Jul 31, 2020 Important UK Supreme Court decision – limiting the reflective loss principle By Alice Brindle Summary In a landmark decision, seven Supreme Court judges have unanimously narrowed the scope of the reflective loss principle first...
Jul 29, 2020 SEP disputes – the willing licensee takes on a new look – German perspectives (Part 1/3) By Dr. Stephan Dorn Laura Whiting A key determinant in patent infringement disputes relating to standard essential patents (SEPs) is the assessment of whether the user of...
Jul 22, 2020 UK bans Huawei, starting with 5G, and Europe may follow By Nabeel Yousef Dr. Stephan Denk Natasha Good Lukas Pomaroli Katerina Gross +2 more... Show less On July 14, 2020, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued guidance that bans Huawei from involvement in future 5G...
Jul 17, 2020 WorkLife 2.0: UK labour enforcement in the post-COVID era By David Mendel Mila Kostadinova Nicholas Squire Matthew Taylor, the Interim Director of Labour Market Enforcement (LME) for the UK Government published yesterday his annual report ('the...
Jul 17, 2020 Germany raids its own financial intelligence authority over backlog of suspicious activity reports By Daniel Travers Marcel Michaelis Janina Heinz It is not every day that one criminal law enforcement authority raids another. However, that is just what happened when, on 14 July ...
Jul 16, 2020 Employee surveillance in the DIFC and ADGM – striking the right balance By Kim Rosenberg Zara Merali Kiyashni Kollapen Employee surveillance is a contentious topic given the inherent tension between the employer’s interest in protecting its operations and...
Jul 15, 2020 Russia: new law affects arbitration agreements concluded with parties targeted by sanctions By Alexey Yadykin A new Russian statute has changed the rules relevant to arbitration and choice-of-court agreements for disputes involving Russian parties...
Jul 15, 2020 Will the new wave of insolvencies affect arbitrations? By Noiana Marigo Natalia Zibibbo Matheus Bastos Oliveira The COVID-19 pandemic is upending economies globally, causing a wave of unexpected insolvencies. The businesses that remain standing may...
Jul 15, 2020 UK/EU sanctions landscape continues to develop at pace By Neil Donovan Tahleel Lateef We have seen three significant developments in the UK and EU sanctions regimes in recent weeks: 1. UK goes alone on Magnitsky...
Jul 15, 2020 Non-essential travel to EU – the latest EU recommendation and related pitfalls By Laura Llangozi Jean-Francois Gerard Almost two months after many countries lifted their pandemic measures and at a time when some countries and regions are putting...
Jul 14, 2020 Court of Appeal confirms UK bank’s approach to foreign sanctions law By Charles Mondelli Anthea Bowater The Court of Appeal has confirmed that a UK bank was justified in refusing to make payments under a facility agreement where those...
Jul 14, 2020 COVID-19: Belgian tax measures in and out of the crisis. What’s next? By Nikolaas Van Robbroeck Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Belgian government and legislator have introduced a series of financial support...