Episodios

  • 15: Australia’s electricity infrastructure challenge, and a carbon credit tax conundrum

    15: Australia’s electricity infrastructure challenge, and a carbon credit tax conundrum
    Jul 23 2024
    Against the ticking clock of ageing coal power infrastructure, Australia grapples with the challenges of building a new power network to distribute clean energy says Leanne Olden; and Eloise Walker tells us about the surprise tax liabilities buried in the carbon credit system. Never miss a story, sign up for business law updates.
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    20 m
  • 14: New government immediately lifts England's onshore wind ban, and £18m court ruling might mean earlier UK insolvencies

    14: New government immediately lifts England's onshore wind ban, and £18m court ruling might mean earlier UK insolvencies
    Jul 9 2024
    The new UK government has removed conditions that made it effectively impossible to build new onshore wind capacity in England, but there won't be an immediate goldrush says Gary McGovern. And directors of struggling companies in the UK might have to trigger insolvency earlier than previously thought after an £18m ruling, says Charles Maunder. Never miss a story, sign up for business law updates.
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    23 m
  • 13: The UPC’s first year, and how Germany’s court digitisation could cause rise in mass claims

    13: The UPC’s first year, and how Germany’s court digitisation could cause rise in mass claims
    Jun 25 2024
    One year into the new system governing patents in Europe, Judith Krens tells us that the UPC has been a success in unusual and unpredictable ways, and Alessandro Capone says that companies in Germany can expect to face more mass actions because of court digitisation plans. Never miss a story, sign up for business law updates.
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    19 m
  • 12: The impact European Parliament elections will have on the EU's climate and trade policies

    12: The impact European Parliament elections will have on the EU's climate and trade policies
    Jun 11 2024
    Victories for right wing parties in many seats of the European Parliament could spell trouble for some EU green policies, and is likely to boost support for more protectionist trade policy, says Mark Ferguson. Never miss a story, sign up for business law updates.
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    16 m
  • 11: The surprisingly wide scope of new EU sustainability law, and how the UK could set global self-driving car legal standards

    11: The surprisingly wide scope of new EU sustainability law, and how the UK could set global self-driving car legal standards
    May 28 2024
    The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) requires companies to reduce environmental and human rights damage, and Laura Ayre explains how it will govern the behaviour of more companies than you might think; and Leo Parkington examines whether the UK’s new self-driving car law will set legal standards for the rest of the world. Never miss a story, sign up for business law updates.
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    18 m
  • 10: Inside an AI company's copyright defence, and how finance firms can cope with AI regulation

    10: Inside an AI company's copyright defence, and how finance firms can cope with AI regulation
    May 14 2024
    Cerys Wynn-Davies uses a court filing to analyse how AI companies are defending themselves against huge copyright infringement claims, and Luke Scanlon sets out the steps finance firms need to take to stay on the right side of growing finance-specific AI regulation, ahead of delivering training for financial services senior managers.
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    21 m
  • 9: How businesses can be heard in the world's election year, and South Africa's challenges implementing new anti-corruption law.

    9: How businesses can be heard in the world's election year, and South Africa's challenges implementing new anti-corruption law.
    Apr 30 2024
    Nearly half the world's population will vote this year in national elections, so Andrew Henderson guides us through how companies can make sure they are heard by brand new governments; and Edward James outlines the challenges South Africa faces with its new anti-corruption law, just weeks after a senior government figure was charged with corruption. Never miss a story, sign up for business law updates.
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    21 m
  • 8: Analysing European court's bombshell climate ruling: will a rash of national cases follow?

    8: Analysing European court's bombshell climate ruling: will a rash of national cases follow?
    Apr 16 2024
    Valérie van den Berg and David Thorneloe tell us just how big the impact will be of last week’s European ruling that Swizterland’s failure to act on climate change violates citizens’ human rights. Will it spark a wave of new actions in Europe's national courts? Never miss a story, sign up for business law updates.
    We examine the impact of this landmark ruling from the European Court of Human Rights, which is binding on all 46 signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights.
    We look at precedents from other national courts, and at how the law has developed to accommodate human rights-based challenges to governments, regulators and even companies based on their action or inaction on climate change mitigation.
    We explore how future challenges might be affected by this ruling.
    0:00 Introduction
    0:42 News headlines
    3:30 Feature on ECHR court rtuling that the Swiss govermnent breaches the human rights of a group of older women by not implementing sufficient climate change mitigation policies.
    6:14 Why this case succeeded
    7:05 How a 2019 Dutch case laid the groundwork for this ruling
    9:27 Each case needs to be specific about who's been harmed and how
    11:51 The impact of the judgement in the 46 signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights
    14:09 How the ECHR ruling establish
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    17 m