Please choose either FMLC papers or FLP papers from the tabs below.
Issue 149: Cross-Border Bank Resolutions
Letter to Mario Nava, DG Internal Market, European Commission commenting on the EC paper entitled "An EU Framework for Cross-Border Crisis Management in the Banking Sector" - January 2010
Issue 145: AIFM Directive: Legal Risks - Report January 2010
Analysis of certain core areas of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive which are capable of giving rise to signficant legal uncertainty
Issues 89/109: Prospectus Directive
Letter to DG, Internal Market & Services, European Commission re FMLC Comments on the Proposal to amend the Prospectus Directive - October 2009
Issue 140: Unsettled OTC Trades - Response from the Financial Services Authority to September 2009 paper
Issue 116: Emission Allowances - Creating Legal Certainty - Report October 2009
Issue 146: Proposed Inland Revenue Code - Report October 2009
Issue 104: Pensions Act: Associated and connected persons
Letter from Ian Garland, Department for Work & Pensions - October 2009
Issue 140: Unsettled OTC Trades
Legal Proposal for normative changes to address the risk of market instability in the event of the insolvency of an investment firm, with particular reference to the problem of unsettled OTC cash equity trades - September 2009
Issue 148: Morrison v National Australia Bank
Letter from Lord Hoffmann to Gary Roberts, HM Treasury - September 2009
Issue 135: EHYA Submissions on Insolvency Law Reform
Letter to Mr Stephen Leinster, Insolvency Service (Sept 09) re Consultation on Encouraging Company Rescue - June 2009
Issue 108: Administration - Set-Off and Expenses
Letter to Mr Stephen Leinster, Insolvency Service (Aug 09) re review of proposals made in FMLC paper of 2007 in the light of LBIE proceedings
Issue 144: Investment Banking Insolvency Panel Proposals
Response to the May 2009 HM Treasury Consultation Document on developing effective resolution arrangements for investment banks - Report July 2009
Issue 107: Brussels 1 Regulation
Response from European Commission to Lord Hoffmann's letter re Green Paper - August 2009
Issue 107: Brussels I Regulation
Letter from Lord Hoffmann to Jonathan Faull, DG, European Commission -
July 2009
Issue 97: European Contract Law
Response from Lord Bach, Ministry of Justice re Common Frame of Reference - June 2009
Issue 97: European Contract Law
Letter from Lord Woolf to Ministry of Justice re Common Frame of Reference - June 2009
Issue 136: Intermediated Securities
Letter from Lord Woolf to Mr Holmquist, European Commission re Consultation Paper: Legislation on Legal Certainty of Securities Holding & Dispositions - June 2009
Issue 141: Landsbanki Freezing Order 2008
Legal Assessment of the impact on the financial markets - Report May 2009
Issue 143: OCR: Location of Intangible Assets
Letter from BERR re Consultation on OCR 2009 & the Government response - May 2009
Issue 143: OCR - Location of Intangible Assets
Letter from Lord Woolf to Ms Scrope, BERR - May 2009
Consultation on the draft Overseas Companies (Registration of Charges) Regulations 2009
Issue 133: Banking Reform Depositor Protection
Letter from Lord Woolf to Banking Reform Team, HM Treasury - April 2009
Issue 103: Prospectus Directive - Public Offer
Letter from Lord Woolf to Mr Holmquist: in Response to EC consultation - March 2009
Issue 133: Banking Reform, Depositor Protection - The Special Resolution Regime: Safeguards for Partial Property Transfers - Report January 2009
Issue 76: Transparency Obligations Directive Liability
Letter to HMT in response to their July 2008 consultation paper 'Extension of the Statutory regime for issuer liability'
Issue 138 - The Gambling Act 2005
Legal assessment of the potential problems for financial markets arising from the Gambling Act
- Report - October 2008
Issue 107: Brussels 1 Regulation Article 23 cases
Letter from Lord Bach, Ministry of Justice dated 16 October 2008
Issue 139 - EU CRA Proposals
Letter from Commissioner McCreevy dated 16 September 2008
Issue 133 - Banking Reform, Depositor Protection
Link to the FMLC submission to the Banking Bill -
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmpublic/banking/memos/ucm402.htm
Issue 133 - Banking Reform, Depositor Protection - The Special Resolution Regime - Report - September 2008
Issue 133: Banking Reform, Depositor Protection - the Special Resolutions Regime
Legal assessment of the safeguards that are necessary for a SRR - Report - July 2008
Issue 133 - Banking Reform - Depositor Protection
Response to the Tripartite Consultation Paper (April 2008)
Issue 130 - Implementation of the Vienna Sales Convention
Legal assessment of various financial markets aspects of the question whether the UK should implement the Vienna Sales Convention
Rome 1 - Consultation Paper
Letter from Lord Woolf to Bridget Prentice MP dated 25 June 2008
Rome 1 - Thank you letter from Bridget Prentice MP to Lord Woolf -
dated 15 December 2007
Issue 86: "Operating" a Collective Investment Scheme
Legal assessment of problems associated with the definition of CIS and related terms - Report - July 2008
Issue 107: Brussels 1 Regulation Article 23 cases
