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...
8/13/2025 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 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...
7/31/2025 11:40:38 AM Bristows’ SnippITs - The importance of “splitting hairs” in your settlement agreements: Zaloumis v Steele By Freya Ollerearnshaw Helin Kaya This post is the latest in the Bristows’ SnippITs series, which pulls together the key practical takeaways from recent court decisions...
7/30/2025 3:01:07 PM It’s time to act on the new R&D regime By Julia Cockroft Tabitha Reed Although the UK’s new R&D tax relief regime came into force on 1 April 2024, many companies have only now completed their first...
7/17/2025 8:59:33 AM Bristows’ SnippITs - Good faith, lost chances, and concrete consequences: Matière v ABM By Freya Ollerearnshaw This post is the latest in the Bristows’ SnippITs series, which pulls together the key practical takeaways from recent court decisions...
7/8/2025 3:12:02 PM The 2019 Hague Judgments Convention is now in force in the UK By Ben Coleman Headline The Hague Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters...
7/3/2025 3:36:36 PM Insights from the 2025 QMUL International Arbitration Survey By Muhammad Karimabadi The 2025 International Arbitration Survey, titled "The Path Forward: Realities and Opportunities in Arbitration" has been published by...
7/2/2025 4:28:20 PM Ocean Clap Shipping Limited v Global Offshore Services BV - getting guarantees right: practical implications between “see to it” and “on demand” guarantees By Barney Bussell Wes Walker Ocean Clap Shipping Limited v Global Offshore Services BV [2025] EWHC 1591 (Comm) (26 June 2025). In finding for the shipowners on...
6/23/2025 3:31:13 PM Divisional Court Delivers Stark Warning on AI Use By Max Palmer Following on from our recent article on the citation of fake legal authorities in the High Court in The King on the application of...
6/16/2025 1:48:34 PM Change your expert, risk your case! By Sarah Hill Instructing expert witnesses in high value, technical disputes is an inevitability. Often multiple experts per party are required. Unless...
6/9/2025 1:46:25 PM AI and copyright finally have their day in Court - Getty v Stability AI By Naomi Foale In what will be a landmark test of how artificial intelligence (AI) can be accommodated within legal frameworks designed for a pre-AI...