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Competition & Regulatory Newsletter: General Court protects the European Commission from financial liability for its errors in assessing the UPS/TNT merger On 23 February 2022 the European General Court refused to award the €1.742 billion claimed by UPS from the European Commission, despite finding that the Commission breached its procedural rules when it blocked UPS’s acquisition of rival, TNT. ...

Employment Bulletin - February 2022 Dismissing and rehiring staff; right to payment for taken but unpaid leave; Cab driver using App was not a worker; not vicariously liable for injury Topics covered in this bulletin: High Court prevents employer from dismissing and rehiring staff...

A new dawn for vertical agreements in the EU and UK? Ten years after the European Commission introduced the first Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER), it was faced with assessing whether this tool was still fit for purpose in a business environment transformed by the growth in online sales and the ri...

EFIG: European Banking Newsletter - June 2022 Developments in this month's edition include: TARGET2-Securities - ECB publishes Annual Report 2021 Desks mapping review - ECB considers integration of Brexit banks in European banking supervision Resolution framework public interest assessment -...

Global Investigations Bulletin (June 2022) In the June 2022 edition of our Global Investigations Bulletin, we discuss the recent conviction of three companies for section 7 Bribery Act offences, and set out the latest news in global investigations and enforcement actions. Recent News ...

The Banking Regulation Review - 13th edition - United Kingdom Chapter This 13th edition of The Banking Regulation Review contains chapters on the UK and Hong Kong as well as on International Initiatives and an overview of the European Union 2022 in some respects offer the prospect of a return to normal for the sector after...

Balancing Security and Sustainability: Does the UK Energy Bill 2022 measure up? The long-awaited Energy Security Bill (the Bill) was laid before Parliament on 6 July. The Bill is a crucial piece of legislation for the UK’s energy transition ambitions and energy security, including powers to support technologies such as low carb...

Employment Bulletin - August 2022 Topics covered in this bulletin: Government guidance on employment status Employer could dismiss and re-engage employees with protected pay Court of Appeal confirms dismissal of whistleblower for criticising colleague was not automatically unfair Te...

Employment Bulletin - September 2022 Topics covered in this bulletin: Employment law aspects of the Chancellor's "mini-Budget" No TUPE transfer where activities after insourcing were not the same Right to participate in share incentive plan transferred under TUPE Governme...

Tax and the City Review for September 2022 The UT in Altrad Services Limited decides that a disclosed arrangement intended to deliver capital allowances in respect of ‘magical’ expenditure survived HMRC’s Ramsay challenge. The UT in BlackRock allows HMRC’s appeal on transfe...