Posted on: April 2, 2015 by Alexander Herman
Last month, the UK government finally responded to the Department for Culture Media & Sport’s consultation regarding changes to the cultural object export licensing system which took place between May and August 2012. The response indicated the changes that will be brought about to the export system and which have already been incorporated by the Arts Council in […]
Posted on: October 3, 2014 by Alexander Herman
The Wedgwood collection of porcelain, photographs and paintings has been saved. As reported in September, a deadline had been given of 30 November 2014 to raise the remaining £2.7 million of the nearly £16 million needed for the Art Fund to buy the collection and keep it in one piece. The remaining amount has since […]
Posted on: July 17, 2014 by Nina M. Neuhaus
The Federal Act on the International Transfer of Cultural Property (Cultural Property Transfer Act, ‘CPTA’), which came into force on June 1st, 2005 and implemented the 1970 UNESCO Convention into Swiss law, aims at enhancing the protection of Swiss cultural heritage. Art. 3(1) CPTA calls for the establishment of a Federal Registry listing “cultural property […]
Posted on: July 7, 2014 by Richard Harwood QC
The Church of England’s faculty jurisdiction extends to objects within a church even if they are not attached to the building or are owned by another person. To that degree it goes beyond listed building control. In Re St Lawrence, Oakley with Wootton St Lawrence, the Arches Court of Canterbury considered the attempted sale of an […]
Posted on: June 20, 2014 by Ruth Redmond-Cooper
We have just released the full speaker list and times for the Art & Antiquities Law study forum on 28th June 2014 in London. For more, click here. 11.00 Trudy Prescott (Metropolitan Police) ‘Due Diligence and Databases’ 11.30 Dick Ellis (Ellis Art Risk) ‘Art Theft and the Handling of Stolen Goods’ 12.00 Alexander Herman (Institute […]