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Lexis+ Energy: Competition law and energy
Susanna Rogers, Mark Mills and Jack Jeffries from our London antitrust and competition team have updated the Lexis+ Energy practice note on “competition law and energy”.
COVID-19 emergency temporary standards survive legal challenge
United States | Publication | March 2021
A San Francisco Superior Court judge denied requests of employers in two consolidated cases to block the enforcement of California's COVID-19 emergency temporary standards, or ETS, which we have written about previously. As the judge memorably observed: "With the single exception of restrictions on attendance at religious services, which present unique constitutional considerations, no federal or state court in the country has blocked emergency public health orders intended to curb the spread of COVID-19, and the illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths that follow in its wake…. This Court will not be the first. Lives are at stake."
That's a wrap. See you next month for another top five developments for California employers.
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Updated SFO guidance on evaluation of compliance programmes
On November 26, 2025 the SFO published updated guidance on its evaluation of compliance programmes (the Guidance). The Guidance follows on from the updated Corporate Prosecution Guidance published in August (and which was covered in our recent horizon scan), the SFO corporate cooperation guidance published in April (see here), and the Home Office Guidance on reasonable procedures to prevent fraud.
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Paying the Price: Supreme Court rejects “deemed fulfilment”
In King Crude Carriers SA & Ors v Ridgebury November LLC & Ors [2025] UKSC 39, the Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeal and held that the claimant sellers (the Sellers) were not entitled to claim the deposits promised under sale contracts as a debt
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