The Law Commission of England and Wales has published a consultation paper (the Paper) on the recognition and protection of digital assets. The consultation, which closes on 4 November 2022, focuses on the legal treatment of digital assets and recommends law reform to create a third category of personal property – referred to as “data … Read more

The post below was first published on our Fintech notes blog In this regular update, we round-up FinTech-related financial services regulatory developments for the week ending 29 July 2022. Read more

A developer client recently commented “Because what we need now is more uncertainty, right?”, or words to that effect. Uncertainty about what? Planning reform. Because, in spite of “planning” apparently holding back housing and development for years, stymieing the ambitions of renters to get on the property ladder and of many more to have a … Read more

The post below was first published on our Public Law blog. In R (Friends of the Earth Ltd and ors) v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [2022] EWHC 1841 (Admin), the High Court partially upheld a challenge to the Government’s Net Zero Strategy (the “NZS“) under the Climate Change Act 2008 … Read more

The post below was first published on our Fintech notes blog In this regular update, we round-up FinTech-related financial services regulatory developments for the week ending 22 July 2022. Read more

In this regular update, we round-up FinTech-related financial services regulatory developments for the week ending 15 July 2022. Read more

The post below was first published on our Energy notes and Infrastructure notes blogs On 6 July 2022, a day of significant political uncertainty, the Government published its long-awaited Energy Security Bill. Notwithstanding the current political turmoil, this is expected to survive to become the most wide-ranging legislative reform of the UK’s energy market for … Read more