12/2/2025 2:41:31 PM GDPR Meets DMA: EU Guidance for Seamless Compliance By Anna Blest Geraldine Scali Marieke Datema As digital platforms dominate our daily lives, a swathe of important EU legislative initiatives has been rolled out by the EU to keep...
11/19/2025 3:04:50 PM The CMA's new consumer protection enforcement powers deployed: what does this mean for businesses? By Marieke Datema Anna Blest As the temperature in the UK drops, the CMA's enforcement of the UK's new consumer rules is heating up. On 17 and 18 November, the CMA...
11/13/2025 5:27:59 PM Meeting the cyber security challenge: The UK's new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill and what it means for you By Anna Blest Geraldine Scali After a long gestation and several rounds of public consultation on cyber security issues (focusing on updating the Network and...
11/11/2025 2:45:03 PM Mind the Gap: What the Hague 2019 Convention means for cross-border enforcement of English Judgments By Irina Tuca Agnieszka Bidzinska Victoria Clark When clients sign a contract, they want confidence: confidence that if a dispute arises, the agreed forum for resolving it will be...
11/3/2025 9:01:46 PM FCA Update on Non-Financial Misconduct and Culture in Financial Services By Samantha Paul Polly James The House of Commons Treasury Committee has published a letter from the FCA dated 16 October 2025 providing an update on its response to...
10/9/2025 3:59:48 PM From Veto to Victory: California's TFAIA Establishes Blueprint for Frontier AI Governance By Goli Mahdavi Following an earlier unsuccessful attempt, California has passed legislation regulating AI, and frontier AI models in particular, with...
10/7/2025 3:04:07 PM G7 statement on AI and Cybersecurity - 7 key considerations for financial institutions By Samantha Paul Anna Blest On 6 October 2025, HM Treasury published the G7 Cyber Expert Group’s statement on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity. While the...
10/6/2025 11:04:32 AM Navigating the Future of Financial Markets – FSMB Spotlight Review By Samantha Paul Polly James Naveen Vijh As financial markets undergo rapid transformation, the Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) marks a decade since the Fair and...
10/1/2025 8:51:33 AM The EU Digital Services Act through a GDPR lens: the EDPB's new draft guidelines By Geraldine Scali On 11 September 2025, the European Data Protection Board ("EDBP") published draft guidelines ("the Guidelines") on how to approach both...
9/10/2025 3:14:04 PM Contracting with consultants - how to protect your IP rights By Sasha Rubinstein When engaging consultants to deliver creative or technical services (such as brand or software development), businesses often overlook a...
9/4/2025 1:32:51 PM Impact of the ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion on Investment Treaty Disputes By Kevin Cheung Rachel Wong Introduction On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice handed down its unanimous Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States...
8/15/2025 2:53:37 PM Meeting the demands of overlapping regulatory requirements: The ICO's new guidance on using profiling tools By Geraldine Scali Anna Blest As part of its commitment to ensure regulatory coherence between the UK data protection regime and the new online safety regime, the ICO...
7/23/2025 2:01:51 PM Racing towards the August 2025 EU AI Act compliance deadline: Release of EU Commission guidelines for general-purpose AI models By Geraldine Scali Anna Blest Hot on the heels of the publication of the EU's voluntary Code of Practice for general purpose AI (GPAI) models, the European Commission...
7/17/2025 3:45:41 PM The EU's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice: Key Takeaways By Anna Blest Geraldine Scali Consisting of three chapters, covering transparency, copyright and safety and security, the EU has now issued its draft General-Purpose...
7/15/2025 4:45:07 PM Modernisation of service on the horizon By Sharon Kennedy It has long been anachronistic that service of proceedings could only be effected via email with explicit permission and that service...
7/3/2025 12:51:14 PM UK Modern Industrial Strategy: Financial Services at the Forefront of Economic Transformation By Samantha Paul Polly James Naveen Vijh Last week, the UK Government launched its Modern Industrial Strategy, a bold 10-year plan aimed at driving sustainable economic growth,...