A new regime of plea bargain style cooperation agreements will come into force in Japan this June, in a further instalment to reforms of the Japanese Criminal Procedure Code.

Social media has so far proved hard to define, let alone regulate. At a recent seminar on 'Big Tech', social media and privacy ...

The UK Gambling Commission takes a risk-based approach to regulation, focusing its resources on the issues that potentially present the greatest risk to the Commission's licensing objectives.

There's also the international sale of these rights to be finalised over the next year or so, which will likely more than make up for any domestic shortfall.

One problem is that PECR are now 15 years old – and in the digital context this is almost prehistoric law.

Employers must of course be alive to potential liability for their own acts.

We are increasingly having conversations with clients who require ongoing support in relation to their GDPR compliance – ranging from those that must appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO) under GDPR ...

Most of us will have received emails over the recent weeks from businesses asking us to confirm that we want to continue to hear from them.

Back in 2010 and 2011, ‘localism' and ‘neighbourhood planning' were the new buzzwords in the planning world, full of promise and anticipation of sustainable development ...

The ‘Build to Rent' (BTR) sector is one of the fastest growing real estate asset classes in the UK. It has been quoted that a further 1.1 million households will be renting privately in the UK ...

Over the last few years we have witnessed the significant rise of institutional interest in the Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) sector.

After Grenfell: who should pay to remove unsafe, combustible cladding on apartment blocks?

In a novel move, MDR LAB, the legal tech incubator of UK law firm Mishcon de Reya has announced that two property sector companies, Derwent London and Coyote will sponsor the Real Estate category ...

In his October Pre-Budget Report, the Chancellor announced that taper relief, which can reduce the effective rate of capital gains tax (CGT) to 10%, and the indexation allowance, which gives relief for inflation, would both be withdrawn from 06 April 2008.

Probably the biggest change in employment law in 2005 will be the introduction of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations, which will come into force on 6 April. The Regulations will give employees the right to request that their employer enters into negotiations for an agreement, which will set out procedures for informing and consulting workforce representatives on a range of business issues.

The EU is quietly but surely progressing with its Brexit preparations. Whilst the Westminster bubble and UK media continues to theorise the relative advantages/disadvantages of variants around a customs union ...

The Court of Appeal will shortly hear argument in the dispute between Unwired Planet and Huawei, following Birss J's ground-breaking decision in April last year to determine the terms of a global licence in relation to ...

As Liberty Media Corporation prepares for its second year behind the wheel of the Formula One Group – with the new season commencing in Melbourne this week – our Automotive Group takes...

The High Court has in the case of Sabados v Facebook Ireland compelled Facebook to reveal who posed as a family member to secure the deletion of a deceased man's profile ...

Those who have been waiting, since 25 May this year, for the first formal enforcement action issued under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)