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UK publishes draft legislation and guidance for digital services tax On the same day as the US begins an investigation into whether the 3% digital services tax (DST) adopted by the French is damaging to US businesses with a view to taking retaliatory action, the UK publishes for consultation draft legislation and draft...
Slaughter and May's Innovation training programme highly commended We are really pleased that our Innovation training programme was highly commended at this year's Legal Education & Training (LETG) Awards.  Our Innovation and Learning & Development teams have put a huge amount of work into a training programme which...
Is reputation still king when it comes to a data breach? We always expected the GDPR to be a game changer in terms of raising the risk profile (and reputational impact) of data and cyber breaches, something demonstrated with yesterday’s news of the ICO’s intention to fine BA £183 million for its data breach....
Dutch government interprets ECJ's Danish decisions On 14 June 2019, the Dutch government responded to questions raised by members of the Dutch parliament about the impact of the decisions of the ECJ of 26 February 2019. In these decisions, the ECJ essentially held that Member States are under an...
Zoom, Slack, Looker...Enterprise tech cashes in. Is legal tech next? For several months, I had 5-10 calls a week with a Fortune 500 client based in several offices around the world. For each call, I was sent a Zoom invite containing dial-in details. These looked like every other conference call invitation but with a big...
French Digital Services Tax: final adjustments prior to enactment of the Bill? On 26 June 2019, the Commission Mixte Paritaire, a parliamentary committee composed of an equal number of representatives from the French National Assembly and the French Senate, agreed on the text of the Bill introducing the French Digital Services Tax...
Irish Tax Appeals Commission Decision Relating To a Delaware LLC and Irish Group Loss Relief In a recent decision, concerning claims for group loss relief by Irish subsidiary companies of a Delaware LLC, the Irish Tax Appeals Commission (TAC) found that (i) the LLC parent was a "company" and (ii) adopting a purposive interpretation, the LLC...
Security by design – is cyber certification the answer? New cyber rules which come into force today introduce, for the first time, EU-wide rules for cyber certification of products, processes and services and encourage 'security by design'. They also give ENISA, the EU’s main cyber agency, a new name (the EU...
A graduate’s guide to legal tech work experience Adam Hill, future trainee, on his legal tech work experience with Collaborate cohort member, StructureFlow.  During my legal vacation schemes, I witnessed several supervising solicitors spend countless hours fiddling with grid-lines in Powerpoint, raging...
Lib(e)ra(tion)? Probably not from regulation On Tuesday the Libra Association, an association established by Facebook, published a white paper setting out a proposal for a new simple global currency with somewhat unambitious aims such as to "reinvent money" and "transform the global economy". The...