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Dutch government interprets ECJ's Danish decisions On 14 June 2019, the Dutch government responded to questions raised by members of the Dutch parliament about the impact of the decisions of the ECJ of 26 February 2019. In these decisions, the ECJ essentially held that Member States are under an...
Zoom, Slack, Looker...Enterprise tech cashes in. Is legal tech next? For several months, I had 5-10 calls a week with a Fortune 500 client based in several offices around the world. For each call, I was sent a Zoom invite containing dial-in details. These looked like every other conference call invitation but with a big...
French Digital Services Tax: final adjustments prior to enactment of the Bill? On 26 June 2019, the Commission Mixte Paritaire, a parliamentary committee composed of an equal number of representatives from the French National Assembly and the French Senate, agreed on the text of the Bill introducing the French Digital Services Tax...
Irish Tax Appeals Commission Decision Relating To a Delaware LLC and Irish Group Loss Relief In a recent decision, concerning claims for group loss relief by Irish subsidiary companies of a Delaware LLC, the Irish Tax Appeals Commission (TAC) found that (i) the LLC parent was a "company" and (ii) adopting a purposive interpretation, the LLC...
Security by design – is cyber certification the answer? New cyber rules which come into force today introduce, for the first time, EU-wide rules for cyber certification of products, processes and services and encourage 'security by design'. They also give ENISA, the EU’s main cyber agency, a new name (the EU...
A graduate’s guide to legal tech work experience Adam Hill, future trainee, on his legal tech work experience with Collaborate cohort member, StructureFlow.  During my legal vacation schemes, I witnessed several supervising solicitors spend countless hours fiddling with grid-lines in Powerpoint, raging...
Lib(e)ra(tion)? Probably not from regulation On Tuesday the Libra Association, an association established by Facebook, published a white paper setting out a proposal for a new simple global currency with somewhat unambitious aims such as to "reinvent money" and "transform the global economy". The...
What BERT knows In a lecture theatre that once featured in  the movie Inception, Sebastian Riedel discusses how that particular film didn’t make any sense: “It’s not internally consistent. There are points where a person falls in dream level L+1 but fails to wake up in...
Bitcoin collusion: see you in court? The previously hypothetical application of antitrust laws to the world of cryptocurrency is now a reality in United American, Corp. v. Bitman, Inc., a case before the courts in the US State of Florida.  The case is most recently awaiting a decision on the...
Co-opting digital companies into tax law enforcement Today, The Times reported that some 38,000 online sellers registered for VAT in the UK in 2017-18, compared to 29,000 in the previous year and just 5,000 three years earlier. Why this increase? Since March 2018, UK legislation requires operators of online...