This was a case giving rise to issues of both jurisdiction and governing law under a contract (or contracts) of excess of loss reinsurance issued by the Defendants, to the Claimant ("Gard"), a reinsured domiciled in Bermuda.

This case considered whether, where a liability policy contained an exclusion excluding liability arising under a contract, unless such liability would have attached in the absence of such a contract, and where there was a judgment finding the insured liable for breach of contract, that foreclosed the question as to whether there was also tortious liability that would fall within the terms of cover.

UK broadcasters have won an important stage in their attempt to stop an unauthorised service from providing online simultaneous streaming of their broadcasts.

A UK trade mark registration for the mark SWEET FEET (for "foot and shoe deodorant") has recently been revoked on the basis that the mark was not put to genuine use in the UK for a period of 5 years and there were no proper reasons for the non-use.

On 11 January 2024, the Data Act, new EU legislation to harmonise the regulation of the data economy, entered into force.

Bei dem EU-Listing Act handelt es sich um ein Gesetzespaket (bestehend aus einer Verordnung und zwei Richtlinien), mit dem der europäische Gesetzgeber das Ziel verfolgt, ...

This article explains the nature and the functions of the Convention and some concepts related to the Convention.

On 30 November 2022, the German Federal Government officially decided to withdraw the country from the Energy Charter Treaty.

EU competition law aspires to create a level playing field of undistorted competition within the European Single Market, seeking to promote economic efficiency...

The High Court considered questions of grounds for termination for repudiatory breach and held that: a clause which allows a party to terminate for repudiatory breach will not normally exclude...

MWB Business Exchange Limited v Rock Advertising Limited [2016] EWCA Civ 553

Het wetsvoorstel tot wijziging van de re-integratieverplichtingen in het tweede ziektejaar bij werknemers van kleine en middelgrote werkgevers is een onderdeel van het in april gepresenteerde arbeidsmarktpakket.

Since 2022, the Growth Quota and Target Figures Act has been in effect. Based on this Act, large companies are required to improve the gender balance in the top...

On 15 March 2018, the Act of 26 January 2018 amending the Act on the National Court Register and certain other acts (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 398) came into force.

Kachenka Pribanova, Maarten Rijks and Annemijn Schipper look at regulatory scrutiny of harmful online choice architecture in the UK and the EU.

This case was a dispute about forum. However, as with many such disputes it also involved determination of important threshold questions as to governing law.

This was a case giving rise to issues of both jurisdiction and governing law under a contract (or contracts) of excess of loss reinsurance issued by the Defendants, to the Claimant ("Gard"), a reinsured domiciled in Bermuda.

In August, the High Court, in Dawson-Damer & Ors v Taylor Wessing, refused an application to compel a UK law firm to comply with a data subject access request under the Data Protection Act 1998.

The Court of Appeal in England and Wales has recently given judgments in two cases relating to the rights and limitations attaching to data subject access rights ('DSARs').

The UAE federal government has recently published in the Gazette, Federal Law No 2 of 2010, which amends certain provisions of Federal Law No 18 of 1981 Regulating Commercial Agencies (Agencies Law).