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Data Privacy Newsletter - Issue 18 In this issue: Post-Lloyd Developments; ICO's Enforcement Actions Under Scrutiny, Soriano v Forensic News LLC; Regulator Guidance; ICO Enforcement Overview; EU GDPR Enforcement Overview; Views from... the Middle East; Data Privacy at Saughter and May... Competition & Regulatory Newsletter: CJ clarifies double jeopardy principles On 22 March 2022 the European Court of Justice clarified the scope of the protection afforded by the prohibition against double jeopardy in two rulings – one in the context of proceedings between the Belgian competition authority and bpost SA, and o... Timing matters Cider of Sweden Ltd shows that the timing of a third party’s application for disclosure of documents relating to a case before the FTT will be important to its chances of success. When third parties can get hold of documents in tax cases is often a... NFTs: Digging Deeper, A Regulatory and Tax Perspective In this article, we pry open two superficially simple questions concerning the definition of a non-fungible token or ‘NFT’: first, what types of assets do NFTs typically reference? And second, what does ‘fungible’ actually mean? We... Nature-related financial disclosures have arrived: Release of the prototype TNFD framework The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has published the first prototype version of its nature-related risk and opportunity disclosure framework to help give nature-related factors greater prominence in business decision-making. 15 ... BLOG: A “tax plan” for the UK One big surprise in the UK’s March 2022 Spring Statement was the promise to cut the basic rate of income tax by one percentage point from April 2024. The Chancellor also announced that the national insurance contributions threshold would be alig... Evolution not revolution: The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 The rapid journey of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 came to an end in the early hours of 15 March 2022. Its measures (particularly in relation to overseas owners of UK property) have been in discussion for years, but Russia&rsq... Tax and the City Review for March 2022 Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews discuss Royal Bank of Canada, the review of the UK funds regime, HMRC’s guidance on the meaning of “substantial” following Allam, and HSBC on VAT grouping. This article was first published in the 11 March 2022 ... Employment Bulletin - March 2022 Non-competition covenant enforceable in service agreement but not in shareholders’; aiding discrimination caught by settlement agreement; Employment Tribunal compensation limits; committee panel member was worker Topics covered in this bulletin: &... Competition & Regulatory Newsletter: CMA conditionally clears Cellnex/CK Hutchison merger with divestments On 3 March 2022 the Competition and Markets Authority announced it has conditionally cleared the anticipated acquisition of the UK passive infrastructure assets of CK Hutchison Networks Europe Investments S.À R.L by Cellnex UK Limited, subject to t...