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Winter2013 Robert Leeder,


Policy and Committees Coordinator


Policy and Committees Coordinator’s Report


Since late September 2013, the CLLS Specialist Committees have responded to the following consultations:


• BIS: “Competition Regime: draft secondary legislation - part 2”


• CMA: “Cartel Offence Prosecution Guidance”; “Competition Act 1998: CMA Guidance and Rules of Procedure for investigation procedures under the Competition Act 1998”; “Regulated Industries: Guidance on concurrent application of competition law to regulated industries”


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Defra: “Biodiversity Offsetting in England”


• European Commission: “Consultation on a new European approach to business failure and insolvency”


• FCA CP 13/5: “Review of the client assets regime for investment business”


• HMT: “Secondary legislation for Non- Bank resolution regimes”


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Judiciary of England & Wales, and Tribunals Judiciary: “Chancery Modernisation Review: Provisional Report”


• LSB: “Chairs of regulatory bodies: Consultation on an amendment to the


Internal Governance Rules to require that the Chairs of the Boards of the regulatory arms of each applicable approved regulator be a lay person”; “Increasing flexibility in legal education and training: Consultation on proposals for draft statutory guidance to be issued under section 162 of the Legal Services Act 2007”


• MoJ: “Costs protection in defamation and privacy claims: the Government’s proposals”; “Judicial Review: proposals for further reform”


• PRA: “Schemes of arrangement by general insurance firms” (CP6/13); “Capital extractions by run-off firms within the general insurance sector” (CP7/13)


• Sentencing Council: “Fraud, Bribery and Money Laundering Offences Guideline Consultation”


• The Insolvency Service: “Red Tape Challenge - changes to insolvency law to reduce unnecessary regulation and simplify procedures”


All of these submissions are available on the Committees’ webpages, accessible via http://www.citysolicitors.org.uk. See also the reports from the Chairs of the Financial Law, Regulatory Law, Revenue Law and Training Committees, which appear in this edition.


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