30 Sep, 2021 Specialist human rights tribunal gives landmark undercover policing judgment By Matthew Bruce Ricky Versteeg Charlotte Best * Updated on 14 February 2022 * In September 2021, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal – a specialist human rights tribunal that supervises...
29 Sep, 2021 EU BT 21: Sustainability and tax – what is on the EU’s agenda? By Georg Roderburg The EU’s Communication on Business Taxation for the 21st century (EU BT 21) is an ambitious package of measures that, amongst other...
28 Sep, 2021 ‘Green Claims Code’: the UK Competition and Markets Authority publishes guidance on misleading environmental claims By Jonathan Isted Simon Duncombe Cat Greenwood-Smith Ethan Lo +1 more... Show less In June 2021, we highlighted in this blog the Competition and Market Authority’s (the CMA) consultation on its draft guidance for...
23 Sep, 2021 Amendment of Austrian competition law strengthens role of sustainability By Florian Reiter-Werzin Maria Dreher-Lorje separate blog post. In this blog, we discuss the paradigm shift and sustainability’s increasingly important role in competition law...
21 Sep, 2021 'Green' competition policy – the latest update from the European Commission By Thomas Lübbig Paul van den Berg Sarah Jensen Kasia Bojarojc Emma Roberts +2 more... Show less The European Commission has published an interim policy brief ('the Brief') on how it plans to adapt its competition law rules and...
17 Sep, 2021 What does COP26 mean for business? By Timothy Wilkins Oliver Dudok van Heel The stakes for November’s UN Climate Change Conference couldn’t be higher. But what can we expect from the talks in Glasgow? And how will...
16 Sep, 2021 Fit for 55: what the EU’s 2030 decarbonisation plan means for the hydrogen and ammonia industries By Hendrik Wessling Mirko Masek Ulrich Scholz The EU aims to become carbon neutral by 2050. As an intermediate step, in July 2021, the European Commission agreed a package of measures...
15 Sep, 2021 Sustainable finance regulation – an introduction to the legal and commercial challenges By Tom Rhodes Kezia Robson Anthea Bowater Simon Orton Michael Raffan +2 more... Show less Regulators around the world are taking ambitious steps to improve the sustainability of the financial sector and guide capital towards...
03 Sep, 2021 Shareholders bring case against Australian bank in relation to its climate commitments By Anthea Bowater Simon Orton Christopher Robinson Shareholders in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) have filed an application in the Federal Court of Australia to obtain documents...