Letter from Lord Bach (Oct 2008)
Issue 107: Brussels 1 Regulation Article 23 cases
Legal assessment of problems associated with the Brussels 1 Reg and suggested solutions - Report - July 2008
Issue 135: EHYA submissions on Insolvency Law Reform
Letter from Lord Woolf to Nick Howard, The Insolvency Service dated 25 July 2008
Issue 132 - Alfa Telecom Turkey Ltd v Cukurova Finance International Ltd and Cukurova Holdings AS
Legal assessment of an issue raised in the above case, namely the extent to which the FCA (No 2) Regs 2003 are ultra vires in the European Communities Act 1972
Issue 103: Prospectus Directive "Offer to the Public"
Letter from European Commission dated November 2007
Issue 118: Building Society and Incorporated Friendly Society Set-Off - December 2007 Report
"Proposal for a Mandatory Insolvency Set-Off Rule applicable to Building Societies and Incorporated Friendly Societies"
Issue 108 - Administration - Set-off and Expenses - November 2007 Report
"Legal assessment of rule 2.85 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 and its interplay with other insolvency provisions in respect of post-administration liabilities owed to counterparties"
Issue 103 - Prospectus Directive - Public Offer
Letter to CESR
Issue 103 - Prospectus Directive - Public Offer
Letter to European Commission
Issue 131 - State Guarantees
Letter to European Commission
Issue 121 - Rome 1 Regulation Proposal
European Commission Final Proposal for a Regulation on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations
Suggestions for amendments to Articles 7 and 13
Issue 76 - Transparency Obligations Directive Liability - Report
Legal assessment of the proposed statutory liability regime in the Companies Bill in relation to Transparency Obligations Directive disclosure
Issue 76 - Transparency Obligations Directive Liability
Letter from Alexander Schaub, European Commission to Lord Woolf
Issue 76 - Transparency Obligations Directive Liability
Letter from Lord Woolf to Alexander Schaub, European Commission
Issue 125 - DG Markt Consultation
Letter from Lord Woolf to the European Commission
Issue 122 - Davidson Review
Letter from Lord Woolf to the Davidson Review
Issue 121 - Rome I Regulation Proposal
European Commission Final Proposal for a Regulation on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations - Legal Assessment of the Conversion of the Rome Convention to a Community Instrument and the Provisions of the Proposed Rome I Regulations
Issue 118 - Insolvency Set-Off and Building Societies
Lettter from Lord Woolf to Desmond Flynn, The Insolvency Service
Issues 120 - Section 868 of the Company Law Reform Bill
Statutory Reversal of Leyland DAF
Issue 113 - Insurance Contracts, Rome I - Paper 2
Response of the FMLC to a Final Proposal by the European Commission on a Rome I Regulation, as it relates to the Applicable Law of Insurance Contracts
Issue 42 - Unfair Terms in Contracts
Letter from Lord Browne-Wilkinson to Professor Hugh Beale, Law Commission, dated 31 January 2006
Issue 104 - Pensions Act: Associated and Connected Persons
Insolvency Practitioners - Receivers and the Pensions Act 2004
Issue 55 - Asset-Backed Bonds
Asset-backed bonds and the Implementation of Article 22(4) of the First Directive Regarding Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities
Issue 55 - Asset Backed Bonds
Report on Conflict of Laws and Mortgage Funding - The Rome I Instrument
Issue
119 - Conflicts between FSAP Directives
Legal assessment of various Directives arising from the European Commission's Financial Services Action Plan - inconsistences, conflicts and lacunae between Directives
Issue 113 - Insurance Contracts, Rome I - Paper 1
Response of the FMLC to a Consultation by the European Commission on the Insurance Provisions of a Proposed Rome "I" Instrument
Issue 58 - Hague Convention - Ratification and Implementation
Legal assessment of the arguments relating to the signing of the Hague Securities Convention - the need for, and benefits of, the Hague Securities Convention
Issue
109 - The Consumer Credit Bill
Provisions relating to 'Unfair Relationships':
impact on the financial markets and the consumer finance
industry
Issue
104 - Working Group on the Pensions Act 2004
Letter from the Pensions Regulator to
Lord Browne-Wilkinson dated 20 July 2005
Issue
104 - Working Group on the Pensions Act 2004
Letter from Lord Browne-Wilkinson to David Norgrove at
the Pensions Regulator dated 5 July 2005
Issue
104 - Working Group on the Pensions Act 2004
Letter from the Pensions Regulator to
Lord Browne-Wilkinson dated 19 May 2005
Issue
104 - Working Group on the Pensions Act 2004
Letter from Lord Browne-Wilkinson to David Norgrove at
the Pensions Regulator dated 20 April 2005
Issue
69 - Proceeds of Crime Act -
Proposed Amendments to Part 7 of Proceeds
of Crime Act 2002
Letter from Caroline Flint, MP to
Lord Browne-Wilkinson dated 4 March 2005
Issue 90 - Drafting Contracts
to Cater for Major Operational Disruption
Letter from Lord Browne-Wilkinson
11 April 2005
Issue
79 - Pari Passu Clauses
Analysis of the role, use and meaning of pari passu clauses
in sovereign debt obligations as a matter of English law.
