Suzie Savage and Patrick Beale share their views on this year's key investment treaty developments, building on a December 2021 episode in which they anticipated what to expect...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) held its 49th semi-annual meeting in Singapore in March

The involvement of the ASA occurred after Crunch Accounting Ltd ("Crunch") complained to them on purported misleading advertising and unfair comparisons with identifiable competitors.

Recent cybersecurity trends have shown that no company is safe from the threat of a data breach. It is now a matter of "when", not "if", a breach will occur.

If a tenant company fails to pay its rent when due (subject to any grace periods in the lease) the landlord ordinarily has the right to forfeit the lease either by peaceable re-entry of the property or by legal proceedings.

In our post on 20 March we explained the implications of the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 and in particular the need for heat suppliers to register before 30 April 2015.

We will pass on information about the details when we see it.

Following on from our posting about the removal of the exemption of small scale developments from affordable housing contributions, please note that the Court of Appeal reversed the High Court's decision.

Last month, the House of Commons Treasury Committee issued a report on its inquiry into the regulation of crypto-assets

In Dry Bulk Handy Holding Inc v Fayette International Holdings Ltd, the court considered whether a shipowner is entitled to demand payment to himself of freight under his bill of lading when that contract stipulates for payment to another party, provided the shipowner makes his demand before the freight has been paid to that other party.

Join partners Philip Rymer and Susan Riitala as they discuss the new BIMCO ship sale and purchase agreement, SHIPSALE22 and how it compares to the Norwegian Shipbrokers' Association's standard form...

The Privy Council has confirmed that it is possible to contract out the right to limit liability, and so operators must be vigilant in ensuring this does not inadvertently happen ...

In January of 2017 a private equity firm, Bencis, was found liable for a portfolio company's involvement as one of 14 cartelists producing flour in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.

When COVID-19 swept the globe and disrupted the production and distribution of goods, it gave way to some companies taking advantage of consumers by significantly increasing prices.

In our increasingly global world, cross-border insolvencies have become relatively commonplace.

18 October 2015, marked ‘Adoption Day' for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The JCPOA was agreed upon 90 days earlier, between the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, together with Iran.

The initial coin offerings regulatory map has begun to take shape with the SEC, the CSA, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Australia offering their opinions on ICOs.

Data privacy issues in the European Union seem to be a reoccurring theme here on the blog, following Court of Justice of the European Union's judgment in Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner (C-362-14) on October 6.

On 12 January 2014, the Indonesian Government imposed an effective ban on the export of some unprocessed mineral ores.

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