In July, the UK Government opened a wide-ranging consultation, Unlocking Commercial Spaceflight for the UK, which sought industry’s views on the

The Prime Minister today announced additional restrictions to halt the increase of COVID-19 cases in Belgium and to prevent hospitals from reaching

Two years ago, I wrote an article which addressed the predictions that companies subject to the GDPR would suffer a deluge of class actions as soon

In the second of a two-part series on data protection-related class actions, Dispute Resolution partner, Bryony Hurst examines a few of the class

Data privacy class actions in Europe are here to stay, writes Bird & Bird partner Bryony Hurst. Two years ago, I wrote an article which addressed the

The effect of Brexit has been for UK banks engaged in EU markets to establish themselves in EU countries such as Ireland, The Netherlands and Germany

The global coronavirus pandemic has impacted us all, from governments taking measures to contain the spread and resurgence of the disease among their

Many of us may remember from our childhood a Christmas toy or TV advertisement which will never leave our minds and which we associate with a

The Court of Appeal decision in the sports data dispute between The Racing Partnership v Sports Information Services was handed down handed down on 9

The UK’s Digital, Media, Culture and Sport Committee announced (15 October 2020) that it is launching an inquiry into the economics of music

The High Court dismissed Asia Standard's appeal from an opposition decision where the Hearing Officer only carried out the comparison of goods and

In Canada, the US and a number of other common-law countries, copyright owners who win infringement claims can elect to receive statutory damages, a

HMRC have revealed that the biggest mistake made by multinationals ("MNEs") on transfer pricing is not basing their analysis on what happens in

The current Vertical Agreement Block Exemption Regulation (‘VBER’), has been in force since 2010, a mere ten years. Yet it is hard to think of

In the last few years, franchising has become an increasingly popular distribution structure across the EU. A franchise is a vertical agreement, and

The Court of Appeal has handed down its highly anticipated decision in the sports data dispute between The Racing Partnership v Sports Information

The UK government is planning to toughen modern slavery reporting rules following a parliamentary review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (MSA) and the

On the 10th September 2020, the EU Commission published its assessment on how the Code of Practice on Disinformation has been implemented. The Code

The UK Government announced on 24 September 2020 that some of the temporary COVID-19 measures within the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020

IR35 is a tax law introduced to tackle the problem of "disguised employment" where organisations engage off-payroll contractors on a self-employed