One of the UK’s largest ticket re-selling sites, Viagogo, has reached a major settlement with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on the eve of a widely anticipated court battle. The settlement is founded on Viagogo agreeing to a ‘comprehensive…
On 29 October 2018 the Chancellor of the Exchequer presented the Budget 2018. We have compiled the highlights and key points that individuals should note. Budget highlights for private clients The personal allowance will be raised to £12,500 from April 2019, one…
The individual who was made the subject of the UK’s first Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) in February this year has been named as Zamira Hajiyeva. She is the wife of Jahangir Hajiyev, the former chairman of the International Bank of…
In October 2017 an English company, CMOC, discovered that it had been the victim of business email compromise fraud. Once hackers had obtained access to the company’s email system they sent multiple prompts to its bank, the Bank of China,…
Earlier this week, the FCA imposed a fine on Tesco Personal Finance Plc (‘Tesco Bank’) in the amount of £16.4 million, pursuant to section 206 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as the result of its handling of…
The corporate world can be a ‘double-edged sword’. On the one hand, there are a number of different ways in which commerce is conducted, meaning that opportunities to conduct business are available and varied like never before. Conversely, due to…
Breaches of the SRA Accounts Rules 2011 can happen in any firm, no matter how well managed. But there are things you can do to minimise their occurrence. The breaches can range from minor bookkeeping errors to sophisticated employee frauds. No…
The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has today (5 June 2018) handed down a judgment emphasising that website owners and fan-page administrators must be alert to the privacy implications of third party scripts operating on their websites. These owners and…
Data has become the most valuable commodity of the digital era. In Europe, the value of the data commodity is thought to be around the €50 billion mark and projections suggest that this figure could rise to €111 billion by 2020. With such…
Facebook billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and Chief Executive of Facebook was hauled over hot coals before the US Government to explain Facebook’s (alleged) breach of data privacy. Silicon Valley Zuckerberg was forced to answer questions about the use of personal data and…
