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Competition and Regulatory Newsletter High Court awards damages in first UK cartel follow-on damages judgment High Court awards damages in first UK cartel follow-on damages judgment On 9 October 2018 the High Court issued a judgment awarding BritNed Development Ltd over €13 million in damages... Incentives Bulletin Labour’s proposals for Inclusive Ownership Funds; appeals against HMRC PAYE assessments of growth share ownership plans; Football referees were not employees for tax purposes Topics covered in this bulletin: Labour’s proposals for Inclusive Ownership Fun... Pensions Bulletin BA trustees to appeal; rectification of 2002 rules rewrite error; Pensions Regulator new approach; PPF levy 2019/20; guidance on non-financial injustice; Dispute resolution signposting Topics covered in this bulletin: Cases BA trustees to appeal to Supre... Tax and the City briefing for October 2018 Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews look at the decision in Union Castle (transfer pricing on an issue of shares); the new DPT statistics; and the AG’s opinion in C and D Foods (input tax on costs where a share sale is aborted). The Upper Tribunal in Union C... Data breach claims: a rebalancing by the English Courts? This briefing considers two recent data protection cases: Lloyd v Google and Various Claimants v Morrisons. Personal data breaches and the risks of follow on litigation are very topical: British Airways, Facebook and Uber are just a handful of the organis... Competition and Regulatory Newsletter CMA and FCA publish joint report on lessons learned about consumer-facing remedies CMA and FCA publish joint report on lessons learned about consumer-facing remedies On 1 October 2018 the CMA and the FCA published a joint report titled ‘Helping people get... The Mergers & Acquisitions Review - Hong Kong chapter The Mergers & Acquisitions Review provides a richer understanding of the shape of the global markets, together with the challenges and opportunities facing market participants.  This Hong Kong chapter in the 12th edition of The Mergers & Acquisiti... Employment Bulletin Bad faith for the purposes of victimisation claim; Ending of outdated allowance payments; Letter giving “one month’s notice” not resignation; injunction lifting exclusion from work Topics covered in this bulletin: Bad faith for the purposes of a victimis... Brexit Essentials: Deal or no deal - the competition regime This briefing considers what this technical notice tells us about the future application of the EU and UK antitrust and merger control rules - deal or no deal On 13 September 2018 the UK Government published a technical notice on how merger control and a... Brexit Essentials: Born of frustration This Briefing examines the doctrine of frustration, its application to leases and the likelihood of the EMA’s lease being held to be frustrated by Brexit. Canary Wharf has made a recent application to the High Court for a ruling that Brexit will no...