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An appraisal of the MFSA’s proposed ‘Financial Instrument Test’

Author: Alain Muscat Date: 08 Jun 2018

Pursuant to the ‘Discussion Paper on Initial Coin Offerings, Virtual Currencies and Related Service Providers’, the MFSA has released a consultation document in respect of the ‘financial instrument test’ (the ...

Are employers restricted when applying penalties on employees for termination?

Author: Joseph Mizzi Date: 04 Jun 2018

When seeking employment, employees are normally presented with a contract that includes terms and conditions governing the termination of their employment relationship. In Malta, employment law is regulated by the Employment and ...

Everything you need to know about the GDPR

Author: Timothy Spiteri Date: 23 Apr 2018

The entry into force of the EU’s new legal framework is expected to transform the data protection landscape across the EU and beyond. This comes at a critical time for consumers, as recent revelations into the Cambridge Analytica ...

Extending Trademark Protection Overseas

Author: Timothy Spiteri Date: 16 Mar 2018

One of the by-products of an increasingly-globalised world is the rapid increase in cross-border trade. A phenomenon which was hitherto limited to a handful of multinationals, has become standard practice today for a multitude of ...

European Commission launches GDPR portal

Author: Timothy Spiteri Date: 29 Jan 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR") will enter into force on the 25th of May of this year, effectively replacing the Data Protection Directive (the "DPD"), which has been in force since 1995. In the past 23 years, the ...

Guidelines issued on procurement of consent under GDPR

Author: Alain Muscat Date: 19 Jan 2018

As businesses set out to implement operational changes to phase into the new regulatory environment brought about by the GDPR, many are those who are still struggling to understand the parameters in which data controllers are expected ...

Last 3 months to benefit from the reduced duty rate on intra-family donations

Author: Joseph Mizzi Date: 03 Jan 2018

Issued on 2nd May 2017, the Duty on Donations of Marketable Securities and Immovable Property Used for Business (Exemption) Order, 2017 (L.N. 131 OF 2017) had introduced a reduced rate of duty for intra-family donations of company ...

The Right to be Forgotten - Part Two

Author: Alain Muscat Date: 15 Nov 2017

In May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that search engines, such as Google, assumed the function of a controller and set out the right of data subjects to request the erasure of personal data that is ...

Muscat Mizzi Advocates to attend Web Summit 2017 in Lisbon

Author: Deborah Chappell Date: 01 Nov 2017

Muscat Mizzi Advocates will be attending the Web Summit 2017 between the 6th – 9th November 2017 at the Altice Arena, Lisbon. The summit is the world’s largest gathering for online businesses and aspiring startups. It ...

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