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By Mary B Langowski, Rebecca Jones McKnight, Kristen E Ratcliff and So-Eun Lee More than two years after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance on ‘mobile medical applications’, the agency recently issued its greatly anticipated final guidance. As the FDA considered comments from stakeholders during this prolonged review period, many in the […]

By Evan M Migdail and Steven R Phillips Congressional sources indicate that a deal might not come together politically until very close to the 17–18 October deadline at which Treasury secretary Jack Lew has warned Congress that, absent of additional borrowing authority, the US could default on some of its obligations. There are indications that […]

Levying distress means ‘sending in the bailiffs’ to seize a tenant’s goods in order to recover arrears of rent. Distress is being replaced by Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR). This update looks at key features of the change and what this means for landlords and tenants. Levying distress allows a landlord to take possession of […]

In July 2013, the first English swaps mis-selling case reached the Court of Appeal. The appellants, John Green and Paul Rowley (GR), had hoped to overturn an earlier High Court judgment that had dismissed their claim in its entirety. Their appeal failed. The Court of Appeal has just published its written judgment. GR had a […]

Loyal readers of DLA Piper’s The Financial Report know that generally the discussion and analysis commentary focuses on a particular newsworthy item, issue or event affecting the regulation of the financial services industry. It is ironic that in the midst of the federal government shutdown, there seems to be a plethora of such newsworthy items […]

Bernard Thorogood of No5 Chambers has been instructed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to conduct the prosecution of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust for health and safety offences arising from aspects of the extensive problems at the trust. This offence concerns the failure to effectively manage systems for record keeping and the transfer […]

Audrey Williams, a partner at Eversheds, has commented on the news that the Home Office will consider encouraging whistleblowing by financial incentives in cases involving fraud, bribery and corruption and enabling whistleblowers to receive a share of financial penalties levied against a company guilty of fraud against the government. Williams said: ‘A very real dilemma is […]

Ofcom has announced that mobile network operators may have to pay drastically larger annual licence fees to the UK for the right to use the 900MHz and 1,800MHz spectrum bands. James Walsh, partner and telecoms expert at Eversheds, said that while the figures seem high, they do not appear to be largely disproportionate to the fees […]