Although Brexit means that the UK can no longer be part of the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Brexit may increase the attractiveness of the current national litigation route as an alternative to the UPC.

This week the Commercial Court handed down judgment in Tonicstar Limited v (1) Allianz Insurance PLC; (2) Sirius International Insurance Corporation ( PUBL) (London Branch) [2017]...

UK-based media agency, the7stars, recently announced it would adopt the ISBA's template agency agreement—an arrangement designed to foster a transparent relationship between advertisers...

As part of its GDPR Implementation Project, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership ('CIPL') has released a discussion paper on certifications, seals and marks.

On 23 May 2017, our European IT, Privacy and Data Security team hosted a breakfast roundtable to discuss the most pertinent GDPR questions that our clients are facing...

The UK's new prime minister, Boris Johnson, has vowed that the UK will leave the EU on October 31, 2019.

The GDPR is just around the corner and will be effective in less than three months – on 25 May 2018.

In August, the UK's data protection regulator, the ICO, fined a Hertfordshire GP practice £40,000 under the Data Protection Act 1998 ("DPA") after a subject access request ("SAR") went badly wrong.

Following the UK Conservatives Party's landslide victory in December 2019, there were immediate implications for the UK's Withdrawal from the European Union

Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has recently given some valuable insights into the Information Commissioner's Office's (ICO) General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") strategy

Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has recently given some valuable insights into the Information Commissioner's Office's (ICO) General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") strategy.

A landlord can be deemed to be a contractor when they spend over an average of £1,000,000 a year for three consecutive years on construction operations.

We have posted previously about the case of EMI Group Ltd v O&H Q1 Ltd, in which the court was asked to decide whether a tenant can assign its tenancy to its guarantor.

Wandsworth Council has just taken the unprecedented step of issuing a non-immediate Article 4 Direction to withdraw permitted development rights from 120 pub and bar sites in Wandsworth.

Continuing on from our previous commentary on the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act (the ‘Act'), the new Register of Overseas Entities introduced by the Act...

On 28 July 2022 the Law Commission of England and Wales published new proposals to reform the law relating to digital assets.

Earlier this month the Commercial Court handed down an interesting judgment which considered the question of when a cargo is the "subject of the [arbitral] proceedings", so as to give rise to a power to order the sale of the cargo under Section 44(2)(d) Arbitration Act 1996 – Dainford Navigation Inc v PDVSA Petroleo SA (The "Moscow Stars") [2017] EWHC 2150.

The Longchamp was commandeered by pirates off Somalia in 2009, who demanded a US$6 million ransom.

The UK Government recently responded to The House of Commons Transport Committee's Report, titled "UK aviation: reform for take-off". The Report makes a number of recommendations...

This was a further appeal, to the Court of Appeal, from an LMAA arbitration award, considering the true construction of the sweep-up provision at sub-clause 8(d) ...