The recent Solar Century case gives an important warning to in-house lawyers about the government’s ability to change policy at short notice, despite potentially devastating effects on a particular sector.
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REUTERS | Kacper Pempel
April 14, 2016
GDPR: countdown to compliance by Summer 2018
REUTERS | Mike Blake
April 1, 2016
In-house round-up: Spring 2016
This round-up summarises the developments that generated the most interest with in-house lawyers in the first three months of 2016, including the new PSC register requirements, Brexit, gender pay gap reporting, EU and US privacy shield and the 2016 Budget.
REUTERS | Sukree Sukplang
April 1, 2016
AI in law: the state of play
This week, a colleague shared with me a new white paper entitled Artificial Intelligence in Law: The State of Play 2016 by Michael Mills of Neota Logic. The paper looks at how artificial intelligence (AI) is being implemented right now in areas such as legal research, compliance, contract analysis, case prediction, and document automation.
REUTERS | Michaela Rehle
March 24, 2016
In-house agenda: April 2016
Key developments on the agenda for businesses in April 2016 include the introduction of the PSC register and the national living wage, and the adoption of a new directive on trade secrets. The adoption of the new General Data Protection Regulation is now not expected until the summer.
REUTERS | Nikola Solic
March 21, 2016
GC Leadership Forum: Chair’s Takeaways
We had a great couple of days last week at the GC Leadership Forum, which I chaired for Practical Law. I’d like to say a huge thank you to the excellent speakers and to everyone at the Forum who contributed to some fascinating discussions and debates.
One of the highlights for me was the keynote speech by Will Hutton, chair of the Big Innovation Centre and Principal of Hertford College Oxford, on what he described as the new age of turbulence.
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March 14, 2016
Terms and conditions apply!
When Practical Law began, more than 20 years ago, we had a simple mission that still holds firm today: to demystify the law and bring practical law to companies. A key part of that mission is striving to write as simply as we can, using plain English. When we took our standard documents to China, we found that our international customers were just as drawn to the fact that they were presented in simple, easily translatable English, as they were to the choice of English law or the jurisdiction of the English courts.
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March 4, 2016
The Financial List: first judgment adopts commercial approach to the meaning of Loan Market Association standard terms
The Financial List was established in October 2015 as a single specialist list comprised of judges drawn from both the Commercial Court and the Chancery Division, with particular expertise and experience in financial markets disputes. The procedure for cases assigned to the List is governed by CPR 63A, the associated Practice Direction, and a Guide issued on 1 October 2015.
REUTERS | Navesh Chitrakar
February 29, 2016
In-house agenda: March 2016
Key developments on the agenda for businesses in March 2016 include the publication of gender pay gap regulations, the start of modern slavery reporting and the UK Budget.
REUTERS | Tiksa Negeri
February 12, 2016
Modern slavery and human rights: new directions for company reporting
Outside the narrow world of those few of us who work as specialist advisors to companies and institutions on labour and human rights, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) have not had an enormous impact on broader legal practice; neither in terms of awareness, nor implementation. This will change significantly in the UK in the coming year, predominantly because of the impact of section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (MSA).