30 Sep, 2024 Seminal vote to suspend competition law in Guernsey allows merger to complete By James Batsford Stephen Smith Last week the States of Guernsey took the novel and historic step of voting to suspend the application of competition law to allow Sure...
30 Sep, 2024 Changes to the CPR taking effect on 1 October 2024: Power to compel ADR By Wes Walker Last year, the Court of Appeal in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 141 decided that courts in England...
27 Sep, 2024 The past week in data protection By Jamie Drucker Here are the data protection news items which caught my eye this week: Firstly, a bit of breaking news. The Irish DPC has fined Meta €91m...
27 Sep, 2024 Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Adrian Chew Milly Wickson Rebecca Daramola The Irides Weekly Update is our round-up of patent litigation news highlights from around the world. Taking its name from the plural of...
26 Sep, 2024 English Courts prepared to grant anti-suit injunction to protect arbitration seated outside the jurisdiction By Wes Walker Speed read On 18 September 2024, the Supreme Court handed down its unanimous decision in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024]...
25 Sep, 2024 Thank you for the .music By Simon Clark One of the most anticipated generic top-level domains (gTLD) in recent times will drop for general availability on 8 October 2024. This...
23 Sep, 2024 2024 ABPI Code of Practice launched - orange is the new blue By Jamie Hatzel The ABPI and the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) have announced the release of the latest edition of the ABPI...
20 Sep, 2024 Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Brian Cordery Sophie Britton Alex Mocanu The Irides Weekly Update is our round-up of patent litigation news highlights from around the world. Taking its name from the plural of...
20 Sep, 2024 Premier League shirt deals top £1bn for the first time By Rob Powell A recent report from Sporting Intelligence estimates that Premier League clubs have collectively earned over £1bn for the 2024-25 season...
20 Sep, 2024 The past week (or so) in data protection By Jamie Drucker It’s time for a short bite-sized round-up of the data protection stories which caught my eye over the last week or so. Another set of new...
20 Sep, 2024 Bristows' SnippITs - TCS v DBS: Lessons from Major IT Dispute (Bonus lessons - Part 5) By Anna Cook Henry Bentham Freya Ollerearnshaw This post is the latest in the Bristows’ SnippITs series, which pulls together the key practical takeaways from recent court decisions...
20 Sep, 2024 DSARs, trade secrets, and automated decision-making: what counts as "meaningful information about the logic involved"? By Mac Macmillan If an individual is subject to automated decision-making, including profiling, the right of subject access under GDPR includes a right to...