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Employment Law in 2024 2024 is set to be a big year for UK employers. We are anticipating significant changes to employment law, affecting how people work, diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) and hiring and firing. In addition, the post-Brexit employment landscape is...

A testing time for UK financial regulation The past 9 months have seen turbulence stemming from the Truss-Kwarteng mini budget, a UK government debt market intervention by the Bank of England and rising interest rates, against the backdrop of questions about the UK's ability to thrive outside the...

Investigations and Enforcement Outlook 2021: Corporate Crime In the third podcast of the series, Jonny Cotton, Sir David Green and Holly Ware discuss the criminal investigations and enforcement outlook for 2021. In particular they look at the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) recent activity, the possible changes to the...

Employment Bulletin - July 2023 Topics covered in this bulletin: Court of Appeal confirms CAC jurisdiction over European Works Councils post Brexit Regulations allowing agency workers to replace workers taking industrial action ruled unlawful Injunction to enforce non-compete...

Financial Regulatory Divergence between the UK and EU Financial services has been lauded by the UK government as an area where regulatory divergence between the UK and EU will yield a Brexit dividend. But the current extent of divergence, and its direction of travel, is context-specific and it is easy to...

Henry's back... The release of Sue Gray’s update report on 31st January somewhat overshadowed the Prime Minister’s announcement of a Brexit Freedoms Bill, timed to coincide with the two-year anniversary of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. On exit day...

A reprieve for EU-UK data flows but other data privacy implications remain Many will have breathed a sigh of relief when the news filtered through that the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement agreed on 24 December included a temporary solution for the continued free flow of personal data between the EU and the UK. This...

UK tax after IP completion day Although the UK left the EU at 11pm on 31 January 2020, most people would not have noticed any change because the effect of the transitional arrangements under the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement deferred many of the legal effects of Brexit in UK law. The UK...

What the deal means for financial services: No change for now The Brexit trade deal lays down the details of the future relationship between the UK and the EU. The main document is the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) which (at the time of writing) is in force provisionally, with ratification to follow ....

Timed out? On-shoring the EU’s COVID capital markets quick fixes Irrespective of COVID, the Brexit clock continues to tick down to 31 December 2020, the day the implementation period ends. On IP completion day, under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, the body of EU law then applicable will be converted into UK...