Snacks: Digestible Weekly Labour News – Issue 22
Read the twenty second edition of our weekly update of Italian labour law.
Article Archive
Oil & Gas newsletter – Issue 1
Welcome to the first edition of Watson Farley & Williams’ global oil & gas newsletter – a publication in which our Energy Sector team reflects on what we are seeing in the Oil & Gas market.
Are flexible working requests about to become more difficult for employers?
On the 23 September 2021, the UK government published an open consultation which considers five ways in which the current legal framework for making flexible working requests could change. We look at what the consultation’s proposals could mean for employers.
Commercial Disputes Weekly – Issue 88
In this week’s Commercial Disputes Weekly look out for two cases on proceedings for contempt of court, what happened when a draft witness statement was shown to the other side before a hearing, and how to draft an unless order.
Temporary windfall profit reduction mechanism on remuneration from electricity production activity in Spain
On 15 September 2021, Royal Decree-Law 17/2021 of 14 September 2021, providing for urgent measures to mitigate the impact of soaring natural gas prices in the retail gas and electricity markets was published in the Spanish Official Gazette and came into force the following day.
Snacks: Digestible Weekly Labour News – Issue 21
Read the twenty first edition of our weekly update of Italian labour law.
Is the UK Government an ‘old fossil’ in protecting the downstream oil market?
This article gives an introduction to The Downstream Oil Resilience Draft Bill 2021, which was presented to the UK Parliament in June 2021, and looks at its implications.
End of life care: Decommissioning offshore installations
With the high numbers of mature oil fields in the North Sea, ownership increasingly in the hands of “late life specialists” and many offshore assets reaching the end of their useful life, decommissioning issues are no doubt a sign of things to come.
Decree No. 34 of 2021 enhances the status of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre
The Ruler of Dubai has issued Decree No. 34 of 2021, significantly reforming and enhancing the status of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre.
Commercial Disputes Weekly – Issue 87
The Commercial Disputes Weekly returns with a number of significant recent decisions from the English courts, not least the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the existence of lawful act economic duress in English law. Plus look out for a number of decisions in the maritime sector, as well as advice on how to plead a case of estoppel by convention.
