From 1 January 2021, the EU State aid rules no longer apply to funding and other forms of support measures granted to business by UK public authorities. In place of the EU State aid rules, new provisions are set out in Chapter 3 of Title XI of the new Trade and Cooperation Agreement (the ‘TCA’).
Requirements for a
On 18 September 2020, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (‘BEIS’) announced that the UK’s register of company information (‘Companies House’) will be reformed to clamp down on fraud and money laundering. This follows the consultation on the options to enhance the role of Companies House and increase the transparency of UK corporate entities published in May 2019.
On 1 April 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that Morrisons is not vicariously liable for its employee’s criminal act of leaking payroll data of nearly 100,000 colleagues.
The Court overturned the 2018 Court of Appeal judgment which held Morrisons indirectly responsible for Mr Skelton’s acts, even though he committed them outside of work. The judgment, if upheld, would have
Gemma Townley, Partner and Nadia Ahmed, Trainee Solicitor in the Technology team at Sharpe Pritchard consider the recent judgment by the CJEU in Google v CNIL, which gives a landmark ruling on the territorial application of the right to be forgotten for global search engines.
Introduction
On the 24 September 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’)
