Andrew Ryan

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Ryan

Less than three months after he became chief of the New Bedford Police Department, Paul Oliveira destroyed 25 years of internal affairs files, disposing of the official record of some potentially embarrassing investigations into the department’s officers, including at least eight into Oliveira himself. State law allows government officials to cull old records — and Oliveira sought and received permission to do so.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Ryan |Dugan Arnett

Dozens of Massachusetts agencies — including two of the state’s 10 largest police departments, Brockton and Quincy — have no policy governing the use of informants, a fact that one criminal justice expert calls “insane.” More than three dozen departments in the state allow the use of unregistered informants, who are unvetted and go untracked.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Dugan Arnett |Andrew Ryan

Below deck, a handful of fishermen prepared for their journey. Some lay down to sleep. Shortly before 9:30, they heard pounding on the wheelhouse door. The stranger was dressed in black. His eyes were bloodshot. He had a pistol on his hip. He pushed his way into the cabin, barged into the bunk of a sleeping fisherman, and dug furiously through the man’s pockets. Jolted from sleep, the fisherman pushed and struggled to fight the intruder off.

2 months ago | lexology.com | Andrew Ryan

BackgroundIn June 2024, the UK Supreme Court issued its seminal decision in Finch on how emissions from carbon-emitting projects should be assessed within Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA). Finch concerned expansion of an oil extraction facility in Surrey. The UKSC held that the ‘downstream’ emissions from the ultimate combustion of extracted oil had to be assessed as part of the EIA accompanying the planning application.

Sep 1, 2024 | lexology.com | Andrew Ryan |Simon Akozu |Lloyd Kavanagh |Jeremy Muir |Claire Brabant |Sue Wong

On 30 August 2024 Inland Revenue released a draft interpretation statement entitled “GST treatment of fees paid in relation to managed funds”. A key conclusion in that guidance is that fees payable to the manager of a managed fund for services supplied to investors are not subject to GST as they are consideration for exempt supplies of financial services. This is the opposite position to a legislative proposal in 2022 that would have made all fund manager services subject to GST at 15%.