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  • Employment and pensions: Italy lifts border restrictions

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Italy has lifted all border restrictions on airline passengers travelling to and from France, Germany, Portugal, the Benelux countries and Spain. These countries are signatories of the Schengen Accord,...

  • Statements of case in patent revocation proceedings

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Statements of case in patent revocation proceedings, but still only exceptionally This was a petition to revoke Riker Laboratories Inc's patent. The petitioner applied to the Court under Order 18 Rule...

  • Competition and trade law: Woodpulp decision reviewed

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Main contacts: Richard Taylor, David Marks, Sue Hankey and Richard Eccles (Brussels) Woodpulp decision reviewed The Court of First Instance (CFI) has overruled a 1984 Decision of the Commission. The Commission...

  • Recent news and developments: State guarantees

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Article 92 of the EC Treaty prohibits member states from granting state aid, including state guarantees, which would distort competition. If a member state wishes to give a guarantee which could be interpreted...

  • The potential for the rebirth of the scrip dividend

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Mark Nichols plots the potential for the rebirth of the scrip The latest Finance Act confirms the demise of the repayable tax credit, immediately for pension funds and from April 1999 for others including...

  • The Finance Act heralds changes in the UK structured finance market

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    reports Simon Meredith Following the enactment of the second Finance Act of 1997, it would seem that UK preference share financing in its "traditional" and more recent "FID" forms has been well and truly...

  • European legislation update: Utility Models

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    The Commission has put forward a draft directive on utility models, something which the UK still does not wish to see appear - but it looks as though it will go through one day.

  • General corporate: Communication on intra-EU investment

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    The Commission has issued a Communication on what it blandly calls intra-EU investment. In fact, the problem is far from bland and covers in particular: bans on investors from another Member State acquiring...

  • Insurer liable for claimants' costs even though limit of indemnity exhausted

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Facts The Defendant caused a fire on the Plaintiff's premises, resulting in damage in excess of £1 million. The Defendant was covered under a household contents policy taken out by his mother with...

  • New Labour, new approach to tax?

    United Kingdom 18.02.1998
    Mark Nichols looks at the first few weeks of the new Labour government One of the key themes to arise out of Gordon Brown's first Budget is the attitude of the Labour government to tax avoidance. The last...

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