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This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM
Takeover panel protects target companies with rule changes
Long term investors' interests are too easily damaged by hostile takeovers, the Takeover Panel has said. It will amend the City's rules on takeovers of publicly traded companies to protect the existing shareholders of target companies.
21/10/2010
New late payments rules passed by European Parliament
Public authorities must pay their bills within 30 days and companies within 60 days, according to a new European Union Directive that has been approved by the European Parliament.
20/10/2010
Equality Act Codes of Practice published
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published the statutory guidance that will help employers, lawyers and courts to interpret the Equality Act. Three Codes of Practice were laid before Parliament last week.
18/10/2010
How often does the ECJ follow Advocates General? Or should that be CJEU?
OPINION: Every time we, or anyone else, report on opinions published by an Attorney General of the European Court of Justice we trot out the fact that these advisory opinions are followed in about 80% of cases.
18/10/2010
Legal privilege should not extend to accountants, rules Court of Appeal
The right to keep correspondence and documents relating to legal advice secret does not exist when the person giving the advice is an accountant, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
18/10/2010
Attorney General hints at review of responsibility for online prejudicial comments
The Attorney General has said that operators of websites should be responsible for comments made by visitors to their sites that prejudice trials. Dominic Grieve said that he wants "further discussions" on site owners' liability.
15/10/2010
21/10/2010: We investigate the Government blacklist of items that cannot leave the country without its permission. Seemingly innocuous items are on the list, and it covers emailed plans as well as actual items.
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