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Case review 05/03/2021
In this case, the claimant’s personal injury claim in excess of £50,000 was dismissed in its entirety, despite liability being admitted under Section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015. Qualified one-way cost shifting was disapplied and the claimant was ordered to pay the defendant’s costs, minus the damages she would have received but for her dishonesty, as well as a previous indemnity costs order from 2018.
Article 04/03/2021
At the beginning of February, Singapore became the latest Asian jurisdiction to introduce mandatory data breach notification rules. The new rules were enacted as amendments to Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (“PDPA”), which has been in effect for more than six years.
Article 04/03/2021
Over the past 11 months individual personal rights have been balanced against the need to protect public health. Individual rights to see extended family, to move unrestricted, to visit a family member in a care home have all been curtailed with the aim of reducing the spread of COVID-19.
Article 04/03/2021
Following an Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 (the Act) – recommendations of which were published in December 2018 in a report, ‘Modernising the Mental Health Act: Increasing choice, reducing compulsion’ – the government, informed by those recommendations, has set out in a White Paper wide-ranging proposals “for a substantive programme of legislative reform”.
Article 04/03/2021
With many countries now vaccinating and looking to lift lockdowns, the question on everyone’s lips seems to be “can employers require their employees to vaccinate?”. In this article, our experts based in Denmark, the UK, US and India look to provide an answer from each of their respective jurisdictions, and thereafter forecast the potential COVID-19 employers’ liability claims we can expect to see in the future.
Article 04/03/2021
The government is set to publish a white paper with proposals for the reform of UK corporate governance and audit oversight. Accountancy firms are already splitting out their audit and consultancy arms and a new regulator, the Audit Reporting and Governance Authority, will replace the Financial Reporting Council.
Article 04/03/2021
The Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday announced his Spring Statement. Rishi Sunak has been clear that the public need to understand the true economic cost of the pandemic. And so whilst committing to do whatever it takes to support people and businesses throughout the pandemic, he has not shied away from highlighting the "enormous toll" this has had on the economy and our public finances.
Article 04/03/2021
Chancellor Rishi Sunak MP delivered his second budget yesterday which predominantly focused on maintaining, extending and creating new COVID-19 measures. This budget was a response to the pandemic first and foremost and, on that front, it more than delivered. Here, our commercial experts provide an overview of what the measures mean to businesses in a number of critical areas.
Article 04/03/2021
2020 was a challenging year globally. However, the start of 2021 has welcomed the rapid roll out of the breakthrough COVID-19 vaccines in the UK, a ray of hope for a way out of the pandemic. Over 20 million people in the UK have already been given vaccine doses, with the hope that the majority of the UK adult population will be vaccinated by the end of 2021.
Article 03/03/2021
On 1 February 2020, the Singapore government passed the Electronic Transactions (Amendment) Bill in Parliament (the Bill), amending the Electronic Transactions Act (ETA), Bills of Lading Act and Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act.
