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WBD advises Wykeland Beal on property transaction
18 Nov 2019
Transatlantic law firm, WBD, has advised Wykeland Beal, a joint venture between Wykeland Group and Beal Homes, on a deal for Arco's new £16m headquarters office building at the Fruit Market in Hull to house its 550 staff.
Risk of enfranchisement plays into landlord's hands
15 Nov 2019
The Supreme Court has held that a landlord was reasonable to withhold consent to a tenant's planning application. This Supreme Court decision overturns the earlier Court of Appeal and High Court decisions
The push for electric vehicles
15 Nov 2019
The effect we are having on the environment has never before been so at the fore of our political discussion. A majority of voters place the environment as one of their greatest concerns alongside Brexit. According to the Office for National Statistics in 2018, carbon emissions from transport accounted for 33% of all carbon emission. The large majority of this was from road transport. A major focus for all parties is moving to more ultra-low emission vehicles. But how do they plan on achieving this?
A key priority for MEPs remains citizens' rights
13 Nov 2019
The EU press release confirms that the Brexit Steering Group met with several committees to consider the Withdrawal Agreement (WA) on citizen's rights. The focus was on the implementation in the UK and in the EU-27 of the citizens' rights provisions contained within part II of the WA.
HS2 becomes an election issue
13 Nov 2019
In his September HS2 progress update to the House of Commons on 3 September 2019, Grant Shapps has stated that the cross-party review would: "report this autumn.", that he [Grant Shapps] would discuss the report with the PM and that it would inform decisions on next steps.
Annual Construction Law Conference 2019
12 Nov 2019
These were the topics that our guests from major businesses were keen to hear about when they attended our Annual Construction Law Conference in London on 6 November.
Manufactured Overseas Dividends (MOD) regime amounted to unjustified restriction on freedom of capital under EU rules
08 Nov 2019
Having found itself in an intriguing space between UK and Italian tax regimes, the pension fund at British Coal inadvertently found itself testing principles by which UK tax law impinged upon the freedom of movement of capital set out in the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union (EU).
Pre-election period of sensitivity: impact on emerging policy, legislation and decision-making
06 Nov 2019
Parliament must be dissolved 25 working days before polling day, meaning that Parliament will be dissolved on Wednesday 6 November 2019. The pre-election period before general elections is not regulated by statute, but governed by conventions based largely on the Civil Service Code.
Extraterritorial effect of section 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986 revisited
05 Nov 2019
The High Court has recently revisited the question of whether section 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986 has extraterritorial effect and considered the differing views expressed in previous cases.
