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Dawn of an English Doctrine of Equivalents: immaterial variants infringe A summary of the Supreme Court's landmark judgment in Actavis v Eli Lilly which marks a change of direction for English law on patent infringement. The Supreme Court's landmark judgment in the case of Actavis v Eli Lilly is a change of direction for the E... Getting the Deal Through: Tax Controversy 2018 - United Kingdom Richard Jeens, Dominic Robertson and Charles Osborne summarise the framework for tax disputes in the UK. The legislation governing the administration of, and the process for dealing with disputes relating to, tax is not located in a single statute. For ex... Getting the Deal Through: Tax Controversy 2018 Richard Jeens is the contributing editor of the fifth edition of “Getting the Deal Through: Tax Controversy”, a publication summarising the framework for tax disputes in eighteen different jurisdictions. Each jurisdiction brings its own challenges to reso... Brexit Essentials: an update on data protection and privacy This edition of Brexit Essentials looks at the impact of Brexit on data flows and on other aspects of the GDPR. It considers the options for companies post Brexit to legitimise data flows, including considering the future partnership paper published by th... P&E Update: Employment/Employee Benefits Bulletin Refusal of employment grounds relating to union membership; Investment Association Principles of Remuneration; FRC Annual Review of Corporate Reporting; Gender pay gap; Employment tribunal fees Topics covered in this bulletin: Cases Round-up Refusal of e... P&E Update: Pensions Bulletin DC bulk transfers; Disclosure of costs; Money laundering; VAT recovery; VAT and special investment funds; Meaning of attributable to pensionable service; PPF levy for 2018/19 Topics covered in this bulletin: Pensions Update Seminar The Watch List New Law ... Tax and the City briefing for November 2017 Jeanette Zaman and Zoe Andrews review, inter alia, the Farnborough decision, the draft guidance on penalties for enablers of defeated tax avoidance, and the third annual report on the banking code.  The Upper Tribunal held in Farnborough Airport tha... Possible changes to UK Solvency II implementation Treasury Committee report on Solvency II; PRA consultation on the matching adjustment; future PRA publications on improvements to Solvency II implementation On 27 October the Treasury Committee published a report on the Solvency II Directive and its impac... Corporate Tax 2018: United Kingdom William Watson and Zoe Andrews give a comprehensive overview of corporate tax in the UK Written in question and answer style, this article provides a broad overview of common UK corporate tax issues on inward investment in the UK and of the UK taxation of... Competition and Regulatory Newsletter CMA opens four new pharma antitrust probes CMA opens four new pharma antitrust probes On 13 and 18 October 2017 the CMA announced that it had launched four separate antitrust investigations into alleged anti-competitive practices regarding generic product...