CHANNEL ISLANDS AND ISLE OF MAN DITCH PUBLIC UBO REGISTER COMMITMENTS
January 5th, 2023
The three British crown dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man have ditched commitments made in 2019 to allow public access to their beneficial ownership registers, citing a 2022 European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling (1). This concluded that public registers breached European Union (EU) privacy rights – although these have never applied to the crown dependencies, which were not within the EU, even before Brexit. A joint statement from the jurisdictions argued that their decision was also based on case law at the European Court of Human Rights ...
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