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Mar 08, 2024

Changes to The Register of Overseas Entities Regime – the impact of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 on real estate

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023, with the provisions of ECCTA to be brought in by secondary legislation in stages throughout…
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Mar 01, 2024

UK Corporate Briefing March 2024

Welcome to the Corporate Briefing, where we review the latest developments in UK corporate law that you need to know about. In this month’s issue, we discuss: FTSE Women Leaders Review – Year…
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Nov 14, 2023

Longer leases, lower ground rents and leasehold liberation: Residential reforms in the King’s speech explained

The King’s speech announced a new Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill ‘to reform the housing market by making it cheaper and easier for leaseholders to purchase their freehold and tackling the…
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Nov 02, 2023

Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards – here to stay or at risk of becoming redundant?

In September, ahead of the Conservative party conference, Rishi Sunak announced a step back from the Government’s net zero policy and targets.  This was followed up last week by the Government’s…
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Jul 13, 2023

Register of Overseas Entities – duty to file update regardless of any change – process and implications

The Register of Overseas Entities launched nearly a year ago on 1 August 2022. The Register was established as a measure to increase transparency in the ownership of overseas entities that own UK…
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Jun 08, 2023

“For the rich but not the poor” but still entitled to charitable relief from business rates

In the case of London Borough of Merton Council v Nuffield Health [2023] UKSC 18 , the Supreme Court unanimously held that Nuffield Health was entitled to charitable relief of 80% from its business…
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Jun 02, 2023

The greenwashing trap is set for landlords and tenants

Climate change presents a series of risks and opportunities for companies across the board.  Increasingly they are being put on the spot to demonstrate that they have these things in hand and have a…
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May 05, 2023

MEES, the next chapter: plotting residential real estate’s route to net zero

MEES Regulations have meant that since 1 April 2020 landlords of residential property have been prohibited from letting out properties below a minimum EPC rating of E unless they have registered an…
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Apr 26, 2023

UK HR two-minute monthly: April 2023

Our April update includes cases on religious belief discrimination in the education sector, with a school chaplain preaching to pupils his views on same-sex marriage, a case considering whether the…
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Mar 29, 2023

MEES, the next chapter: plotting commercial real estate's route to net zero

1 April 2023 sees the last step in the MEES phase 1 journey come to fruition – meaning that (with limited exceptions) you cannot continue to let sub-standard property (that has an EPC rating below an…
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Mar 17, 2023

Financing losses and interest - simple pleasures or compounding the misery?

It has long been a mystery to economists, accountants and business people why lawyers have regard to simple interest in commercial cases, in circumstances where companies generally do not (and cannot)…
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Mar 16, 2023

Chambers Europe 2023

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