The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has opened a consultation on a proposed ban of cryptocurrency products.
Legal aid cuts mean discrimination victims cannot get representation in court.
Supreme Court justice Lord David Kitchin went on record to express his belief that the law will ultimately keep pace with emerging technologies (as he suggests it has always done).
Hogan Lovells represented Twitter’s French arm in the first ever “fake news” case which concerned “yellow vest” events in France.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG, an independent organisation made up of MPs) has intervened in a Supreme Court case to help small businesses against financial institutions by closing a legal loophole which banks have used to exploit distressed companies.
Internet and phone providers will now have to tell users when their contract is nearly over.
Two years after Andrew Baily, head of the FCA (Libor’s regulator), effectively stated that LIBOR would be gone by 2021, the FCA and the Bank of England (BoE) recently encouraged banks to move to the new benchmark SONIA.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recommended that the Big Four accountancy firms should separate their professional services and audit work.
There has been a call for greater regulation of automatic facial recognition technologies in order to prevent abuse of citizens’ privacy rights.
Obelisk announces a formal partnership with CMS offering flexible legal solutions for its clients and lawyers.