The Supreme Court has now ruled on the landmark age discrimination case, Seldon v Clarkson Wright and Jakes UKSC 16.

Advertising used to be about informing consumers where the products they purchased came from and which person or corporation was responsible for their manufacture. However, over the past 50-60 years, advertisers have been striving to give brands an image or identity, which induces consumers to buy the brand as much as the underlying product to which it is affixed.

Any lawyer in the technology sector is likely to have scratched their head at some point on whether or not "special damages" are something they should be worried about.

In the recent case of SAP UK Ltd v Diageo Great Britain Ltd [2017] EWHC 189 (TCC), SAP succeeded in its claim against Diageo for over £54.5 million of additional licence and maintenance fees...

Two years ago, thousands of organisations had to step on the gas pedal to adapt to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation, which sometimes led them to accept risks...

The Government is cracking down on theft of personal information. For the first time, people who sell or deliberately misuse others’ personal data could face a prison sentence of up to two years.

On 4 October, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "European Court") ruled that national legislation which prohibits the import, sale or use of foreign decoder cards is contrary to the freedom to provide services and cannot be justified.

While the Olympics is being welcomed by many employers and employees alike, there are genuine concerns among employers as to the level of disruption the Olympics is going to cause to their business, through transport disruption, increased absence from work and the knock-on impact this will have on productivity.

A discussion on the laws covering the use of cookies and similar technology used to store information on a user’s equipment following the recent change in laws.

One of the key features of the Prospectus Rules is the requirement on companies to publish a prospectus if offering transferrable securities (usually shares or debentures) to the public.

Consider the following scenario: your company has just launched its next big product; you worked with an outside marketing company and chose the perfect name for the product; a domain name was registered, substantial funds were devoted to developing the look and feel of the product and thousands of pounds were spent on advertising featuring the new name.

At the Conservative Party Conference yesterday, the Chancellor George Osborne announced plans for a new employment status: "owner-employee".

In February 2010 we reported on the new powers of the Information Commissioner’s Office ("ICO") to impose penalties on data controllers who commit serious contraventions of the data protection principles.

Whether buying or selling a technology company there are a number of tax traps that may arise. We discuss some of the tax traps that we have recently come across in transactions below.

Although the impact was not quite as big as some headlines had suggested, the outage of Amazon's S3 in the US-East-1 region on Tuesday 28 February caused significant disruption.

1. Does an agency worker need to point to an actual comparator to enforce their rights under the Regulations?

In a recent case, the English Patents Court gave judgment on the first appeal against an opinion of the Comptroller of Patents under the scheme for the provision of UK Patent Office opinions (the "Scheme").

Social media has revolutionised the way many businesses work, including the organisation of client contacts and other communications.

Cybersquatting – the practice of registering internet domain names that are based on another entity’s brands or company name - is as prevalent as ever.

Of the nineteen draft bills in the Queen’s Speech of 9th May, of most interest to the IT and digital media world will be the draft Communications Data Bill.