The UK Court of Appeal, R v Martin [2013] EWCA Crim 1420, dismissed an appeal against a two-year prison sentence for various cybercrimes by the appellant, Lewys Martin.

Privacy seals are already available at the European level, and in France, Germany and Japan.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit.

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.

The construction industry is preparing itself for new health and safety practices as a result of the CDM Regulations 2015 which will come into force on 1 April 2015.

We are finding that some of our clients are shocked by the recent radical changes to the system of court fees.

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) ...