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The Supreme Court has confirmed that Yaseen Aslam and a small group of other drivers had the status of workers, not self-employed contractors, when working for Uber...

The EU Commission has now published draft adequacy decisions for transfers of personal data to the United Kingdom, under both the GDPR and the Law Enforcement Directive. This is welcome news, as it will provide a greater degree of certainty...

Currently, transfers of personal data from the EEA to the UK are protected on a transitional basis only until 30 June 2021 under last December's post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement. However, the situation after that is currently uncertain...

The FA has today (12 February 2021) published the written reasons in the case of The FA v Nathaniel Mendez-Laing...

The changes to the off payroll working (IR35) rules that were postponed from April 2020 are now due to come into effect from 6 April 2021...

The Fundraising Regulator’s annual report for 2019/20, published at the start of the month, contained some interesting insights into what was a difficult year for fundraising...

There are a number of changes planned this year to the taxation regime which are likely to affect the construction industry...

A recent case highlights the financial consequences of a local authority failing to process a deprivation of liberty authorisation (DoL) in a timely manner...

In a rare case of a party successfully challenging an arbitration award under s67 Arbitration Act 1996, the English High Court considered the question of whether a GAFTA arbitration clause could be implied into an agreement between parties by market practice and custom in  Black Sea Commodities Ltd v Lemarc Agromond PTE Ltd [2021] EWHC 287 (Comm)...

Public Policy Projects in their latest report, State of the Nation: Digitisation and Medical Technologies calls on the Government to place digital innovation at the core of its new reforms published in its White Paper last week...

Since the coronavirus pandemic, the Office of the Public Guardian report that there have been many urgent requests to search the database in respect of people who have lost mental capacity...

On 15 January 2021, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark judgment which will have an immediate impact on many businesses affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, along with longer term effects for the analysis of insurance claims for years to come...