Employment Rights Bill 2024: Key Provisions14 October 2024
This article takes a first look at the eagerly anticipated Employment Rights Bill 2024 and highlights some of the key takeaways.
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Heavy Industries Go Light: Grid Fee Reforms – Danger Alert for German Heavy Industry?14 October 2024
In July 2024, Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) published a key issues paper in which it further develops the regulations on grid fees for industrial customers. What might this mean for the industry?
Snacks: Digestible Weekly Labour News – Issue 18010 October 2024
Read the 180th edition of our weekly update on Italian labour law.
WFW advises KIS on US$400m syndicated financing10 October 2024
This is the first time KB Kookmin Card has raised funds through a syndicated loan agreement with international lenders.
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry phase 2 report—what are the key findings?8 October 2024
Theresa Mohammed, in a LexisNexis article, discusses The Phase 2 report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, published on 4 September 2024.
Commercial Disputes Weekly – Issue 2208 October 2024
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we consider the English court’s jurisdiction to enforce foreign judgments, two challenges to freezing injunctions and whether the pandemic was a catastrophe for insurance purposes.
UK Supreme Court grants final anti-suit injunction to terminate Russian proceedings in breach of arbitration agreement7 October 2024
The article discusses the UK Supreme Court’s decision to grant an anti-suit injunction against a Russian company to enforce a Paris arbitration agreement.
Heavy Industries Go Light: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage – Better stored deep down than blown high up7 October 2024
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage is a technology and growing business sector. The German federal government has recently come out in favour of CCS as a “building block for a climate-neutral and competitive industry”.
Bitkub successfully defends English High Court claim in first-of-its-kind crypto judgment4 October 2024
The English High Court has handed down a significant decision in connection with an alleged cryptocurrency fraud. Watson Farley & Williams advised the successful party, Bitkub Online Co Ltd.
WFW helps secure landmark success for Bitkub in first-of-its-kind crypto judgment4 October 2024
The judgment of D’Aloia v Persons Unknown & Others from a Deputy High Court Judge of the Chancery Division provides a landmark finding that USDT, a form of cryptocurrency, attracts property rights under English law.
WFW signs lease on future London office at 25 Moorgate with Barings for 2026 move3 October 2024
The lease will run for an initial period of fifteen years.
Snacks: Digestible Weekly Labour News – Issue 1793 October 2024
Read the 179th edition of our weekly update on Italian labour law.
