The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May 2018 and will apply to anyone doing business with Europe.

Guidelines for Facebook's moderators on deciding what content to allow, or to remove, from the social media platform have been published by The Guardian and are likely to spark discussions...

The feature film I Am Not A Witch, produced by Emily Morgan of our client Soda Pictures, has been named in the line-up for the Directors' Fortnight at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Today the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the RT Hon Philip Hammond MP, announced the Spring Budget 2017.

The Supreme Court decided today in favour of HMRC in the long-running battle relating to Rangers Football Club's use of employee benefit trusts (EBTs) in connection with players' remuneration...

Protecting your Facebook posts from unwanted media attention gets backing from press regulator IPSO.

A rise in successful high profile defamation and privacy cases in the US is of note, as juries move to awarding huge sums in damages.

Guidance on how to comply with gender pay gap reporting two months ahead of the rules coming into force has been made available by the government and conciliation service Acas.

HMRC has published guidance on its views on the recent changes to the tax rules in relation to company windings up.

Harbottle & Lewis represented its client Pets at Home in this matter and secured an on air broadcast of the BBC Trust ruling.

In a welcome development for privacy and data protection rights, Google has announced that it will no longer use or scan the contents of personal Gmail accounts to assist with ad personalisation.

The UK GDPR provides an exemption that allows for certain individual rights to be restricted if they are likely to have a negative impact on immigration matters.

The long awaited report of the Law Commission on the surrogacy laws in England and Wales (alongside the Scottish Law Commission) was published yesterday.

At a recent interim hearing in the high profile case between Jeffrey Blue and Mike Ashley, who runs the Sports Direct chain, the High Court refused to give Times Newspapers Limited permission...

The CMA has just blocked Microsoft's proposed purchase of Activision over concerns the deal would alter the future of the cloud gaming market and potential for innovation.

On 16 February 2023 the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department released its Privacy Act Review Report 2022 (the "Report") on Australia's privacy laws. The review covered a wide range...

A successful civil case has highlighted how privacy law is being brought to bear against reported rises in the un-consensual and abusive sharing or sale of private intimate images and films.

The updated version of the Charity Governance Code has been published today

In a long-awaited announcement, the government today confirmed its intention to re-introduce the Finance Bill after the summer recess, with all previously announced measures to be included.

A new judgment, handed down by the High Court earlier this week, has significantly changed the law on litigation privilege.