This paper is based on a talk given by Philip Ryley and John Virgo to the Association of Pension Lawyers at their annual conference in Bournemouth in November 1998. In it the authors provide an outline of some of the key legal issues that have arisen out of the pensions mis‐selling litigation.

A new regulatory regime for issuing, and enforcing compliance with, accounting standards has been established in the UK. It includes an enforcement body, the Financial Reporting Review Panel (FRRP), which is responsible for examining alleged departures from the Companies Act and accounting...

In the Netherlands new legislation has come into force in order to deal with insider trading. The legislator followed a new strategy. This time, instead of a provision with well‐defined criteria, a sort of catch‐all provision was created. The aim was to avoid difficulties in proving the...

The proposed contents of the planned Financial Services and Markets Act have been revealed in the draft bill (FSMB) that was introduced into Parliament on 17 June, 1999 and in various announcements by the government. On that basis, the Act is expected to require the Financial Services Authority...

This paper sets out some of the issues facing a firm in attempting to reduce the costs of compliance and concentrates on the operations performed by a firm's supervision teams and their interaction with the supervisors from the Financial Services Authority (FSA). It concentrates on those areas...

A number of articles have been written about information technology (IT) law aspects of the euro, and there is the implication that there is something special about euro implementation from the IT law point of view. The conclusion in this paper is that, even though the euro is not ‘just...

The applicants in this case were the liquidators of Branston & Gothard Ltd. Branston & Gothard Ltd (Branston & Gothard) were stockbrokers authorised to conduct investment business under the Financial Services Act 1986 by virtue of their membership of the Securities and Futures Authority (SFA)....

In a 1999 Court of Appeal decision it was held that s.47 of the Financial Services Act 1986 (the Act) did not create a new, wider duty of disclosure than that already existing at common law or in equity.

This review considers selected websites of interest to anyone concerned with electronic commerce and its regulation. This is an area of growing interest within the financial services industry, as the continuing developments in technology, such as the advent and increasing use of the Internet,...