tax affairs are not entirely in order and who want to put things right....
High Court provides welcome guidance in approving moratorium for independent school
Introduction
Independent schools have not been immune from financial stress in recent years. Prior to the pandemic a combination of...
Pensions Ombudsman supports trustee on strict interpretation of transfer regulations
The Pensions Ombudsman has dismissed a complaint against a trustee who referred a transferring member to MoneyHelper for a safeguarding...
Robot Wills
The Law Commission is carrying out a consultation into the potential for electronic Wills, and it seems like there is a real sense of...
Core regulatory scheme of the Automated Vehicles Bill
Following the introduction of the Automated Vehicles Draft Bill in Parliament on 8 November 2023, this is the first deep dive into one of...
The National Security and Investment Act to be pared back: government review launched
The Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has announced a review of various powers used by the government under the National Security and...
The Rural Poll - Part 3: The Money
We were delighted to be speaking at An Evening with Burges Salmon on 9 October 2023, organised by Surveyors RECAP, a non-profit...
Careless talk causes… competition issues: why HR needs to understand the role of the Competition and Markets Authority
Tracking the activities of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition law watchdog, may not, to date, have...
The ICO and the NCSC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in respect of Cybersecurity
In September 2023, the UK Information Commissioner, John Edwards, and the Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC),...
UK - EU data cooperation: Memorandum of Understanding signed by the ICO and European Data Protection Supervisor
On 8 November, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) announced that...
Public procurement of AI - EU AI Act model clauses
Model contractual clauses for public procurement of AI systems in light of the EU AI Act have been published. They are based on the...
CMA approves Microsoft's acquisition of Activision after lengthy saga
The Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) finally cleared Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard inc. (“Activision”) last...
Illegal Harms: First Consultation and draft Codes of Practice from OFCOM
On 9 November, OFCOM released a consultation in respect of its new regulatory role under the Online Safety Act focusing on how...
Clearview AI wins appeal against ICO’s Privacy Fine
Last year, the Facial Recognition Firm Clearview AI was fined more than £7.5 million by the Information Commissioner’s Office (the ICO)...
Biden-Harris Administration issues landmark Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence
On 30 October, President Biden issued an Executive Order, which sets out a strategy to drive safe, secure and trustworthy artificial...
FCA publishes Dear CEO letter setting out its expectations for wealth management firms
On the 8th November, the FCA published a Dear CEO letter sent to wealth management and stockbroking firms. The letter is intended...
Automated Vehicles Bill: overview
On 8 November 2023, the day after the King’s Speech, the House of Lords published the Automated Vehicles Draft Bill, a landmark piece of...
Nothing but flowers?
In 1988, the band Talking Heads imagined a landscape where the familiar features were replaced with “(Nothing But) Flowers”, much to the...
UK Corporate Governance Code: FRC update
Today, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) issued a policy update on its approach to revising the UK Corporate Governance Code (
Audit and corporate governance reform: ARGA on hold
In a recent post we suggested that the proposals to create the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority (ARGA) would probably be...
Automated Vehicles Bill features in the King's Speech
The first King’s Speech in 70 years has reaffirmed the Government’s intention to introduce legislation underpinning a new legal framework...
AI Safety Summit - Recommendations from the Law Society
On 31 October 2023, the Law Society set out artificial intelligence (AI) recommendations which it urged the government to consider ahead...
The UK’s AI Startup Roadmap
Startup Coalition, Onward, and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change have launched “The UK’s AI Startup Roadmap” – a...
Bletchley Declaration signed at UK AI Safety Summit
On November 1, 2023, 28 governments (including the UK, US, France, Germany, India and China) signed the Bletchley Declaration. The...
"Not once and done": FCA speech on Consumer Duty next steps
Nisha Arora, the FCA's Director of Cross Cutting Policy and Strategy, has given a speech on next steps in relation to the Consumer Duty...
Clara-Pensions ("Clara") has announced the UK's first pension superfund transaction with Sears Retail Pension Scheme
Clara-Pensions ("Clara") has announced the UK's first pension superfund transaction. The transaction represents an exciting development...
DEFRA confirms its waste carriers, brokers and dealers regime is to be aligned with Environmental Permitting Regulations
On 21 October 2023, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) published its response to its January...
Certificates of tax deposit – action required ahead of 23 November
The Certificate of Tax Deposit (“CTD”) scheme enabled taxpayers to deposit money with HMRC, which could later be used to pay certain tax...
A new and more proactive approach from TPR to drive improvements in outcomes for members
Last Wednesday (25 October 2023) Chief Executive of the Pensions Regulator (“TPR”) Nausicaa Delfas gave a speech to the Mansion House...
Proposed changes to LGPS investments leave many questions to be answered
At the beginning of October, the Government’s consultation on proposed changes to Local Government Pension Scheme (“LGPS”) investments...
Supreme Court confirms administrators are not personally criminally liable for failure to file HR1
In a judgment that will be welcomed by insolvency professionals, the Supreme Court has today confirmed that administrators cannot be...
The Rural Poll - Part 2: Farming and Diversification
We were delighted to be speaking at An Evening with Burges Salmon on 9 October 2023, organised by Surveyors RECAP, a non-profit...
Government continue AI healthcare push with new £100m fund and regulatory sandbox
The government has announced a new £100 million UK investment to support the use of AI in life sciences to treat previously incurable...
The next chapter in Consultant Connect
15 months after the High Court’s landmark decision, the case of Consultant Connect has been hitting the news again. In July 2022,...
AI Unleashed: takeaways from the recent Thomson Reuters event
Innovation continues to be an important topic within the legal sector, with the recent rise of generative AI propelling the conversation...
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