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Challenges to the validity of local council levies
The way that local councils issue special levies, and deal with errors made in the passing of those levies, has come under spotlight in the recent High Court of Australia decision.
United Kingdom | Publication | May 2020
The operational resilience of all firms is now being significantly tested, across people, systems, controls and processes. All firms are experiencing some kind of issues to manage or at least be mindful of, and the crisis is also throwing up new and different challenges to meet. Retail customers can be particularly affected, and fair customer treatment is now brought into sharp relief. Expectations around this will evolve as the crisis does, and being both agile and consistent will be very important for firms over the coming period.
From a principles basis, there are broadly six key stages recognised by regulators:
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These are also reinforced by various communications from regulators, including the recent FCA Business Plan.
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The way that local councils issue special levies, and deal with errors made in the passing of those levies, has come under spotlight in the recent High Court of Australia decision.
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On 22 February 2024, Belgium became the EU frontrunner in the fight against ecocides by being the first EU member state to criminalise ecocide, in the new Belgian Criminal Code.
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The Pensions Regulator’s General Code has arrived and will apply from March 27, 2024. In this briefing, we take a step back from the detail. We set out why the General Code really matters and how pension scheme trustees can best make it work for them.
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