In a landmark ruling last month, the House of Lords has, after almost 15 years of uncertainty, clarified the appropriate method for calculating the amount of compensation to which commercial agents in the UK are entitled on termination of their agency agreements.

As it’s the holiday season, we’re combining our July and August editions this month and will return to our regular monthly service in September.

On 16 May 2011, the European Commission confirmed that Standard & Poor’s ("S&P") has offered concessions in order to settle its 2-year long investigation into the licensing of US ISINs.

Today’s technology means that employers can very easily monitor the activities of their employees, and consequently the workplace is increasingly becoming a source of conflict between an employee’s right to privacy and the employer’s need to protect their business.

What with phone-hacking scandals, allegations of police bribery, the Prime Minister’s apparent failure to conduct appropriate background checks on Andy Coulson and the finals of The Apprentice, it has been a slightly uncomfortable month for certain HR professionals out there!

A discussion on the predictions for the IT law developments in 2013.

Employment law has gone political this month (you may say when was it ever not?).

As the March 2017 deadline approaches for the implementation of a Pensions Dashboard prototype, we consider the purpose of the Dashboard and its features...

The 2006 revision of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations ("TUPE") was intended to clarify the law regarding the transfer of employees in an outsourcing context, by clarifying that TUPE would usually apply to an outsourcing, because of the introduction of a new concept of a "service provision change".

The European Commission is engaged in a major new initiative which will fundamentally overhaul core EU consumer protection law and is now inviting comments on various proposals set out in a Green Paper which seek to create a borderless on-line retail market within Europe.

All businesses, including small and medium sized enterprises, have intangible intellectual property rights which are highly valuable and in certain instances it may prove necessary to pursue litigation in order to protect them.

Open standards and the role and value of intellectual property in ICT products and services continues to be a point of contention, in spite of the acknowledgement in the main EU and international standards bodies that there is a need to value IP and recognise its place in open standards on FRAND terms.

On 30 January the European Commission ("Commission") initiated formal antitrust proceedings against Samsung for abuse of dominance in relation to certain of its standard essential patents in the European mobile device market contrary to Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ("TFEU").

IP owners have sometimes found efforts to prevent online infringement of their rights expensive, time consuming and of limited effectiveness. Online infringers may enjoy a high degree of anonymity, can base themselves in hard to reach jurisdictions, and can disappear easily, making enforcement difficult.

On 16 May 2011, the European Commission confirmed that Standard & Poor's ("S&P") has offered concessions in order to settle its 2-year long investigation into the licensing of US ISINs.

The General Court of the European Union handed down judgment upholding the decision by the European Commission in 2007 that the member bank delegates of MasterCard had collectively set cross border fall back multilateral interchange fees.

The Article 29 Working Party issued on 3 October 2017 its draft "Guidelines on Automated individual decision-making and Profiling"1 under the GDPR.

In March this year, the High Court (Eady J) gave judgment in the case of "Tamiz v Google".

The concept of "online privacy" has become something of a watchword in the technology industry, yet there is no clear answer as to what it is or how it can be effectively protected.