Alerts
Alerts archive 2010
28.10.10
Interest payments to non-UK lenders - The new DT Treaty Passport scheme
The new Double Tax (DT) Treaty Passport scheme was introduced on 1 September 2010.
28.10.10
Interest payments to non-UK lenders - UK source interest
The UK's territorial scope extends UK tax to non-UK resident recipients of interest arising from a UK source.
27.10.10
Important changes to Takeover Code
The Code Committee of the Takeover Panel has announced its intention to make some significant changes to the Takeover Code.
27.10.10
Coalition Watch - Spending Review special edition
Welcome to this special edition of the Public Law & Regulation team's Coalition Watch alert series.
25.10.10
The Government has announced that the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will go ahead and will be funded from the Department of Energy and Climate Change's annually managed expenditure.
21.10.10
Data centre operators lose out in spending review
Yesterday's comprehensive spending review included a radical change to the CRC (Carbon Reduction Commitment) Energy Efficiency Scheme.
20.10.10
Before you charge in - Part 10. A bird in the hand...when does the right to set-off arise?
Knowing how much money you owe and are owed is critical when considering disputes with other parties.
19.10.10
Property update - October 2010
Wragge & Co's real estate experts bring you the latest property law issues. Read their comment on these issues and take note of any action points that will help you and your organisation.
15.10.10
Unhappy returns - the AstraZeneca case strikes again
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) announced this morning that Reckitt Benckiser has agreed to pay a penalty of £10.2 million for an abuse of dominant position in the market for the NHS supply of alginate and antacid heartburn medicines.
14.10.10
Restricting pensions tax relief - the new regime from 6 April 2011
The wait is over. We knew that tax privileged pension saving was going to change and now we know the key features of the reforms.
12.10.10
Just how effective are exclusions of indirect and consequential loss?
In GB Gas Holdings v Accenture, the Court of Appeal has upheld the first instance judge's findings on preliminary issues relating to the exclusions clause.
05.10.10
Lego Juris A/S v OHIM (Mega Brands Inc. intervening) (Case C-48/09 P)
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has held that Lego's long-contested Community Trade Mark based on the shape of its Lego brick is invalid under Article 7(1)(e)(ii) of the Trade Marks Regulation.
04.10.10
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ruled that, by failing to allow litigants to put forward a case based on human rights law in proceedings brought by a local authority, the UK has breached the European Convention.
01.10.10
A previous alert discussed the new competition powers of Monitor that are proposed in the Department of Health consultation paper "Liberating the NHS: Regulating healthcare providers". This analysis looks more generally at the proposals to change the regulatory framework for NHS services in England
01.10.10
A drop in carriage clock sales? Time called on default retirement age
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills and the Department for Work and Pensions have issued a joint consultation on the Government's proposal to phase out the default retirement age.
