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By: Nick Hurley

Nick Hurley is Partner and Head of Employment at Charles Russell Speechlys

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  • Ministers don’t seem to want a competitive tech sector, just a feel-good hill to die on

    Nick Hurley

    If you were hoping for legislative proposals, which, at the very least, are honest in what they think of themselves, last week’s paper released by the government entitled “smarter regulation”, was as lacking in humility as it was in political nous. If you think about smart motorways and smart meters and all the other things [...]

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