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Foreign direct investment (FDI) (Inversión Extranjera Directa) involves the transfer of capital by economic entities from one country to another country, with the intention of establishing businesses or subsidiaries there, as well as acquiring or...
Taking the decision to divorce is clearly a life-changing decision. There are additional considerations when the divorcing couple are nationals of different countries and may be entitled to divorce in either country. There are many things that...
Investment fraud has risen extensively during the Covid-19 lockdown, Action Fraud reported a steep rise in cases with Pauline Smith, head of Action Fraud, commenting " The coronavirus outbreak sadly led to many people losing their job...
Football Index and its subsequent crash is has sent out ripples in all directions. Initially, Football Index was supported by the great and the good. Some of whom are living to regret their close association with the gambling platform. Founded...
The unprecedented circumstance of lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic has placed an intolerable strain on marriages already pressure leading, in many situations, to marriage breakdown. Where the couple are nationals of different countries when the couple...
Football Index, the betting platform that is now suspended, was always regarded as a risky unsustainable enterprise by the broader gambling industry. It is reported in the Guardian today that Football Index was highlighted to the Gambling Commission ...
In the current economic climate, businesses are battered by the effects of Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic. All businesses have to keep strict control of all aspects of their finances, especially during difficult times. A business faced with a...
The Italian tax authorities ( Agenzia delle Entrate ) have been promoting the new enhanced non-dom rules since 2017 in the hope of attracting high net worth individuals ( HNWI) including successful business executives, sportspeople, artists and fashion...
The gambling platform Football Index drastically slashed the share price on their site causing an unprecedented crash leaving many users looking at big losses, some furious users losing their life savings. Football Index, the so-called “real money...
Time and costs are two vital elements of formal legal proceedings that tend to create concern and attention from prospective clients seeking to resolve disputes. Nevertheless, what is often overlooked is the immediacy from which one must approach formal...
Of all the problems the workplace dynamic can present, bullying can be one of the most difficult to deal with. Workplace bullying is defined by Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service . (ACAS) as “offensive, intimidating,...
Reputations can be damaged in many ways, but few can be more upsetting than the sharing of sexually explicit images on the internet. Whilst it is already illegal to actually share such images without the express permission of the subject and with the...
The Spanish government has drafted proposals aimed at bringing in a number of resourceful changes to opening a business in Spain which will reduce both the financial and administrative responsibilities when setting up a new business. The reality of the...
The lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic has seen an increase, not only in divorce but in parental child abduction. When a married couple is composed of two different nationalities and divorce rears its head it is not uncommon for one parent to...
The government has now set out guidance as to the proposed easing of the lockdown rules , whilst the immediate advice is still to work from home if at all possible, within very few months employers will be asking their staff to return to the workplace....
The unanimous Supreme Court landmark ruling that Uber drivers should be designated as workers and not as “self-employed” provides the drivers with a new raft of basic rights such as paid holiday, rest breaks and to be paid the national minimum...
A Power of Attorney has more than one function, enabling another person to assume responsibility for another person’s affairs when that person, known as the doner, has lost the capacity to make lucid decisions; or act for a donor when they are unable...
The vast majority of people are aware that personal, often sensitive, data about them is retained by a number of organisations. The steady move towards online shopping, amplified by the global lockdown, has resulted in a far greater number of people adding...
Italy has always been an extremely popular destination for both for summer holidays and as a retirement relocation. The more relaxed way of life, the cuisine and the climate are tempting. After a year of lockdown, without holidays or much...
Despite a Supreme Court judgment in the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) business interruption test case being overwhelmingly in support of the policyholders, it seems there is still considerable mileage for disputes over coverage to continue...
