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P&E Update: Employment/Employee Benefits Bulletin Shared parental leave; negative reference; Unlawful exercise of malus provision; bumping on redundancy; BEIS inquiry; Gender pay gap reporting; GDPR; Childcare voucher scheme Topics covered in this bulletin: Cases Round-up Shared parental leave: failure ... P&E Update: Pensions Bulletin Pensions White Paper; Master trusts new regime; Auto-enrolment qualifying earnings band limits; Finance Act 2018; Regulator’s Annual Funding Statement Topics covered in this bulletin: The Watch List New Law Pensions White Paper Master trusts new regime –... A tax on a tax: charging SDLT on VAT William Watson and Ed Milliner argue that no SDLT is due where the consideration takes the form of another land interest that is exempt from SDLT Where VAT arises on the acquisition of a UK real estate interest, the chargeable consideration for the purpo... Tax and the City briefing for April 2018 Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews look at, inter alia, the recent decisions in Travel Document Service and Hargreaves Lansdowne and HMRC’s intention to pilot an enhanced business risk review procedure. The Court of Appeal confirms in TDS and LGI that the F... Competition and Regulatory Newsletter ISU skating on thin ice with its eligibility rules ISU skating on thin ice with its eligibility rules The European Commission has recently published its decision finding that the International Skating Union’s eligibility rules breached EU competition law.... Insurance Newsletter - March 2018 Brexit latest; Solvency II; Pension transfers This newsletter highlights selected legal and regulatory developments in insurance. Topics covered in this edition are: Brexit latest - transition, mutual recognition, international insurers and policyhol... Brexit Essentials: IP rights post-Brexit A review of IP rights post-Brexit in the light of the recent EU/UK agreement on some key IP issues in the draft Withdrawal Agreement Following months of silence, clarity on IP issues post-Brexit is emerging for the first time. On 19 March 2018, the EU an... Competition and Regulatory Newsletter European Commission conditionally clears Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto European Commission conditionally clears Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto On 21 March 2018 the European Commission conditionally cleared the proposed acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer ... Brexit Essentials: Implementing Transition Following on from our briefing on the EU's draft Withdrawal Agreement, our latest Briefing provides an update on key developments and a reminder of the major milestones ahead.  Phase II of the Brexit negotiations has concluded, the negotiat... A Culture of Fear or Rescue? - Consultation on Insolvency and Corporate Governance Summarises the Government's consultation on proposals designed to reduce the risk of major company failures and to strengthen the responsibilities of directors in the context of actual or threatened insolvency.  The Government has issued a consu...