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Facebook forces Admiral to pull plan to price car insurance based on posts
Press
03 November 2016Lewis Silkin commented in an article for The Guardian which reports on Facebook's objection for Admiral to use Facebook posts to analyse the personalities of car owners and set the price of their insurance.
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The implications for data protection law in the UK and GDPR compliance plans in the eye of the Brexit Storm
03 November 2016On the 4th May 2016, a fundamental milestone in the history of EU Data protection law was reached with the adoption of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) achieving harmonisation of the rules across the EU after four years of hard-fought negotiations.
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The Lawyer In-House Counsel as Business Partner Conference
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02 November 2016Lewis Silkin is delighted to be speaking at the upcoming In-House Counsel as Business Partner conference hosted by The Lawyer on 7-8 November 2016.
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Recognition for Lewis Silkin’s Michael Burd in The Spear’s 500
Press Release
02 November 2016The long-standing market leading position of Michael Burd has once again been reinforced in The Spear’s 500 as ‘outstanding in field’ in the Employment Lawyers category.
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Workplace sexual harassment - how employers in Europe must respond
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31 October 2016Hannah Price has written an article for People Management discussing Workplace sexual harassment and how employers in Europe must respond. The article comments on how more than half the women surveyed by the TUC earlier this year said that they had been sexually harassed at work, with most admitting they had not reported it.
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Uber drivers win first round in employment status dispute
31 October 2016An employment tribunal has ruled that drivers engaged by Uber are “workers”, not self-employed contractors, meaning they will be entitled to national minimum wage, paid annual leave and whistleblower protection
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Advertising needs a rethink in a brand new world
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31 October 2016Brinsley Dresden has commented in an article for the Financial Times which discusses the increasing problems that advertisers faces in the "brand new world" and how they are having to work harder than ever to find their audience.
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Immigration and nationality
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28 October 2016Andrew Osborne has commented in the Lawyer Monthly on the potential Brexit effects and impacts on the sports sector, and the business therein.
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Our thoughts on 'Brexit'
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27 October 2016Having listened to the concerns of our clients, and considered what the potential impact will be, we have prepared the following series of briefings on 'Brexit'.
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Lewis Silkin partners with ad and creative agency leading lights for LGBT event
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26 October 2016First of its kind networking forum to feature thought provoking Q&A session with LGBT luminaries.
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Broadband Ads: End of the line... (rental)?
26 October 2016From 31 October 2016, broadband ads will need to be much clearer in relation to price claims.
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Anti-smoking experts to sue Times for claims of tobacco payouts
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25 October 2016Lewis Silkin have been featured in an article from The Guardian on a group of scientists and public health experts that are to take legal action against the Times newspaper after it reported claims from a leading charity that they were in the pay of the tobacco industry.
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Flowers fails to reign over Cardiff City Council but solidifies the importance of CPR 83.2- Landlords beware!
25 October 2016Lady Justice Arden and Lord Justice Briggs in the matter of Cardiff County Council v Lee (Flowers) [2016] EWCA Civ 1034 (“Flowers”).
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And finally...Brexit (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 3)
23 October 2016Speculation about Brexit’s impact on intellectual property rights caused the UKIPO to release its guidance note “IP and Brexit: The Facts” in August.
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Pay to play (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 3)
23 October 2016Over the last few years, the Ministry of Justice has sought to fill the gap in its funding through repeated increases to court fees.
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Hyperlinks – the saga continues (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 3)
23 October 2016The CJEU has issued another judgment on copyright infringement and hyperlinking; this time in relation to linking to unauthorised content.
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Karen Millen - lessons from an SPA (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 3)
23 October 2016Karen Millen, founder of the Karen Millen fashion brand has lost a High Court challenge to use her own name for homeware in the US and China.
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Brand owners gain another tool in the war against counterfeits (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 3)
23 October 2016Brand owners will welcome a ruling from the CJEU over the summer that an operator of a physical marketplace can be an ‘intermediary’ for the purposes of Article 11 of the IP Enforcement Directive.
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Pretty fly for wi-fi (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 3)
23 October 2016Those who provide access to free wi-fi networks will be breathing a sigh of relief after the CJEU’s judgment this September that providers of such networks can benefit from protection under the E-Commerce Directive.
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IPO doesn’t see anything wrong with Specsavers’ trade mark (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 3)
23 October 2016Specsavers has managed to get its application to register “should’ve” (as in, “should’ve gone to Specsavers”) past the examination stage at the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO).