8/22/2025 3:24:32 PM From Vessel 1 to Vessel 2: Navigating Confidentiality Across Arbitrations Involving Connected Clients By Wes Walker Yen Hoe The High Court handed down an important judgment on 8 May 2025 concerning arbitral confidentiality. The judgment should be of particular...
8/21/2025 12:28:47 PM Closing the gender health gap: patenting trends in women’s health By Charlie French Laura Harwood Eden Winlow Maria Ryan Melissa Dix +2 more... Show less Medical research into women's health is rapidly expanding, with investment into female-owned and female-focused companies rising year on...
8/20/2025 10:34:20 AM Legal risks under the new Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 By Sarah Hill Helin Kaya In June 2025, Bristows’ Data Protection, Privacy & Cyber team posted about the imminent passing of the Data (Use and Access) Bill into...
8/18/2025 9:56:13 AM Directors: Are you ready for mandatory ID verification? Steps you need to take to ensure compliance By Samuel Munday Ben Lammin From 18 November 2025, individual directors and persons with significant control (PSCs) of UK companies will be required to verify their...
8/15/2025 3:32:17 PM MHRA announces Early Access Service for Innovative Medical Devices By Hugo Kent-Egan Alex Denoon In another welcome development, the MHRA has published an interesting Statement of Policy Intent for Early Access Service to Innovative...
8/14/2025 11:42:10 AM Women’s healthcare and UK competition enforcement – recent developments By Antonia Kendrick Healthcare generally is a priority enforcement sector for competition watchdogs across the world, including the UK’s Competition and...
8/13/2025 11:02:34 AM Hopcraft v Close Brothers Ltd: Supreme Court puts the brakes on liability for bribery in tort By Robert Graham Charlie Purdie Hopcraft v Close Brothers Ltd; Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd; Wrench v FirstRand Bank Ltd [2025] UKSC 33 In a landmark decision, the...
8/12/2025 1:06:31 PM US injunction on the Horizon? Sony claims Tencent video game is a “slavish clone” of Sony’s Horizon series By Jake Palmer Sony is suing the Chinese corporation Tencent in a California court, claiming that Tencent’s video game “Light of Motiram” is a “slavish...
8/12/2025 9:29:54 AM Court of Appeal clarifies the Court’s jurisdiction to make directions relating to the Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Road Traffic Accidents Claims By Naomi Foale Introduction The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the Court has jurisdiction to make directions in a claim within the Pre-Action...
8/7/2025 9:15:57 AM From academia to industry: The role of university spin-outs in women’s health innovation By Laura Harwood Melissa Dix University spin-out companies offer a means of commercialising valuable intellectual property (IP) and technology generated through...
8/5/2025 4:38:44 PM Focussing in on long-arm jurisdiction: the UPC grants first injunction covering the UK By Gregory Bacon Maria Ryan This article was first published in Kluwer Patent Blog, August 2025. In a recent decision by the Mannheim Local Division, the UPC granted...
8/4/2025 1:40:59 PM Recognition of CE-marked medical devices in the UK By Hugo Kent-Egan Alex Denoon On 22 July 2025, the UK Government signalled that it is likely to pivot back to indefinite recognition of CE Marking of devices. In a...