For businesses within the scope of the Online Safety Act, achieving compliance and swiftly adapting to extensive new guidance is a significant challenge. The contrasting approaches in Europe to online safety and the tensions with the US over content moderation further complicate the landscape.
Welcome to our four-part series of bite-sized Employment webinars, "Are You Ready for 2025?" In this series, we look at upcoming reforms to employment law which the Labour Government will be bringing in and what employers can do to prepare.
A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.
Head of Derivatives & Structured Products Jonathan Gilmour, Partner Joseph Wren, Senior Associate Nicholas Baines and Associate Nick Morgan have authored a chapter on derivatives at fund level in the latest edition of Global Legal Insights' annual fund finance publication. This chapter highlights some key structuring and legal issues that should be considered by a private capital manager thinking about entering into derivatives transactions at fund level as part of its risk management or investment strategy.
The litigation funding market in England and Wales has grown rapidly in recent years under a largely self-regulated regime but change may be on the horizon in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision in PACCAR,1 which prompted renewed public discussion about the funding industry and the extent to which it facilitates access to justice. The government has indicated that it will consider any recommendations made by the Civil Justice Council (CJC), which recently released its interim report on the subject, and which is currently running a public consultation on approaches to regulation.
On 12 November the Hague Court of Appeal (the "CoA") released its highly anticipated judgment in Shell v Milieudefensie. The case concerned the question of whether Shell has the obligation to reduce its C02 emissions by 45% by 2030 relative to 2019 levels. The Hague COA concluded on the basis of objective factors that Shell has an obligation to counter dangerous climate change but that this does not mean that Shell must reduce its scope 3 CO2 emissions by 45% (or any other percentage).