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Jul 28, 2025

HK’s proposed legal framework for online hailing hire cars

Earlier this month, the Hong Kong Government unveiled its long-anticipated legislative proposal to regulate online hailing hire car services. This legislative proposal will pave the way to remove the legal uncertainty surrounding online hailing hire car services (“Services”) and improve personalised point-to-point transport services in Hong Kong.
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Jul 25, 2025

Legal Privilege – the King has been advised – the Shareholder Rule no longer applies under English Law

Yesterday in a landmark decision, Jardine Strategic Limited v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and others, the Privy Council, on appeal from Bermuda’s Court of Appeal, has changed the law. “The status-based automatic Shareholder Rule is therefore now, and in truth has always been, a rule without justification. Like the emperor wearing no clothes in the folktale, it is time to recognise and declare that the Rule is altogether unclothed” [para 82].  Under English and Bermudian law, shareholders (and former shareholders) are no longer entitled to legally privileged communications belonging to the company …

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Jul 28, 2025
BCLP advised Manzanita Capital on its sale of Space NK to Ulta Beauty
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Jul 28, 2025
FINCEN Postpones AML/CFT Rules for Investment Advisers Until 2028 and Revisits Scope of Such Rules
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Jul 28, 2025
HK’s proposed legal framework for online hailing hire cars
Earlier this month, the Hong Kong Government unveiled its long-anticipated legislative proposal to regulate online hailing hire car services. This legislative proposal will pave the way to remove the legal uncertainty surrounding online hailing hire car services (“Services”) and improve personalised point-to-point transport services in Hong Kong.
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Jul 28, 2025
So, You Want To Join A Public Company Board
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Jul 28, 2025
The UK’s new Arbitration Act comes into force
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Jul 28, 2025
The wait for CATOS continues, but the picture might just be getting clearer
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Jul 27, 2025
Real Estate Ownership by Non-Saudis – Law Now Published
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Jul 25, 2025
Legal Privilege – the King has been advised – the Shareholder Rule no longer applies under English Law
Yesterday in a landmark decision, Jardine Strategic Limited v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and others, the Privy Council, on appeal from Bermuda’s Court of Appeal, has changed the law. “The status-based automatic Shareholder Rule is therefore now, and in truth has always been, a rule without justification. Like the emperor wearing no clothes in the folktale, it is time to recognise and declare that the Rule is altogether unclothed” [para 82].  Under English and Bermudian law, shareholders (and former shareholders) are no longer entitled to legally privileged communications belonging to the company …
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Jul 25, 2025
Minnesota Delays PFAS Reporting Deadline Six Months to July 1, 2026