9/17/2025 11:46:43 AM Growth in luxury sponsoring sports By Rob Powell Sebastian Stewart 2025 has already seen a myriad of high-profile sports events including the Masters, the Americas Cup and Wimbledon – many of which...
9/17/2025 8:56:13 AM Debt still due when non-fulfilment of a condition precedent is due to a party’s breach By Alexandra Illingworth In the recent case of King Crude Carriers SA v Ridgebury November LLC, the Court of Appeal ruled that a party cannot rely on its own...
9/16/2025 10:05:01 AM Privileged material: The high stakes of inadvertent disclosure By Yen Hoe Summary In a recent decision by the High Court in The New Lottery Co Ltd v Gambling Commission [2025] EWHC 1058 (TCC) concerning the...
9/15/2025 1:50:11 PM Court of Appeal upholds long-term supply contract despite open pricing clause By Ben Coleman Patrick Newlands Summary The Court of Appeal has upheld a long-term supply contract despite the fact the price was not fully agreed. It found that there...
9/11/2025 1:21:08 PM $100m Boost for Women’s Health Research By Anna Honey Gabriela Necula Melinda French Gates has announced a $100 million investment into women’s health through a partnership between Pivotal (the coalition...
9/11/2025 11:31:36 AM Changes to payroll tax responsibilities for employment businesses and umbrella companies By Farhad Shahidi Manon Rattle Introduction Umbrella companies are often used by employment businesses (for example, recruitment agencies) as a way of paying the...
9/10/2025 3:12:31 PM Consultation on changes to the UK designs framework: a condensed summary By Toby Headdon The government has recently launched a wide ranging consultation aimed at overhauling UK design law in order to modernise the system. The...
9/9/2025 4:12:17 PM Whose Shoes Are You Wearing? Post-Sale Confusion in Iconix v Dream Pairs By Marc Linsner Kyrana Hulstein Kyrana Hulstein and Marc Linsner, ‘Whose Shoes Are You Wearing? Post-Sale Confusion in Iconix v Dream Pairs: a summary of Iconix...
9/4/2025 8:57:18 AM Breaking Resistance – could AI revolutionise antibiotic discovery? By Claire Smith Stefano Incarbone Using generative AI to discover new antibiotics On 14 August 2025, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reported1 that a team...
9/4/2025 8:26:40 AM Injunctions: Taking the hackers to court By Marc Dautlich Freya Ollerearnshaw Imagine your organisation falls victim to a nightmare cyber extortion event. Hopefully you have a cyber response plan already in place,...
9/2/2025 8:33:23 AM Crash Course on the Arbitration Act 2025 By Freya Ollerearnshaw The Arbitration Act 2025 is now one month old. If you haven’t already got on top of this new legislation and how it may impact your...
8/27/2025 12:25:35 PM The UPC PI Annual – issue 2 By Claire Phipps-Jones Hannah Rigby Cassie Blackburn It has been a little over two years since the UPC issued its first order for provisional measures on 22 June 2023. The first year saw six...