The BHS Saga: Stark Lessons For Company Directors

The European Union has enacted its most comprehensive overhaul of passenger rights legislation in over twenty years, introducing significant operational changes for airlines while maintaining the core architecture of the existing compensation framework. With implementation required by October 2027, carriers face expanded obligations around automatic reimbursements, rerouting rights, and assistance provisions, alongside new clarity on extraordinary circumstances and claims procedures.

The European Commission has proposed the EU KIDS Act, introducing age-based restrictions and comprehensive safety-by-design obligations for social media, video-sharing platforms, online games, and AI chatbots.

TLT's AI Brief for September examines the growing pressure on accountability and disclosure in artificial intelligence, covering new regulatory consultations, landmark legal statements on AI liability...

The European Commission has proposed the EU KIDS Act, a comprehensive regulation that extends far beyond a simple social media ban for under-13s. This ambitious framework introduces tiered age-based restrictions, safety-by-design obligations across digital services including AI chatbots and online games, and mandatory certified age-verification systems. With potential fines reaching 6% of global turnover and enforcement mechanisms piggybacking on existing DSA machinery, organisations offering digital servic

The independent Commission's findings against Manchester City FC for serious breaches of Premier League financial rules have sparked crucial debates about transparency, disciplinary processes, and the future of sports regulation. This landmark decision raises fundamental questions about how sporting bodies balance fairness, consistency, and regulatory discretion when enforcing financial compliance rules. The case's implications extend far beyond football, offering insights into regulatory frameworks, sancti

The European Commission has proposed the EU KIDS Act, introducing comprehensive restrictions on minors' access to social media and video-sharing platforms while imposing extensive online safety requirements across digital services. This landmark legislation will require businesses to implement safety-by-design frameworks, age verification systems, and guardian controls, with particularly stringent compliance obligations for Very Large Online Platforms that must prove their services are safe through independ

Lewis Silkin launches Lettu, an AI-powered platform designed to revolutionize how creators, talent managers, agencies and brands negotiate and finalize commercial deals.

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has issued new guidance on how it will enforce restrictions on advertising less healthy food and drink products online and on television. Through several July 2026 rulings involving major brands like M&M's, Domino's, and KFC, the ASA clarified when the 'brand advertising exemption' applies and when product imagery crosses the line into depicting specific restricted products.

The Law Society's October 2026 foresight report examines how autonomous AI could fundamentally reshape England and Wales' justice system, warning that without proper digital infrastructure and governance frameworks, agentic AI risks compounding existing systemic failures rather than resolving them. With 94% of UK legal professionals now using AI tools regularly...

The European Commission has published its Code of Practice on marking and labelling AI-generated content, helping businesses to meet new transparency duties under the EU AI Act.

Businesses and consumers have grown to love subscription models, though their reasons may differ. While these models offer convenience, they can be complicated and difficult to exit. This may lead to consumers paying for services they no longer want or use. The government is addressing this through the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. The new rules are expected to come into force in January 2027.

The UK’s last two Budgets have materially reshaped the tax treatment for sales to Employee Ownership Trusts (EOT), tightening requirements and shifting from a full tax exemption to a halved relief, while leaving the broader principles in place.

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA) introduces an important new compliance duty for businesses. From 19 June 2026, all organisations must have a clear and accessible process for handling data protection complaints.

The Government has published its response to the 2025 consultation on improving the implementation of biodiversity net gain (“BNG”) for minor, medium, and brownfield development in England. The proposed package of targeted reforms are intended to reduce disproportionate cost and administrative burdens on developers while retaining the core requirement to deliver a minimum 10% net gain from most development.

Several market commentary pieces this week, including an Insider UK survey of UK restructuring market professionals (15 January 2026), amongst others, suggest that during 2026 the UK economy will not collapse, but shift towards a more complex reality where timing, creditor behaviour, and asset focus are key. RSM UK’s Economic Outlook update (13 January 2026) questions whether it will be a year of muddling through. We suspect the answer is yes.

Almost 7 years on from the UK Jurisdiction Task Force’s seminal report on the law of property relating to purely digital assets and 3 years on from the Law Commission’s own 2023 report on the subject, you would be forgiven for believing that we had reached the point of certainty with respect to how the English law treats digital assets such as crypto-currencies.

Glencore AG is a company based in Switzerland, one of the world's largest commodity traders. Yesterday it reached a settlement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the key points of which are...

The London Stock Exchange’s August 2026 reforms to the AIM Rules could make AIM materially more attractive to Australian mining and resources companies, particularly established ASX-listed issuers considering a secondary London quotation.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how commercial disputes are conducted, how much they cost, and how fast they develop. If you run a small and medium-sized enterprise, this is no longer a matter to leave solely with your lawyers when disputes land on your desk. Dispute resolution must become part of your core business strategy – starting now.