Assigned contracts: can an arbitration agreement be challenged under S.67 AA 1996?
The Court has determined a novel point, namely that challenges to the assignment of arbitration agre…
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CJEU delivers judgment in Facebook “Like” button case
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) last week handed down its decision in a case conce…
ICO proposes £184M fine for British Airways in first major GDPR sanction
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection supervisory authority, today a…
Heading for a Hard Brexit? Thoughts for the Facilities Management Outsourcing sector
It is the last week of June 2019. The UK referendum took place three years ago in June 2016. In Marc…
Danish furniture company fined for deletion failure
The Danish Data Protection Agency (DPA) has recommended a fine of 1.5 million Danish kroner (approx.…
Mitigating risk for lenders of brownfield sites
Mitigating risk for lenders of brownfield sites We are currently running our Brownfield Campaign to…
Lease or licence – why you should care
It is common for heads of terms to refer to a licence to use or occupy a property when the agreed te…
Spanish football league La Liga fined around €250,000 for a breach of GDPR
The top Spanish football league, La Liga, has been fined around €250,000 for a breach of the GDPR by…
Fladgate advises Ocado on its investment into Jones Food Company
Fladgate advised Ocado on its recent investment into vertical farming start-up, Jones Food Company. …
How Fare the Winds of Change – An Update on Disclosure in Civil Litigation
On 1 January this year, the Business & Property Courts rolled out the ‘Disclosure Pilot Scheme’ (DPS…
959 days later….
In what could best be described as a rather ambitious application, in State A v Party B[1], the Appl…
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Real Estate Funds - the new elections regime
The extension of capital gains tax to non-resident investors in UK real estate has made life more co…
Liability for an Overseas Subsidiary – Supreme Court Allows case to Proceed to Trial
On 10 April 2019 the Supreme Court handed down its judgment upholding the Court of Appeal ruling tha…
Fladgate advises Ocado on investment into Karakuri
Fladgate was delighted to advise Ocado Group's venture arm on its investment into UK-based tech star…
Fladgate advises Seko S.p.A on the acquisition of the Brightwell Group
Fladgate has advised Seko S.p.A, an Italian based global leader in the design and manufacture of dos…
Fladgate advises BB7 on investment by BGF and acquisition of Omega Fire Engineering
Fladgate advises BB7 on investment by BGF and acquisition of Omega Fire to create UK's leading fire …
Cryptocurrency estate planning: lessons from QuadrigaCX
In a plot line worthy of a Dan Brown novel, the 30 year old CEO and founder of QuadrigaCX, Gerald Co…
The end of the blame game - the arrival of no fault divorce
Family lawyers have been campaigning for some time for the laws relating to divorce to be changed. I…
Passport, Sun Cream, Parental Consent!!?
The children have broken up from school…. we have some sun in the British sky…. Wimbledon is on, str…
‘Secret’ Commissions - A summary of recent guidance handed down by the Court of Appeal.
A fiduciary is someone who has undertaken to act for another in a particular matter in circumstances…
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Non-Party Allowed Access to Court Documents for use in Arbitration
In a potential controversial decision, the Commercial Court has granted a third party the right to a…
It’s not over ‘till it’s over – Settlement and Limitation
Settlement is not always the end, and breaches of settlement terms are not uncommon. Parties should …
It is not just named parties that can sue under a contract
In Filatona Trading Ltd & Another v Navigator Equities Ltd & Others the Court held that an LCIA arbi…
When appealing bears fruit: Pear Technologies v EUIPO – Apple
Are apples different from pears? Or are they both just fruit? Or, as cockney rhyming slang would hav…
