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NewsSupporting the Legal Profession in Afghanistan
Tony Fisher is the Chief Executive Officer and Partnership Member at Fisher Jones Greenwoods Solicitors and former Chair of the Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales. In this Viewpoint article, Tony provides a succinct overview of the Law Societies of Europe and Bar Associations’ approach ...
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Migration – A view from the EU
David Conlan Smyth, Senior Counsel of the Bar of Ireland and the Former Chair of Migration Law Committee, CCBE, provides an analysis of the EU’s view of the impact of the migration of Afghans fleeing the Taliban, the consequence for our lawyers’ project in Greece, and emphasises the importance of ...
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British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) publishes its autumn courses offer
For autumn 2021, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) has expanded its programme of short courses to bring a wider range of international law topics to participants from across the world. Each course is convened and taught by international experts from BIICL’s own team in collaboration with ...
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NewsThe Impact of Contact Sport Injuries
In July 2021, the UK Parliament published a report based on a four-month inquiry conducted by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. The report was commissioned after an increasing number of sportspeople announced they had been diagnosed with dementia and various other long-term neurological issues.
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NewsSports Broadcasting: Looking to the Future
Avid sport enthusiasts will recall that, less than a decade ago, one only needed to purchase a subscription to a single sports channel in order to view almost all live events being broadcast. Nowadays, frustration is growing as rights are being sold to a multiplicity of broadcasters.
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The European Super League and Competition Law
On 18 April 2021, twelve football clubs across Europe announced the creation of the European Super League. Although most of the clubs have since withdrawn, the idea of a breakaway competition opened a discussion as to whether this could be legally challenged, and could sanctions be placed on football players ...
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NewsGambling Advertising & Football
On 2 July 2020 the Select Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry published its report with an emphasis on sports and gambling advertising.
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NewsBrexit Impact on Football Player Transfers
The new rules for recruiting football players from within the European Union took effect from January 2021 and this will have a significant impact on the English Premier League.
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NewsAnti-Money Laundering Legislative Package
The fundamental nature of financial crime remains the same however the methods of concealing the gains from financial crime have changed considerably. This has been largely due to the development of technology, accompanied with the ambiguity and inconsistency with anti-money laundering governance across European Member States.
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NewsPost-COVID Reforms to Financial Fair Play by Dr. Ryan Gauthier
Like all other areas of society, sport was greatly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Following an initial shutdown, professional sporting competitions began to re-open. Professional football was hit particularly hard as matches were eventually held in empty stadiums. With no fans buying tickets, merchandise, or confectionary items, amongst other impacts, ...
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NewsEuropean Commission publishes ‘Fit for 55’ package to meet climate ambitions
The European Commission has adopted a package of proposals aimed at reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. The proposals, which were published on 14th July 2021, seek to make the European Green Deal a reality by ensuring a ‘concrete roadmap’ for ...
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Case law digest - July 2021
This month’s case law digest contains a number of important constitutional cases on judicial independence and the duty of national courts to request CJEU rulings. It also has updates on the principle of solidarity amongst Member States; the rights of economically inactive Union citizens to be affiliated to the public ...
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Commission publishes the 2021 EU Justice Scoreboard
On 8 July, the Commission published its 2021 EU Justice Scoreboard which is an annual overview of the functioning of the justice systems in all EU Member States. To this end, the scoreboard focuses on three areas:
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Commission publishes updated reform recommendations for regulation in professional services of 2017
On 9 July, the European Commission published its updated recommendations for reform of regulation of seven professional business services (including lawyers). The recommendations build on their previous version, published in 2017, and summarise progress made by member states in creating a more business and innovation friendly regulatory environment. The objective ...
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NewsOpen letter supporting UK Lugano Convention application highlights access to justice concerns
An open letter signed by non-governmental organisations (NGO’s) and legal experts across the United Kingdom and European Union has been published calling on the EU to allow UK accession to the 2007 Lugano Convention.
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Case law digest June 2021
This month we bring you the selection of several cases heard before the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), in particular Facebook Ireland, Venezuela v Council and the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland (on settled status of EU citizens in the UK).
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Surveillance Case Law: Key Developments
There have been two significant surveillance case law updates in May/June 2021: Big Brother Watch & Ors v United Kingdom and Centrum För Rättvisa v Sweden.
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Cryptofinance: Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA)
The term cryptocurrency has entered our everyday parlance to such an extent that it seems almost unmissable when reading the news. The issue facing governments is, of course, regulation. How does one begin to regulate a market which is relatively ‘new’, highly susceptible to volatility and appears to change almost ...
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National AI Insights: OECD and EU Commission Joint Report
Although governments have been aware of the need to utilise and implement AI, policies specifically relating to this are a relatively new phenomenon. As a result, there is a wide discrepancy between different countries’ approaches. In 2019, the OECD published five key AI Principles which were designed to act as ...
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Trustworthy AI: Developing an OECD Database
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in society and its presence in shaping government policy is no longer a theoretical promise. On the contrary, almost every government now has significant swathes of its GDP devoted to promoting and developing AI systems which can be implemented in society. Accordingly, the need ...
