The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has released updated guidance on the use of encryption.

In a decision of 31 August 2015, the First-Tier Tribunal provided important clarification on the use of third-party mailing lists.

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.

Properly employed, sweeper clauses are designed to catch service charge costs that may be unforeseeable at the time of drafting.

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.

The snappily titled Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notice and Prescribed Requirements (England) Regulations 2015 come into force 1st October 2015.

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.

Following the government's successful appeal last week against the decision in the West Berkshire Council and Reading Borough Council case nearly a year ago, the National Planning Practice Guidance will be amended again.

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) ...