10/30/2026 3:41:01 PM New Commission Article 102 Guidelines – significance for IP rich companies By Sophie Lawrance Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU can represent a source of risk for dominant companies. Holding IP rights may...
10/30/2026 2:31:57 PM Ready or not: today marks the next wave of ERA changes By Manon Rattle Today (30 October 2026), a number of key changes under the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA) come into force, in particular: Sexual...
10/28/2026 7:26:12 PM Autumn Budget 2026: key business tax announcements By Julia Cockroft Tabitha Reed Simon Bayliss Sean Cusack Gabriela Swiderska +2 more... Show less The business tax announcements in today’s Budget centred on two themes: resisting broad-based tax rises and maintaining stability, while...
10/22/2026 2:14:44 PM The PHP vulnerabilities: what organisations need to do By Marc Dautlich Charlie Hawes You may never have heard of PHP, but it is an open source programming language used to run websites and online services, including...
10/19/2026 4:18:52 PM Andy Burnham announces plans to ease non-compete clause rules By Sean Cusack Manon Rattle In a speech at Innovation Nation Summit in Manchester, the Prime Minister has confirmed that the Government will legislate to ease...
10/16/2026 3:24:10 PM Baby Loss Awareness Week: supporting employees through pregnancy loss and bereavement By Manon Rattle Gabriela Swiderska Baby Loss Awareness Week took place from 9 to 15 October 2026. The week seeks to raise awareness of pregnancy and baby loss, to remember...
10/14/2026 3:52:29 PM Time’s up for fake countdowns: CMA hands out £6 million in fines By Naina Patel The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today announced fines totalling £6 million against three businesses for misleading sales...
10/14/2026 10:54:28 AM EU Data Act: Don’t forget about switching By Nicholas Mercer The Act provides customers with switching rights which have the potential to change business models for cloud contracts, but the...
10/13/2026 3:35:54 PM Braking news: Ebert v Ferrari determines the territorial limits of pre-action disclosure By Anna Hall Aadam Bhaijee In Ebert v Ferrari S.p.A [2026] EWHC 2279 (TCC), for the first time, the Technology and Construction Court has answered the question the...
10/12/2026 8:30:47 AM DBIST consultation on competition collective actions and investigations: Bristows' response By Sophie Lawrance Bristows was pleased to respond to the recent DBIST consultation into the future of competition redress and enforcement in the UK....
10/9/2026 10:43:28 AM Secondaries step into the mainstream By Julia Cockroft Oliver Alsop For founders, employees and early investors in private companies, realising the value of their shares has traditionally meant waiting for...
10/8/2026 2:25:35 PM Anticompetitive agreements in the pharmaceutical sector in United Kingdom By Sophie Lawrance Sean-Paul Brankin James Batsford Xisca Borrás Jamie Hatzel +2 more... Show less Our latest contribution to Lexology Panoramic: Pharmaceutical Antitrust 2026 provides an overview of the UK competition law framework as...