12/12/2022
Reform of Guernsey's insolvency regime has long been discussed and a process of reforming the Companies Law to expand and improve the insolvency legislation has been underway leading to the 2017 formal approval of proposals for reform.
12/12/2022
Consumer law experts said businesses should review their selling and marketing practices and could face increased compliance risks.
12/12/2022
Exempt companies in liquidation from the requirement to have their accounts audited.
12/09/2022
The BVI residency requirement for a voluntary liquidator applies for appointments made after 1 January 2023 and in cases where joint voluntary liquidators are appointed, only one must be resident in the BVI.
12/09/2022
The Department of Health and Social Care has said 91 such diagnostic centres are already operational and have delivered more than 2.4 million tests, checks and scans since July 2021.
12/09/2022
To mitigate these issues, the regulator has proposed amending the current financial services activity of “providing credit” to expressly include those who finance the purchase of goods and services, bringing BNPL providers firmly in scope of t
12/09/2022
The Council's compromise text now expressly provides for a right of full compensation for victims of human rights or environmental adverse impacts.
12/08/2022
The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill (5 pages / 101KB PDF), proposed by Yasmin Qureshi MP, will require employers to consult with an employee before rejecting a flexible working request, and make a final decision within two months instead of t
12/08/2022
The priority position with respect to the security will relate only to the specific segregated portfolio and will have no bearing on that of any other segregated portfolio.
12/08/2022
The framework, which was published after an industry consultation, also contains guidance to limit liquidity mismatch in property funds.
12/08/2022
The proposals have been made following the regulatory body’s recent Financial Lives survey, which found around 4.2 million people in the UK hold more than £10,000 in investable assets mostly or entirely cash and are open to investing some of i
12/08/2022
The acquisition will enable Mourant to provide clients with legal, corporate and entity management services from Luxembourg, one of the world's leading international finance centres and the second largest global funds centre.
12/07/2022
Guernsey's companies law includes many English companies law principles
12/07/2022
Firms which approve financial promotions for unauthorised firms should review and consider these proposals carefully.
12/07/2022
The guidance is entitled “Recommendations 1/2022 on the Application for Approval and on the elements and principles to be found in Controller Binding Corporate Rules (Art. 47 GDPR” (the “Recommendations”).
12/06/2022
The means utilized to achieve these aims often interfere with and/or provide exceptions to the enforcement of individuals’ rights to privacy and confidentiality, as are recognized in democracies across the globe.
12/06/2022
The UPC is being set up to provide a dedicated judicial system for litigating new unitary patents.
12/06/2022
Platform workers are generally not classified as employees in Singapore.
12/06/2022
Participants in the Rule 144A fixed-income security market, who have been grappling with how to ensure compliance with the Rule, now have an additional two years to consider the issue.
12/06/2022
Keenan said both cases demonstrated the importance of the obligation on directors to act in good faith in what they believe to be the best interests of the company.