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Dec 19, 2024 · What’s changing? Nationals of all countries who do not currently require a visitor visa to travel to the UK for short-term business visits (known as “non-visa nationals”) will need to make an application for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (“ETA”) in advance of their visit.An ETA is a digital permission to travel to the UK. Non-visa nationals include citizens of the USA, Canada ...

Jan 31, 2025 · Factual Background. BDW Trading Limited (“BDW”) applied for summary judgment to enforce an adjudication decision which required Ardmore Construction Limited (“Ardmore“) to pay £14,454,914.45 alongside the Adjudicator’s fees and expenses.The Adjudicator held that Ardmore breached its duties under a construction contract dated 30 October 2002 (“the Building Contract“) between ...

Jan 8, 2025 · December’s news FCA publishes consultation on amendments to UKLR. On 6 December 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a quarterly consultation paper proposing various amendments to the UK Listing Rules (UKLR) and the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules (DTR) to reflect the 2024 UK Corporate Governance Code.Amongst other things, the FCA proposes to remove references to ...

Jul 2, 2024 · Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024: The “need to know” 2nd July 2024 . The Topline “Enactment of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 has been a long time coming.Given Royal Assent shortly before the upcoming General Election, is the reform legislation as ground-breaking as the living sector had thought it might be?

Sep 8, 2022 · FCA’s new Consumer Duty: What firms need to know. 8th September 2022 . On 27 July 2022 the FCA published its Policy Statement and Guidance on the new Consumer Duty that will require higher standard of customer care. Please see our earlier briefings for information on the consultation processes which led to the introduction of the new Duty.

Aug 10, 2023 · Extension of the Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) regime in civil litigation. 10th August 2023 . The Topline “Extension of the FRC regime in civil litigation – where the costs recoverable by the successful party from the unsuccessful party are set or ‘fixed’ – is imminent.

Apr 21, 2023 · Breach of contract: Back to basics. The basic, common law position [1] is that a contract can only be terminated if the actions of a breaching party go right to the core of the contract and substantially deprive the innocent party of the benefit the contract was intended to confer. (Such a breach is also known as a repudiation, or a repudiatory breach.)

Feb 23, 2022 · Electronic execution: An essential update. 23rd February 2022 . The demand for modern, convenient methods of entering into binding transactions, combined with challenges presented during the COVID-19 pandemic, have rapidly led to electronic signatures becoming the standard method of executing transactions.

Recovery of legal costs: To issue or not to issue? That is the question... 1st July 2016 . Following the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) and the more recent Jackson reforms, the courts are increasingly keen for parties to attempt to resolve their disputes without recourse to litigation. To that end, the CPR include various Pre-Action …