Businesses operating in the UK could face legal duties to “develop, disclose and implement" net zero-aligned transition plans ...

Changing US tariff policy has had knock on effects across the world economy, changing the rules of trade engagement. We assess the fallout.

Automotive businesses will be reassured by the UK government’s intention to ensure that decisions taken across departments ...

The UK Supreme Court held (89-page / 694KB PDF) that while voluntarily incurred costs can be recoverable as a matter of law, there may be circumstances in which the voluntary actions businesses take ...

Work began in 2024 on setting up the IFR in shadow form and, once the Football Governance Bill becomes law, the IFR is expected to begin its work from autumn 2025. What is the IFR’s remit? The IFR’s ...

Below, we look at dust cases prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) over the last year in which businesses – and, in one case, a director – were hit with criminal penalties for ...

The announcement was made in HMRC’s response document to its Spring 2023 consultation looking at modernising the current stamp taxes on shares framework. It is currently proposed that the new tax will ...

Elizabeth Budd of Pinsent Masons was commenting after a new regulatory initiatives grid (80-page / 945KB PDF) was published on Monday. The grid anticipates significant reforms across the different sub ...

UK data protection law applies to the processing of personal data. Sometimes organisations seek to remove information from which individuals can be identified from data sets, to reduce restrictions ...

Though given that over the last decade we have experienced Brexit, a pandemic, an energy crisis, war in eastern Europe, inflation, and higher interest rates, it is therefore perhaps unsurprising to ...

Katie Hancock, commercial litigation expert at Pinsent Masons, said: “This decision is another in a line of recent decisions in which the English courts have been willing to accept jurisdiction in the ...

The primary human rights instrument across Europe is the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (34 pages/1.3 MB), to which the UK and 45 other European states are parties. In the UK, the ECHR is ...