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14 Apr 2011, 1:45 pm
Business Secretary Vince Cable said that a block on exports of pentobarbital, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride would be formalized in a few days. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 6:47 am
David Frost CBE Director General of the BCC mentioned the difficulties facing businesses, especially smaller firms, as a result of onerous regulation, cue Vince Cable who dedicated his thirty minute speech to the need to ‘attack massive regulation’. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 10:01 am
As part of an overall drive to reduce regulatory burdens for small companies, the UK Secretary of State for Business, Vince Cable, said that the government intends to change the law to simplify the audit rules for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) and the subsidiaries of larger companies, thereby saving UK companies up to tens of millions in unnecessary audit fees. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 8:13 am
Dream Pharma had been supplying the US with the anaesthetic, which is designed to render patients – or, in this case, prisoners – fully unconscious, until Business Secretary Vince Cable imposed a ban on the export of drugs used for executions in December last year. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 1:30 am
Vince Cable has made it clear he wishes to increase the supply, and is encouraging more firms to create apprenticeship schemes, this is important in the short-term. [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 12:55 pm
He has appeared on twitter and has a new blog…and he has rather an interesting blog post: If your GC reports to the CFO, your company doesn’t understand what Legal does Listen to the podcast Life as an in-house lawyer and how to get ahead with Tom Kilroy - one I particularly enjoyed doing And… while I am on the topic of General Counsel or in-house lawyers The Bizzle has this most enjoyable post: What lawyers can learn from call centres What today’s… [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 8:58 am
Details… Vince Cable, after a tour de farce on Strictly Come Dancing has taken up stand up comedy. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 9:27 am
Business Secretary Vince Cable introduced a ban on the export of sodium thiopental in December. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 3:58 am
The PCC Watch blog discusses the complaint by the Lib Dems over the “Daily Telegraph” sting operation against Vince Cable (see our post here) under the headline “Will the PCC censure the Telegraph’s Lib Dem sting? [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 4:50 pm
The Press Complaints Commission has opened an investigation into The Daily Telegraph’s use of “subterfuge” in a series of undercover stings – one of which led to Business Secretary Vince Cable telling reporters he had “declared war on Rupert Murdoch”. [read post]
16 Jan 2011, 4:15 pm
We had a post a few weeks ago on “Vince Cable, Subterfuge and the Public Interest” – dealing with the lack of a public interest justification for the “Daily Telegraph” entrapment of the Business Secretary. [read post]
29 Dec 2010, 1:01 am
The media release continues thus: "Chancellor George Osborne, Justice Secretary Ken Clarke and Business Secretary Vince Cable have each notched up a pro-business innovation initiative: 1 New incentives in the tax system for businesses to innovate and patent their inventions [on which see Anne Fairpo's IP Finance posts here and here]; 2 Reformed IP enforcement – dramatic changes to make it much easier and cheaper for innovative businesses to enforce their… [read post]
27 Dec 2010, 8:41 pm
Former Guardian editor Peter Preston argued that the “Telegraph’s tactics with Vince Cable stretched the public interest defence too far”. [read post]
26 Dec 2010, 12:50 pm
I am looking forward to seeing Vince Cable’s *Command* performance on Strictly Come Dancing on iPlayer. [read post]
25 Dec 2010, 12:15 pm
For a picture of Vince Cable, Business Secretary, dressed up as Santa – please click here. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 9:47 am
Bite-size human rights case law And, as I am on a roll with misreporting, this analysis of the Cable / BSB Sky issue by Carl Gardner is worth a read to get it right: Taking Vince Cable off the BSkyB case Bye… until tomorrow…. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 6:51 am
With the British business minister, Vince Cable, out and the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, in, News Corporation's bid for BSkyB is more likely to clear the final regulatory hurdle. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 1:33 pm
A massive batch of Sodium Thiopenthal, one of a cocktail of drugs used in executions, was exported to California before Business Secretary Vince Cable imposed a ban on the lethal substances. [read post]
19 Dec 2010, 11:15 am
Dear Reader, This will be my last Postcard From the Staterooms before Christmas, so I thought I would start with a picture of me and Vince Cable. [read post]
18 Dec 2010, 12:06 am
EU Directives to be copied into UK legislation Secretary of State for Business, Vince Cable this week set out a series of new principles that the Government will use when introducing European measures into UK law. [read post]
