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WBD's private wealth lawyer shortlisted for Citywealth's Future Leader Awards
13 Aug 2018
Womble Bond Dickinson's (WBD) Newcastle-based private wealth lawyer, Katie Gosling, has been shortlisted for Associate of the Year in Citywealth's Future Leader Awards.
WBD provides heat networks guidance for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
13 Aug 2018
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has drafted a report for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), providing guidance for local authorities and other public bodies on developing heat network projects in collaboration with non-public investors in the UK.
Draft legislation published - register of beneficial owners of overseas entities
10 Aug 2018
The Government has published draft legislation to introduce a register of beneficial ownership of overseas entities that own real property in the UK or participate in UK government procurement.
Excepted Group Life Trusts are about to become more attractive
09 Aug 2018
The popularity of excepted group life trusts (EGLTs) has increased in recent years, especially for those individuals who have applied for lifetime allowance protection and cannot have "relevant benefit accrual" under a registered pension scheme or where the employer offers high multiples of salary as a lump sum death benefit.
Was an employer liable for assaults on current and potential employees carried out by an independent contractor?
09 Aug 2018
In Barclays Bank v Various Claimants [2018] EWCA Civ 1670 the Court of Appeal considered whether the High Court was correct when it decided that Barclays Bank (the Bank) was vicariously liable for sexual assaults committed by a doctor who had been engaged by the Bank to undertake pre-employment medical examinations on prospective female employees.
