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Legal Update for Energy Lawyers – January 2023

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This newsletter provides general information and is not intended to be comprehensive or to provide specific legal advice. Professional advice appropriate to a specific situation should always be sought.

Contents:

  1. Court of Appeal decision on limitation periods relating to service contracts
  2. Nigeria renews its bid to overturn an $11bn arbitration award at London’s High Court
  3. UK government and the NSEC signed a memorandum of understanding on offshore renewable energy
  4. Courts clarify the extent of powers in respect of documents on personal devices
  5. High Court ruling on unintentional waiver of privilege
  6. ECJ affirms the right of every person to know to
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Thinking of hiding assets during a divorce or separation?

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Dividing assets after a divorce or separation is a difficult process. But a recent case highlighted the courts power to undo transactions where the assets were disposed of when a divorce or separation was only being “anticipated”.

A common misconception is that if assets are transferred prior to separation occurring (or even post separation), then assets are gone forever. This is usually done by the asset holder in an attempt to hide assets or try to defeat the claim of the other spouse or partner.

The Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia have powers that can overturn or

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The NLRB Finds Unlawful Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Provisions in Severance Agreements: Non-Disparagement, Non-Disclosure, Non-Allowed

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On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) continued its aggressive application of the National Labor Relations Act (“Act” or “NLRA”) to workplaces without union representation and lessened the value of severance agreements for all employers by finding it unlawful for an employer to merely proffer a severance agreement that includes broad non-disparagement and confidentiality provisions to an employee. in Mclaren Macomb, the Board held that a severance agreement that contained a confidentiality clause and a non-disparagement clause was unlawful because, in the Board’s view, these provisions impermissibly infringe on employees’ rights under the Act. …

Man shot by Indianapolis police in grandmother’s driveway files legal demand

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The city of Indianapolis and its police department have been sent a legal demand for financial compensation by a man who says officers shot him multiple times at the same time they were asking him to put his hands up.

Anthony Maclin was hit three times by gunfire from Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers while he was in a rental car outside his grandmother’s house early in the morning of Dec. 31. He had a gun on his lap, but his attorneys say body camera footage from the shooting never shows Maclin with the gun in his hand.

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Kanye West’s ex-lawyers finally found him after months of trying to tell him they quit

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Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is seen on November 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.MEGA/GC Images/Getty Images

  • Lawyers who represented Ye — aka Kanye West — finally found him after months of trying.

  • They handed him a judge’s order explaining they quit and he had to find new attorneys.

  • Ye has several pending lawsuits against him, alleging millions of dollars in damages.

Kanye West’s former lawyers have finally found him.

After months of searching, attorneys at Greenberg Traurig LLP, the firm that represented West for everything from contract disputes to employment lawsuits, tracked Ye down and told him

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Kanye West’s former lawyers finally track him down

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Kanye West’s former attorneys have finally tracked down the elusive artist and cut ties with him, even as he faces a slew of lawsuits, according to reports.

Many companies and business partners severed ties with the West amid his racist and antisemitic behavior last fall, but his lawyers had to serve him with legally required notice before dropping him as a client. The rapper, who legally changed his name to Ye in 2021, led the attorneys of Greenberg Traurig LLP on a wild goose chase for months, Billboard reported, evading their attempts to serve him.

After the “Runaway” performer had

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What three luxury homes reveal about who owns UK property

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Stylised graphic showing Beechwood House, Lubov Chernukhin and Alisher Usmanov

Stylised graphic showing Beechwood House, Lubov Chernukhin and Alisher Usmanov

Owners of around 50,000 UK properties held by foreign companies remain hidden from public view, despite new transparency laws.

The Register of Overseas Entities, launched in August 2022, was meant to reveal who ultimately owns UK property.

But analysis by BBC News and Transparency International found that almost half of the firms required to declare who was behind them failed to do so.

Labor MP Margaret Hodge said the legislation was not “fit for purpose”.

A UK government spokesperson said the register has been an “invaluable source of information for

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100 Industry Organizations Request Extension of Comment Period on FTC’s Proposed Noncompete Ban

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As we predicted, earlier today, 100 industry organizations submitted a request to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to extend the comment period for its proposed rule banning non-competes nationwide by an additional 60 days. According to the letter, “[t]he regulated community should be given sufficient time to assess the potential consequences of the rulemaking and develop insightful comments for the Commission to consider.” The letter further states:

This rulemaking, as the FTC itself acknowledges, will impact a significant portion of the economy. Given the breadth of the rules, a sufficient comment period is needed to ensure the regulated community can …