Best legal reads of the week - January 31 - February 6
Published on 6th Feb 2015
It’s that time again, when we share the reads of the week around the web written by Osborne Clarke people.
Our top five reads:
On Thursday the Advocate General handed down what appears to be a welcome opinion in the “Woolworths” case on the issue of when the obligation to collectively consult on proposed redundancies is triggered in accordance with the European Collective Redundancies Directive.
The Financial Conduct Authority this week published a paper titled “A review of the regulatory regime for crowdfunding and the promotion of non-readily realisable securities by other media”. This isn’t a consultation paper and doesn’t invite responses; it is a review of some aspects of crowdfunding regulation and of the growth of the crowdfunding market. Read more about the paper and areas of particular interest here.
- Article in Click Green – ‘Finding the balance on data protection and smart city technology‘
James Mullock, data commercialisation expert at Osborne Clarke, discusses why stable data rules are essential in the future roll-out of smart-city technology.
- Osborne Clarke’s quoted company company legal news update: February 2015
This week we published the first edition of Osborne Clarke’s quoted company legal and regulatory news update. Register for the monthly updates here.
- Simon Beswick discusses ‘Why a failure to update archaic laws will hinder the rise of the smart city’ in City A.M.
With Uber and Google now going head-to-head in the battle to develop driverless car technology, the spotlight has fallen once again on the concept of the smart city. There is no absolute definition of what a smart city is, but the broad idea is to use digital technologies to create more efficient, responsive, and liveable urban environments.
