Osborne Clarke's best legal reads of the week - October 5 - 9
Published on 9th Oct 2015
What are the top reads of the week around the web written by Osborne Clarke people? Which posts have been shared the most via social?
Here’s the best legal reads of the week…
The US Safe Harbor scheme has been declared invalid by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Case C-362/14 Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner following the recent opinion of Advocate General Bot. This decision is hugely significant for companies that rely on Safe Harbor as a simple and cost-effective legally compliant mechanism to transfer European personal data to group companies or suppliers in the US. Read more about the case here.
In a much anticipated decision, the Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal from a member of a pension scheme whose same sex spouse would receive a survivor’s pension of around £500 a year if the member died, rather than a pension of around £41,000 if that member had been married to a woman. The case throws up some interesting issues about the interplay between domestic legislation and EU legislation in the pensions arena. Read the full blog post here.
The regulatory landscape in the UK is diverse and complex. Every business has to deal with a host of different regulatory regimes and regulators, each with its own approach to compliance and enforcement. To help you keep up to date with the regulatory changes in the areas that affect you, we produce a regulatory timeline, drawing on the expertise of over 40 lawyers in Osborne Clarke’s Regulatory Group. Read the timeline and download your copy here.
On 6 October 2015, the CJEU handed down its keenly awaited ruling on the Post Danmark case, providing revised guidance on how rebate schemes employed by dominant companies should be assessed under the European dominance rules (Article 102 TFEU and the national equivalents). Read the full blog post here.
The 6th October 2015 was a landmark day in the tax world. It was a day that will inevitably have far-reaching implications for multinational companies and all businesses involved in the digital economy: the OECD published its final recommendations from its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project (BEPS) which introduced, in its own words, “the most fundamental changes to international tax rules in almost a century”. Read the update here.
In a world of ever-increasing collection, analysis and commercial exploitation of data, “Big Data” we are (repeatedly) told, “is the new oil”. However, as drilling begins in the Big Data economy, questions are being raised over the role of competition law in controlling the commercial exploitation of data. Read more here.
A number of employment laws came into force from 1 October 2015, including new national minimum wage (“NMW”) rates, employment tribunals (“ET”) losing their power to make wider recommendations and Sikhs now being allowed to wear turbans in the workplace without facing the prospect of disciplinary action. Read about these laws and other developments here.
