Bristows

12/8/2025 5:25:46 PM

Unlimited compensation for unfair dismissal

By Manon Rattle

On Friday the Government published a surprising amendment to the Employment Rights Bill that would remove the cap on the compensatory...

12/4/2025 5:39:48 PM

Copyright in applied art - are we any clearer?

By Simon Clark

The CJEU has today issued its judgment in two combined cases answering questions relating to the subsistence and infringement of...

11/28/2025 1:08:10 PM

U-turn: Government backtracks on day-one unfair dismissal protection

By Manon Rattle

In a press release yesterday, the Government u-turned on its manifesto commitment to make unfair dismissal protection a day one right. ...

11/24/2025 2:11:44 PM

Design consultation responses: Deadline this week!

By Simon Clark

With less than a week to go before the deadline for submitting responses to the Government’s consultation on designs (27 November), we...

11/14/2025 2:56:15 PM

The judgment in Getty Images v Stability AI in tables and bullet points

By Toby Headdon

The much anticipated High Court judgment in Getty Images v Stability AI has been handed down. As we knew would be the case, with Getty...

11/10/2025 11:30:21 AM

High Court upholds fines imposed by Ofcom for serious and repeated breaches of the Broadcasting Code

By Ben Coleman Mark Brown Naomi Foale +1 more...

Speed Read The High Court has given for The Office of Communications (“Ofcom”) in its claim against Star China Media Limited (“Star...

11/6/2025 5:25:58 PM

More time to make amends or greater uncertainty for employers? ACAS early conciliation period set to double

By Emily Atkinson Ciara Redican

Pursuant to regulations published yesterday, the period for ACAS early conciliation will double from six weeks to twelve weeks for any...

11/5/2025 9:22:14 AM

EU Commission issues preliminary findings in DSA investigations into TikTok and Meta

By Mike Edgar Amelia Brasnett

On 24 October, the European Commission announced preliminary findings as part of its investigations into Meta and TikTok under the...

10/30/2025 3:47:02 PM

Rights, rewrites and reform: unfair dismissal and the Employment Rights Bill

By Emily Atkinson Simon Bayliss

The Employment Rights Bill promises to bring some of the most significant changes to employment law in recent times, as we discussed in...

10/27/2025 4:42:28 PM

Much Chatter about Chattels: Returning premises free from tenant’s occupation

By Gaby Omole Solomon Chann

When a tenant reaches the end of their lease (e.g. by exercising a break option, or simply by reaching the expiry of the term), it is a...

10/22/2025 9:05:01 AM

GRUR Annual Meeting 2025: A panel discussion on the infringement of patents with use claims, particularly second medical use claims, in the US, UK, UPC and Germany

By Dominic Adair

This article was first published in Kluwer Patent Blog [October, 2025]. Coinciding with the 100th year anniversary of the German and UK...

10/21/2025 12:44:04 PM

TechBio UK 2025: A view from the conference and beyond

By Adam Coughlin

On 16 October 2025, Adam Coughlin, Naoise Gaffney and Samuel Munday from Bristows attended TechBio UK, an annual conference hosted by the...