New Commissioners announced at the Law Commission
…(AI) and the digital economy. Sir Nicholas Green, Chair of the Law Commission, said: “We are absolutely delighted to welcome Professor Penney Lewis and Professor Sarah Green to the Law…
Search Results for digital assets
Project: Financial remedies on divorce
…over the division of financial assets, and whether there is a need for a clear set of principles, enshrined in law, to give more certainty to divorcing couples. Whether there…
Review to examine 50-year-old laws on finances after divorce and the ending of a civil partnership
…The discretionary powers given to judges over the division of financial assets, and whether there is a need for a clear set of principles, enshrined in law, to give more…
Goods Mortgages Bill ready to write off unfair law on logbook loans
…straightforward for lenders. Our recommendations would also allow for better use of high-value assets, such as art and antiquities, as security. The Law Commission has now published a draft Bill…
Queen’s Speech confirms that unfair rules on logbook loans are being sent to the scrapheap
…subject to logbook loans. Our recommendations would also allow for better use of high-value assets, such as art and antiquities, as security. In today’s Queen’s Speech the Government confirmed it…
No legal barriers to social investment, but pension schemes still not investing
…new pension assets are to be invested and whether at least a proportion could be invested for the wider social good. Investment in property and infrastructure has the potential to…
Project: Pension Funds and Social Investment
Project status: Complete
…are invested are made by those administering/managing the scheme rather than the individual. The assets in DC schemes are expected to increase sixfold by 2030 to £1.68 trillion, a sum…
Pensions fund reforms set to boost social investment
…2030 the amount invested in defined contribution schemes is expected to total some £1.68 trillion. This raises questions about how the new pension assets are to be invested and whether…
Responses to consultation show future for self-driving passenger vehicles
…Whereas there was general agreement that digital traffic regulation orders would help enormously, other key policies like road pricing, parking charges and quantity controls generated very mixed views. Nicholas…
Search warrants reform to help law enforcement investigate crime
…Crown Prosecution Service, digital devices increasingly provide evidence in criminal trials, yet the legal framework that currently governs the search and seizure of electronic material is no longer adequate and…