by Sam Hollis | Dec 1, 2020 | News Items
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has updated its post-Brexit transition guidance regarding the conversion of Centrally Authorised Products to UK Marketing Authorisations. The MHRA has updated sections 6–8 and the associated Annex table to...
by Simon Ward | Sep 11, 2020 | News Items
The Competition and Markets Authority has updated its competition law risk guide for managers aiming ‘to help managers, directors and their advisers to stay on the right side of the law’. The updated guide has been developed in cooperation with the Institute of Risk...
by Simon Ward | Jul 9, 2020 | Contracts, News Items
HM Treasury has revealed that people on paternity and maternity leave who return to work in the coming months will be eligible for the government’s furlough scheme even after the 10 June 2020 cut-off date. According to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak:...
by Simon Ward | Jul 9, 2020 | News Items
As lockdown restrictions start to ease and businesses begin to reopen, the Information Commissioner’s Office has set out the key steps organisations need to take around the use of personal data. Businesses must now be even more responsible with people’s personal data...
by Simon Ward | Jul 9, 2020 | News Items
The Government has launched a review of employment rights for survivors of domestic abuse to determine what actions can be taken to help these individuals in the workplace. The review forms part of the Government’s wider approach to combat domestic abuse and seeks...
by Simon Ward | Jul 9, 2020 | News Items
The Information Commissioner’s Office has published guidance on homeworking to help organisations understand the security risks and the measures they should implement to mitigate them. This includes an IT security checklist, best practices on when using...
by Simon Ward | Oct 10, 2019 | Business, Contracts, Tech
Automatic email signatures may create a binding contract. We all, well most of us, use automatically generated signatures in an email footer. The recent case of Stavros Neocleous and Kalliroy Neocleous v Christine Rees [2019] EWCH 2462 (Ch) held that an automatically...
by Simon Ward | Sep 13, 2019 | Contracts
When a clearly drafted contract is not enough. It goes without saying that any agreement should be clearly drafted. By that we mean that that the contents of that sheet of paper (or lever arch file!) should be easy to understand and record exactly what has been agreed...
by Simon Ward | Aug 12, 2019 | Business
Embedding the Facebook like button? Beware the data protection implications! In Fashion ID v Verbraucherzentrale NRV 29/07/2019 (C-40/17) the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that operators of websites who embed the Facebook ‘Like’ button are joint controllers...
by Simon Ward | Mar 25, 2019 | Contracts
Indemnity clauses in commercial contracts. How to step through the minefield without losing your head (or your business). Few terms in a commercial contract are negotiated with such intensity as indemnity clauses. And rightly so. Providing an indemnity which...
by Simon Ward | Mar 18, 2019 | Business
Do You Own Your Idea? For those of us who are of more mature years, we remember a time where emails were written without the insertion of a single emoji. Nowadays, emojis are everywhere. Communication by WhatsApp and Snapchat are often more emoji than writing. Given...
by Simon Ward | Feb 21, 2019 | Contracts
How To Avoid Disaster By Having Well-Drafted Service Level Agreements In early 2018, KFC gave a real-life example of the importance of service level agreements (SLAs) in a manner which far outweighs anything one could learn at business school. The fast-food chain,...
