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26/05/2023
Con­sulta­tion on Le­gis­lat­ive Pro­pos­als for Off­shore Hy­dro­gen Pipelines and...
In­tro­duc­tion­Fol­low­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s Hy­dro­gen Trans­port and Stor­age In­fra­struc­ture Con­sulta­tion, the De­part­ment for En­ergy Se­cur­ity and Net Zero (“DES­NZ”) has an­nounced a con­sulta­tion for off­shore...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
26/05/2023
Per­form­ing ser­vices in a de­cent­ral­ised man­ner un­der Mi­CAR
At the end of April 2023, the European par­lia­ment de­cided on a uni­form reg­u­la­tion of crypto as­sets across the EU by vot­ing on the MiCA reg­u­la­tion (i.e. mar­kets in crypto-as­sets). The in­ten­ded in­nov­a­tions...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
25/05/2023
Ex­pan­sion of UK pro­hib­i­tion of the im­port, ex­port and deal­ing in ivory
Since its im­ple­ment­a­tion in June 2022, the Ivory Act 2018 (the Act) has banned the im­port, ex­port and deal­ing in ele­phant ivory in the UK. The Act, in its cur­rent form, is one of the most strin­gent bans...
Law-Now Reputation & Defamation
25/05/2023
Crypto fraud: role of ex­change as a con­struct­ive trust­ee
In a re­cent judg­ment the Eng­lish court has dis­charged an in­ter­im pro­pri­et­ary in­junc­tion that was made against a crypto ex­change and con­sidered is­sues around the po­s­i­tion of a crypto ex­change as a con­struct­ive...
Law-Now FinTech
25/05/2023
Hy­dro­gen pro­duc­tion – draft con­tract pub­lished
On 19 May 2023, the De­part­ment for En­ergy Se­cur­ity & Net Zero (“DES­NZ”) pub­lished the draft full-form front end agree­ment (the “Front End Agree­ment”) and stand­ard terms and con­di­tions (the “Stand­ard...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
25/05/2023
Pre-award ar­bit­rab­il­ity: the seat, the gov­ern­ing law and the com­pos­ite...
In the event a party chal­lenges ar­bit­rab­il­ity of a dis­pute, a threshold ques­tion arises: should the is­sue of ar­bit­rab­il­ity be con­sidered un­der the law gov­ern­ing the ar­bit­ra­tion agree­ment or the law of...
Law-Now Alternative Dispute Resolution
25/05/2023
ESG con­trac­tu­al clauses – en­sur­ing com­pli­ance with­in your sup­ply chains
Life Sci­ences & Health­care com­pan­ies are re­spond­ing to pres­sure from a vari­ety of stake­hold­ers to ad­opt ESG strategies by re­view­ing all as­pects of their busi­ness - from pro­cure­ment to product de­vel­op­ment...
Law-Now Life Sciences & Healthcare
25/05/2023
North Sea Strikes and Force Ma­jeure
The latest in a series of strikes by oil & gas work­ers in the North Sea con­tin­ues to test the op­er­a­tion and ef­fic­acy of force ma­jeure (“FM”) pro­vi­sions in oil and gas in­dustry con­tracts.There is no...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
24/05/2023
Op­er­at­or that runs 10bet.co.uk reaches reg­u­lat­ory set­tle­ment with the Gambling...
On 23 Feb­ru­ary 2023, the UK Gambling Com­mis­sion (the “Com­mis­sion”) an­nounced that en­force­ment ac­tion against Blue Star Plan­et Lim­ited (“Blue Star”), trad­ing as 10Bet, con­cluded in the pay­ment...
Law-Now Gambling
24/05/2023
De­Fi and MiCA: How much de­cent­ral­isa­tion is enough?
The European Uni­on Coun­cil has re­cently ad­op­ted a reg­u­la­tion on Mar­kets in Crypto-As­sets (MiCA) that ap­plies to crypto-as­sets, their is­suers and ser­vice pro­viders, and cov­ers a range of ser­vices that...
Law-Now FinTech
24/05/2023
Mov­ing on with move­able se­cur­ity in Scot­land
The long-awaited re­form of the law on tak­ing se­cur­ity over move­able prop­erty in Scot­land is un­der­way, fol­low­ing the passing of the Move­able Trans­ac­tions (Scot­land) Bill (the “Bill”) on 9 May 2023...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
24/05/2023
Hos­pit­al­ity Mat­ters
Wel­come to the latest edi­tion of Hos­pit­al­ity Mat­ters – the first edi­tion since the start of the COV­ID pan­dem­ic, when we got out of the pre­vi­ously reg­u­lar habit of pro­du­cing this pub­lic­a­tion. I think...
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