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May 11, 2020 The Financial Conduct Authority Business Plan 2020/21 In April 2020, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released its annual Business Plan (the Plan) for the year 2020/21. Here, we take a look at their plans and add our thoughts.

May 17, 2019 Supreme Court provides updated guidance on professional negligence claims involving loss of a chance The Supreme Court's judgment on the court’s approach to determining loss of chance in a professional negligence claim. We've summarised the first opportunity that the Supreme Court had to review the rules of loss of chance since the Allied Maples case.

November 03, 2017 The role of the contingent workforce 2017/18 promises to be a fascinating and in many ways pivotal period for the Financial Services sector both in the UK and globally. Many Financial...

June 26, 2017 Implementation Day for the Fourth Money Laundering Directive – strengthening the EU’s anti-money laundering regime By Keily Blair, Polly Miles and Matt Timmons Today marks the implementation date for the EU’s Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (4MLD). 4MLD has been hailed...

April 28, 2017 Criminal Finances Bill finally becomes law as the Criminal Finances Act 2017 is passed By Keily Blair and Victoria Murphy Yesterday, 27 April 2017, the hotly anticipated Criminal Finances Bill finally received Royal Assent and became the Criminal Finances...

April 03, 2017 Who watches the watchmen? A new supra-regulator for Anti-Money Laundering in the UK By Keily Blair and Jo Barnwell On 15 March 2017, the UK Government announced it is setting up a new watchdog, the Office for Professional...

February 10, 2017 Another “fine” mess - the Landfill Tax gap By Jayne Harrold & Holly Grantham In HMRC’s latest report on the tax gap, published in December 2016, the landfill tax gap was reported separately...

January 31, 2017 CJEU confirms that interest is recoverable on wrongly paid duties By David Anderson Back in September we posted an update on the Advocate-General's opinion in Wortmann KG Internationale Shuhproduktionen (Case C-365/15), in which it was...

January 12, 2017 A change in approach by HMRC to Alternative Dispute Resolution? We are seeing an increase in examples where HMRC are taking a proactive approach to using Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR") as a further tool in...

December 20, 2016 Anti-avoidance provisions The recent decision of the First-tier Tribunal in Water Property v HMRC [2016] UKFTT 721 has served as a reminder that the domestic legislation of...

December 07, 2016 Customs classification of multifunctional machines By Holly Grantham & Louise Lewis Recent customs classification success In this PwC led customs classification case Brother Industries UK Limited and Brother UK limited...

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