This blog reports on developments in the areas of commercial litigation, arbitration, tax litigation, EU sanctions and injunctions. Its goal is to provide timely and expert analysis of key cases and legislation as well as news reporting in each of the focus areas.
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Office of Tax Simplification publishes its report on employment status
United Kingdom - March 11 2015 Last year the Office of Tax Simplification was commissioned by the Government to produce a report on employment status. The OTS's terms of reference…
Swiss sanctions against Russia are updated
Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine - March 10 2015 On 6 March 2015 Switzerland updated the measures that it introduced to prevent circumvention of international sanctions against Russia. At present…
The Finance Act 2014 (High Risk Promoters Prescribed Information) Regulations 2015
United Kingdom - March 9 2015 The Finance Act 2014 (High Risk Promoters Prescribed Information) Regulations 2015, which come into force on 27 March 2015, were laid before the…
HMRC did not act unlawfully in disclosing information to journalists
United Kingdom - March 6 2015 On 4 March 2015 the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in R (Ingenious Media Holdings plc) v HMRC. Sir Robin Jacob delivered the judgment of the…
Court of Appeal: jurisdiction to order discretionary trust disclosure
United Kingdom - March 5 2015 On 27 February 2015 the Court of Appeal held that it had jurisdiction to order a beneficiary under a discretionary trust to disclose details of the…
EU: Somalia, Central African Republic and Belarus sanctions updated
Belarus, Central African Republic, European Union, Somalia - March 4 2015 On 3 March 2015 HM Treasury published notices regarding updated EU sanctions against Somalia, the Central African Republic and Belarus. Following the…
Investment trusts can recover some unlawful paid VAT from HMRC
United Kingdom - March 3 2015 On 12 February 2015 the Court of Appeal gave judgment in Investment Trust Companies (in liquidation) v Commissioners for HMRC. This was an appeal…
New CPRs in force on 27 February 2015
United Kingdom - March 2 2015 The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2015 were published on 26 February 2015 and came into force on 27 February 2015. They amend the Civil Procedure…
US Treasury sanctions against Africa-based Hezbollah support network
USA - February 27 2015 On 26 February 2015 the US Treasury, Office of Foreign Sanctions Control (OFAC) announced that it had placed a number of individuals alleged to be…
No disclosure of letters of request: Administrative Court
United Kingdom - February 26 2015 On 21 January 2015 the Administrative Court (Laing J) dismissed an application for disclosure by the National Crime Agency (NCA) of letters of…
