The Bribery Act Gets Off to a Slow Start
With the Bribery Act’s main prosecuting authority distracted, it is perhaps not surprising that the only successful prosecution involving the Bribery Act so far in the UK has been brought by the Crown...
View ArticleReport Bolsters Certainty of UK Renewable Energy Future
Back in January, I wrote a blog titled Emerging Renewable Risks of 2012, where I discussed the uncertainty of renewable energy globally. I’m happy to report that a recently published Crown Estate study...
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The Issue of Disclosure: Insurance Law Reform
In June the English and Scottish Law Commissions issued a final consultation paper dealing with a policyholder’s duty of disclosure in a business context.Last month the English and Scottish Law...
View ArticleThe UK Riots: One Year On
One year on from the UK Riots I spoke to Willis' UK Retail experts about the complex insurance claims that resulted.
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Farepak: A Silver Lining for the Directors but a Dark Cloud for the Banks
Remember the collapse of Farepak in October 2006 and the resulting furor when over 100,000 customers lost deposits to secure their Christmas and other food and retail vouchers? A lot of that outrage...
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Fees for Intervention…Prevention is Always Better Than Cure
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the UK are due this week to introduce a fee for the “intervention cost recovery scheme”, known as Fee for Intervention (FFI). Under the auspice of the Health...
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Willis Global CEO: The London Market Should Speak with a Single Voice
The London Market should speak with a single voice otherwise it risks missing opportunities in several key areas, including – engaging with the government, attracting the best young talent,...
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In, Out or Shake it all About? Cameron’s EU Dance Creates Uncertainty for the...
The UK’s attitude to Europe is best summed up by an apocryphal 1930s newspaper headline “Fog in Channel – Continent Isolated”. But unfortunately in today’s global economy the UK cannot hide behind sea...
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Weathering a Storm – Risk Solutions for UK Retailers
Weather patterns are becoming more unpredictable than ever. In March 2012 the UK was in the grip of a hosepipe ban, but within one month we had received 200% more rain than usual, resulting in 2012...
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Retailers Exposed to the Elements: How Risk Solutions can Soften the Blow of...
The coldest March for 50 years has left the UK shivering, with many businesses in particular suffering significant decline in revenues as the unseasonal cold snap dictates consumer behaviours and...
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Claims Portal Registration: Searching for the Answer
At the end of July 2013 the UK Government is extending the existing electronic Road Traffic Accident (RTA) claims portal in England and Wales to include employers’ liability (EL) and public liability...
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Fostering Transparency & Trust?
In July 2013 the UK government published a discussion paper entitled Transparency & Trust: enhancing the transparency of UK company ownership and increasing trust in UK business. The paper contains...
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Watch Out: The Aussie Plaintiff’s Bar is Joining the Party
Any company can in theory apply now to launch its own law firm--another indication of changes in the litigation landscape here, which are more conducive to large scale and complex litigation involving...
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“Plebgate,” Compliance, and Tough Sanctions in the UK
When I saw Andrew Mitchell MP riding his bike along Downing Street, I never imagined that the outcome would have been a case in the Court of Appeal, but this is exactly what happened when Andrew...
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How to Link Business Failures to Management Failings: Have Regulators and...
Whether you are a claimant seeking to recover damages or a regulator seeking to exact punishment, your legal advisers are likely to tell you fairly early on in the recovery process that, unless you can...
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In Alternative Dispute Resolution, Is Silence Really Golden?
Is silence really golden? Not as far as the UK Court of Appeal is concerned. In the context of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), one needs to shout from the rooftops that not only will you consider...
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Insurers’ Consent to Settlement: The Perils of Acting As A “Prudent Uninsured”
It is often said that English law is more favourable to insurers than the laws of many other countries in the developed world. The context for this tends to be the general duty imposed under the...
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Sex, Greed and Fear on Remuneration Committees
I went to an interesting debate on executive pay recently at the Financial Times Non-Executive Directors’ Forum. One of the speakers expressed the view that remuneration committees in public companies...
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Deferred Prosecution Agreements in the UK: Should Directors Worry?
Should directors worry about deferred prosecution agreements, or are DPAs just another instance of facing the right enemy but in the wrong direction? At the start of the Second World War the Germans...
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In Pension Benefits, What Can an Employee “Reasonably Expect” From His Employer?
The surprise answer to this question from the High Court: Perhaps more than the employer wants to offer. Anyway this was the question with which the English High Court recently had to grapple in a...
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