Thursday, 2 June 2011


Your Latest NewsJune 2 2011
Tax
Week's Most Popular
United Kingdom : IR 35: Check Your Contractual Arrangements To Reduce The Risk Of A Challenge
Kemp Little LLP
For a number of years, it has been common practice for individual contractors to supply their services through an intermediary, typically a personal service company or a managed service company.
New Developments
United Kingdom: Charity Bites: The Scotland Bill
The Scotland Bill was published by Scottish Secretary Michael Moore MP on St Andrew's Day, with the general intent of taking forward the recommendations of the Commission on Scottish Devolution, led by Kenneth Calman ("the Calman Commission").
United Kingdom: Weekly Tax Update - Tuesday 31 May 2011
HMRC has written to us advising that they are currently updating the toolkits published for use with 2009-10 tax returns. The updated versions for use with 2010-11 tax returns will be published between 26 May and 30 June.
Finance and Banking
Europe [Finance and Banking]
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United Kingdom : The Dangers To Firms Of The New Client Assets Audit Rules
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
The FSA continues to be concerned by the number of firms that are failing to comply with 'CASS' - its complex rulebook on client assets (including client money), which is designed to protect assets belonging to clients and being held by the firm from the firm's insolvency (and its creditors).
New Developments
Netherlands: Living Wills For Banks
For quite some time now, discussions have been ongoing both in the Netherlands and abroad as to the measures that should be taken in order to prevent a repetition of the financial crisis.
United Kingdom [Finance and Banking]
Week's Most Popular
United Kingdom : The Dangers To Firms Of The New Client Assets Audit Rules
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
The FSA continues to be concerned by the number of firms that are failing to comply with 'CASS' - its complex rulebook on client assets (including client money), which is designed to protect assets belonging to clients and being held by the firm from the firm's insolvency (and its creditors).
New Developments
United Kingdom: RBS v Wilson - The Fallout Continues
The six month anniversary of the RBS v Wilson case has just passed and the ramifications of the ground breaking Supreme Court decision appear to keep on coming.
United Kingdom: The Dangers To Firms Of The New Client Assets Audit Rules
The FSA continues to be concerned by the number of firms that are failing to comply with 'CASS' - its complex rulebook on client assets (including client money), which is designed to protect assets belonging to clients and being held by the firm from the firm's insolvency (and its creditors).
Immigration
United Kingdom [Immigration]
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United Kingdom : Dismissing Illegal Migrants: Recent Case Law
Burness
Two recent cases of the Employment Appeal Tribunal provide further guidance for employers on the legal implications of dismissing illegal migrant workers.
New Developments
United Kingdom: Dismissing Illegal Migrants: Recent Case Law
Two recent cases of the Employment Appeal Tribunal provide further guidance for employers on the legal implications of dismissing illegal migrant workers.

United Kingdom: The ICO's cookie guidance... still half-baked
Mayer Brown
From today (26 May), new rules come into force on the use of website cookies (and similar technologies such as spyware) which mean that website operators can no longer justify their use by solely relying on website users to change their browser settings to "opt-out" if the website users do not want to receive them.
United Kingdom: United Kingdom's New Laws On Cookies And E-Commerce
Duane Morris LLP
The United Kingdom's new laws for Web cookies and e-commerce come into force on Thursday, 26 May 2011.
United Kingdom: Public Companies Update
Charles Russell LLP
There have been a number of developments in the public company arena during the last three months.
United Kingdom: Common Sense Prevails In Contract Termination Case
MacRoberts
A party to a bilateral conditional contract is not allowed to exercise a right to terminate the contract because a condition has not been satisfied, where failure to satisfy the condition was caused by the party seeking to terminate.
United Kingdom: Health And Safety Newsletter May 2011
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
Welcome to the Health and Safety Newsletter, which contains updates on the latest Health & Safety cases and their implications for directors and businesses.
Finland: Court Ruling On The Finnish CFC Legislation
Attorneys At Law Borenius Ltd
The Finnish CFC legislation implies that a Finnish company may be subject to income tax for its share of the profit of a CFC regardless of whether these profits are distributed by the CFC to its shareholders or not.
United Kingdom: The Bribery Act 2010 - Are You Ready?
Kemp Little LLP
After months of delays the Bribery Act 2010 (the "Act") finally comes into force on 1 July 2011. The Act, which will completely replace the UK's existing anti-bribery laws, is intentionally robust, being wide in both scope and jurisdictional effect and imposing significant penalties.
United Kingdom: "Cloud Computing" - What Does It Actually Mean And What Are The Issues For Lawyers That It Raises?
Kemp Little LLP
In traditional computing infrastructure, a computer's operating system (e.g. Microsoft Windows), applications (e.g. Microsoft Office) and data are stored on an individual user's computer.
United Kingdom: Focus Antitrust Competition Weekly Email Alert - 25 May 2011
Charles Russell LLP
The European Commission has decided to impose a fine of ?8 million on Suez Environnment and its subsidiary Lyonnaise des Eaux for breaching an official seal that had been placed by Commission officials during an inspection into a suspected breach of the competition rules.
Cyprus: Laws And Institutions
Soteris Pittas & Co LLC
Since December 1980, Cyprus has been a contracting party to the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards.
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