14 May 2012
Two nationally-renowned teams at Burges Salmon are celebrating being shortlisted in two separate high profile UK award schemes this month.
11 April 2012
Burges Salmon has advised the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on its appointment of Babcock Dounreay Partnership Limited as the parent body organisation for its former research and development site at Dounreay in Caithness, Scotland.
04 April 2012
Leading UK law firm Burges Salmon has made up seven new partners from within the firm, as it continues to go from strength to strength in both UK and international markets.
23 January 2012
Burges Salmon has advised the National Composites Centre on its membership of, and funding from, the High-Value Manufacturing Technology and Innovation Centre (HVMTIC).
13 January 2012
Tim Heywood, Director (Public Sector & Procurement) at Burges Salmon, addresses some of the myths surrounding public sector procurement in his article ‘Myth Buster’ featured in Supply Management.
13 January 2012
In November 2011, Richard Hooper was appointed to lead an independent feasibility study into the possible introduction of a Digital Copyright Exchange ("DCE"), and on 4th January he issued a Call for Evidence as part of that study.
11 January 2012
Competition law specialist, Matthew O’Regan, joins Burges Salmon as a partner this month from the Brussels office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, bringing with him extensive expertise of all aspects of UK, EU and international competition law.
04 January 2012
Following 4 years of discussion and negotiation between Member States, the Consumer Rights Directive was finally adopted by the EU Council of Ministers in October 2011. It covers business to consumer sales of both goods and services and aims to simplify and harmonise existing consumer laws.
14 December 2011
The competition team at Burges Salmon has supported the Co-operative Group in a successful appeal against the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
01 December 2011
Burges Salmon has advised the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on its agreement to transfer an NDA-owned site at Capenhurst in Cheshire to URENCO, a major uranium enrichment supplier which currently occupies an adjacent nuclear-licensed site.
30 November 2011
Any farming business needs to be aware of the effects of competition law. Guidance issued by the Office of Fair Trading in November 2011 clarifies the law for farming businesses.
11 November 2011
Accomplished commercial litigator Mark Gay joins leading UK law firm Burges Salmon as a partner, bringing with him broad High Court and arbitration experience, including a specialism in media and sport.
27 September 2011
The European Commission is working to further the Digital Agenda and on 24 May put forward a proposal for a Directive on orphan works as the first part of a two-pronged approach to further the development of digital libraries in Europe.
12 August 2011
Burges Salmon's competition team has advised major dairy processor The Cheese Company throughout the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) long-running investigation into the retail pricing of dairy products.
04 August 2011
In its response to the Hargreaves Review of the UK intellectual property regime, the Government has indicated that it will make proposals for broadening the exceptions to copyright, including the introduction of new exceptions for limited private copying and parody.
25 July 2011
Providers of online marketplaces may lose the protection of the hosting defence by offering assistance to their users.
21 June 2011
The Bribery Act 2010 will come fully into force on 1 July 2011. Along with the Commencement Order, the Secretary of State has made the Bribery Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2011.
26 May 2011
The much discussed Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 came in to force today (26 May 2011) implementing a 2009 EC Directive. They potentially impact all organisations who use cookies on their website.
18 May 2011
The Hargreaves report, commissioned by David Cameron in November 2010 with the aim of developing proposals for making the UK's intellectual property framework more supportive of entrepreneurism, growth and innovation, was published 18 May 2011.
31 March 2011
Following delays due to heavy criticism from British business, the Ministry of Justice has published Guidance on the "adequate procedures" that all commercial organisations will need to put in place in order to protect themselves against committing the controversial "corporate offence" under Section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010.
18 March 2011
Top 50 UK law firm Burges Salmon has appointed four new partners from a range of practice areas across the firm. These appointments will bring the total number of partners to 69. They take effect from 1 May, 2011.
01 February 2011
The government has announced that the controversial Bribery Act 2010 will not now be implemented in April, as originally planned. The government declined to provide a revised implementation date, simply saying that the Act will come into force three months after the Ministry of Justice's guidance on the "adequate procedures" defence has been published. While this guidance was due to be published early this year, it is now not clear when this will happen.
07 December 2010
Burges Salmon advised Reliance Secure Task Management Limited on the contract awarded to it by the United Kingdom Border Agency to provide escorting services of detainees and the associated transport services.
23 November 2010
Legal professional privilege is a hot topic in the legal press following the recent decisions in Akzo Nobel and in Prudential v HMRC. The cases looked at the extent to which the advice of in-house counsel is protected and whether advice given by professionals other than lawyers was legally privileged.
04 November 2010
Burges Salmon acted for Eurostar in the case brought against it by ALSTOM Transport.
01 October 2010
Burges Salmon acted for Milk Link Limited and Westbury Dairies Limited in relation to creation of a new tripartite joint venture to operate the UK's largest bulk butter and milk powder processing plant.
28 July 2010
In its new role as custodian of licensing, the Home Office today launched a consultation containing proposals to shake up the licensing regime through the Police Reform and Social Responsibilty Bill.
14 July 2010
Restrictive covenants affecting real property must comply fully with UK competition law from 6th April 2011. This includes covenants in existing documents as well as those made after that date, whether contained in leases, transfers or other property deeds and agreements. Those which do not comply will be void and may give rise to other penalties for the parties after next April.
28 April 2010
The RAIL 100 Breakfast Club is a prominent business networking and social club for the rail industry’s top managers which meets four times a year in Simpson’s-in-the-Strand.
30 March 2010
Successful conclusion to the disposal of the nuclear fuel business at Springfields to Westinghouse Electric
29 January 2010
One of the longest-running and most complicated disputes in the technology sector has finally come to an end, with the Technology and Construction Court finding EDS guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation. BSkyB expects that EDS will be ordered to pay them damages of around £200 million.
16 October 2009
HMRC has announced that anti-avoidance legislation will be included in the next Financial Bill, but which will have retrospective effect from 15 October 2009, and which affects debt buybacks.
10 September 2009
We have been appointed to the legal panel for Avon Fire Authority, our sixth client in the ‘blue light’ sector.
19 June 2009
We have been selected to work with the London Development Agency.
24 March 2009
Our Environment Team produced this webcast which looks at decommissioning and mothballing manufacturing plant.
19 March 2009
David Hall, who leads our Finance Litigation Practice, spoke to AccountancyAge about happens when companies go into administration, focusing on the supply chain and new insolvency rules. You can watch the videos here.
30 January 2009
The Competition Commission has cleared the acquisition by Long Clawson Dairy Limited of the Stilton and speciality cheese business of Dairy Crest plc after accepting the failing firm defence applied.
05 August 2008
We advised The Carbon Trust on the recently launched Carbon Trust Standard.