Issue
69 - Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Analysis Of Whether The Proposed Changes To Part 7 Of
The Proceeds Of Crime Act 2002 In The Serious Organised
Crime And Police Bill Affect The Legal Uncertainties Identified
In The Financial Markets Law Committee Issue 69
Issue 80 - Reform of Law on Company
Security Interests - Uncertainty Issues Raised by Law
Commission Consultation Paper 176
Letter from Lord Browne-Wilkinson to
Sir Roger Toulson on 1 December 2004
Issue 76 - Transparency Obligations Directive - Report - October 2004
Issue 69 - Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Issue 89 - Prospectus
Directive
- Choice of Home Member State
Note
to interested parties
from Lord Browne-Wilkinson
27 September 2004
Issue 89 - Prospectus Directive - Choice of Home Member State
Issue 3 - Property Interests in Investment Securities
Issue 3 - Property Interests in Investment Securities
Report on Research into the 1994 Revisions to Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code
Issue 3 - Property
Interests in Investment Securities
International Overview
Issue 3 - Property
Interests in Investment Securities
Resources
and Materials
Issue 3 - Property
Interests in Investment Securities
The
Six Classic Priority Scenarios
Issue 3 - Property
Interests in Investment Securities
The
Regulation of Securities Intermediaries by the FSA
Issue 62 - Trustee Exemption Clauses - Report
Issue 76 - Transparency Obligations Directive - Report
Issue 56 - Emergency Powers Legislation - Report
Issue 56 - Emergency
Powers Legislation
Checklist
for Contracts
Issue 56 - Emergency
Powers Legislation - Appendix 1
Working
Group and Terms of Reference
Issue 56 - Emergency
Powers Legislation - Appendix 2
Letters
to Foreign Bodies
Issue 56 - Emergency
Powers Legislation - Appendix 3
References
and Weblinks
Issue 56 - Emergency
Powers Legislation - Appendix 4A
Materials
Relating to Contracts
Issue 56 - Emergency
Powers Legislation - Appendix 4B
Materials
Relating to Contracts - ISDA
Issue 56 - Emergency
Powers Legislation - Appendix 5
Materials
Relating to Infrastructure Bodies
Issue 56 - Emergency
Powers Legislation - Appendix 6
Materials
from other International Wholesale Financial Marketplaces
Issue 1 - Implementation
of Financial Collateral Directive 2002/47/EC
Letter
to HM Treasury
from Lord Browne-Wilkinson
25 July 2003
Issue 1 - Implementation
of Financial Collateral Directive 2002/47/EC
Letter
to CLLS Financial Law Sub-Committee
from Lord Browne-Wilkinson
25 July 2003
Issue 1 - Implementation
of Financial Collateral Directive 2002/47/EC
CLLS Financial
Law Sub-Committee working paper, 2 May 2003
Issue 74 - Set-off
in administration.
Note
to interested parties
from Lord Browne-Wilkinson
21 July 2003
Fund
Management and Market Transactions
Note to
interested parties
from Lord Browne-Wilkinson
Fund
Management and Market Transactions
- A Practice Recommendation.
Financial Law Panel paper first published
September 1995
Issue 56 - Emergency
Powers Legislation Working Group
Note of
meeting 13 March 2003
Issue 56 - Emergency
Powers Legislation Working Group
Note of
meeting 31 March 2003
Issue 56 - Emergency
Powers Legislation Working Group
Note of
meeting 27 June 2003
Issue 74 - Set-off
in administration.
Note
of meeting with Insolvency Service
26 June 2003
Issue 42 - Unfair
terms in contracts.
Letter to Chairman of the
Law Commission
20 June 2003
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