According to a report from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), planned regulatory reforms could save businesses some £300m a year, or £1.5bn over five years.
Read moreECHR Upholds UK Law Banning Sympathy Strikes
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has upheld a UK law preventing so-called ‘sympathy strikes’, which have been banned by UK legislation since the early 1990s.
Read moreECJ Overturns The Data Retention Directive
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared the 2006 Data Retention Directive, which has been described as a “snooper’s charter”, illegal, saying that it “interferes in a particularly serious manner with the fundamental rights to respect for private life…
Read moreIP Enforcement Will Get Tougher In The UK
The UK government will continue to take a hard line on intellectual property (IP) theft, as IP rights are needed to support technological innovation as the cornerstone of the economic recovery.
Read moreNew Employment Tribunal Law
Today (April 7) is the first working day for new employment tribunal rules, which have been introduced in a bid to reduce the number of tribunals, as, according to ministers, this would avoid “stress, time delays and excessive costs”.
Read morePlanning Law Changes Being Investigated
MPs concerned that Government planning targets may be “driving perverse behaviour” by councils in England have launched an enquiry into the effects of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), introduced in 2012.
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