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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) considered three rulings concerning the new restrictions on advertising less healthy food and drink (HFSS)...
The European Commission has announced that it has completed the eligibility checks for two European Citizens' Initiatives (ECIs), registering the...
MLex: AliExpress says it will appeal against the European Commission's record €550 million fine for failing to adequately assess and mitigate the...
The appointment of new ministers by new Prime Minister Andy Burnham has resulted in a number of 'machinery of government' changes to departments. The...
What are perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free licences?Licences are sometimes expressed to be ‘perpetual’, ‘irrevocable’ or ‘royalty-free’, but...
Reputational damage claims—alternative causes of actionThis Practice Note considers the relationship between causes of action for reputational damage...
DefamationThe tort of defamation is governed by a mixture of statute and common law. The relevant statutory law is contained in:•the Defamation Act...
Software escrowIntroductionEscrow is the process of two or more parties placing property or instruments in the hands of a trusted third party (an...
Do search engines such as Google have any liability for copyright infringement when they use processes such as web crawling and indexing to capture and display content, including text and images?Web crawling describes the process in which computer programs (often referred to as ‘bots’, ‘spiders’ or
Domain name registration and transfer (.uk)STOP PRESS—Impact of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023: This document contains references to retained EU law (REUL) and associated terms introduced by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 in connection with Brexit. From 1 January
What is the difference between an appeal and a review?What is an appeal?An appeal in insolvency proceedings is no different to an appeal in normal litigation. An appeal will be allowed only if the appeal court is satisfied that the decision of the lower court was 'wrong' or 'unjust because of a
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some
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