Canada: 2014 In Review – A Look Back At The Cases And Legislative Changes That Impacted Your Workplace

2014 saw a number of important decisions and legislative changes in the area of labour and employment law.    Over the course of the year, CCP blogged these developments and here we provide our “top 10” cases and the most significant legislative changes of the past year with links to the original blogs.  Enjoy!!
Top Labour and Employment Cases of 2014

Hryniak v. Mauldin  – The Supreme Court broadened the scope of summary judgment proceedings and provided […]

By | February 2nd, 2015 ||

Malta: 2014 In Review: A Year Of Continued Dynamism And Growth

Changes in EU regulation and further consolidation across the financial services sector have continued to drive growth in financial services during 2014 as total number of licences topped the 800 mark.

Investment services registered high levels of growth particularly with the issue of 17 new Category 2 licences, an indication of the strong expansion taking place in the asset management industry. During the year, 22 managers were issued with new or revised licences to operate […]

By | February 2nd, 2015 ||

Start Asking Questions About Guernsey QROPS Now Rather Than Later

Is your client locked into a Guernsey QROPS? Our head of international pensions has a word of warning.
With the pension market opening up as the UK Government moves to create “Pension Freedom”, it would appear that some Guernsey schemes might seek to prevent those who have transferred their UK Pension Funds to a (now closed) GuernseyQROPS from taking advantage of the new regulations.

One Guernsey provider commented (extract):

“We are starting to see requests from other QROPS clients […]

By | January 31st, 2015 ||