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BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 20 Aug 2019
Proposals have been afoot in the UK since 2016 to create a publicly available register of beneficial owners of UK residential property (the Register)…
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BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 19 Aug 2019
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published a consultation on the future of trusteeship and governance. This sets out TPR’s proposals in three key…
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BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 19 Aug 2019
In Garamukanwa v United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that there was no breach of Article 8 where an employer used material…
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BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 16 Aug 2019
Property fraud is on the rise and any property owner is potentially at risk due to increasingly rapid and remote conveyancing transactions…
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BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 12 Aug 2019
In a case which will have significant industrial relations implications, the Court of Appeal has ruled in Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley and others that…
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BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 12 Aug 2019
In BIC UK Limited v Burgess and others, the Court of Appeal has ruled that benefit improvements which were not validly introduced in 1991 could not be…
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BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 9 Aug 2019
Rural residential property practitioners will know that stamp duty land tax (‘SDLT’) rates payable on the acquisition of country houses - and town and…
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BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 7 Aug 2019
The Department for Transport has issued a consultation on the delivery of its intention for all new homes to be electric vehicle (EV) ready as set out…
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BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 5 Aug 2019
In Chief Constable of Norfolk v Coffey, the Court of Appeal has considered for the first time a claim based on perceived disability. It held that…
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BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 5 Aug 2019
The Court of Appeal has rejected ITV’s appeal against the financial support direction (FSD) issued by The Pensions Regulator (TPR) in the long-running…