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Irate RBS bankers could challenge bonus clawbacks
08 March 2013In an eFinancialCareers article, James Davies suggests that the investment bankers who have had their bonuses reduced, or even clawed back, in response to the breaches of others may challenge the decision as it could appear to be legally dubious. James argues that issues arise when bonus clawbacks are used as penalties rather than as recompense for damage done. RBS, which is 82 percent owned by the UK government, announced last week that it was cutting bonuses for 2012 and clawing back bonuses for previous years to cover its £390m Libor fixing fine.
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Andrew Osborne's comments featured for a range of leading news outlets
22 November 2018Andrew Osborne's comments on the effect of Brexit on foreign player imports to the Premier League have been featured for ESPN, Mail Online and Bloomberg.
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Raising finance in London
09 February 2009Initial public offerings are not the only way to raise money in London writes Nadim Khan in the Mining Journal article.
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Raising funds in 2013
25 January 2013Nadim Khan and Ian McDonald write about their expectation for alternative financing to continue to be sought in the year ahead in their article for Mining Journal.
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Broadcast: Fremantle raises questions over Bring the Noise
28 October 2015Originally published in Broadcast: Fremantle Media UK has written to Sky and the indie behind Bring the Noise seeking assurances that the music panel show is unrelated to a format it previously pitched to the broadcaster.
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It never rains, but it pours…(Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 1)
27 September 2015Registered designs are used to protect the appearance of products. In considering whether to allow registration, several factors come into play: what else is already out there (the ‘prior art’); who will use it (the ‘informed user’); and what ‘degree of freedom’ does the designer have in arriving at the particular design?
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Cliff Fluet to lead International Radio Festival's Audio Conference
03 October 2018The use of Blockchain technology in the audio world will be explored by Cliff Fluet at the International Radio Festival’s Audio Conference in Malta on 1st November.
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Brinsley Dresden interviewed for BBC Radio 5 Live: Iceland's banned Christmas ad
15 November 2018Brinsley Dresden has taken part in an interview for BBC Radio 5 Live in which he discusses Clearcast's decision to refuse clearance for a Christmas TV commercial for Iceland.
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A milestone for R&D agreements?
06 July 2017R&D agreements can often cover commercially significant and highly technical subject areas. In Astex Therapeutics Limited v AstraZeneca AB [2017] EWHC 1442 (Ch) the court has had to decide on the interpretation of an R&D agreement and whether certain “collaboration compounds” were within the scope of the agreement, triggering milestone payments or not.
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Adam Glass quoted in The Global Legal Post: Private prosecutions can help luxury companies
19 May 2017Adam Glass has been quoted in an article by The Global Legal Post which comments on how private prosecutions can be helpful in the fight against counterfeiting, but must be used with caution.
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Diversity quotas in the law - the issues
10 November 2014Karen Baxter has been quoted in The Law Society Gazette in an article examining the issue of diversity quotas in the legal profession.
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Joanna Hunt comments for Lexis Nexis: 'Breakthrough' Brexit deal provides as many questions as answers
11 December 2017Joanna Hunt comments on the deal struck by the UK and EU, as well as the implications of the agreement, in an article for Lexis Nexis.
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To be(lly putt) or not to be(lly putt), that is the question
22 April 2013Alexander Milner-Smith and Richard Berry discuss the legality of belly putters in golf in light of Adam Scott’s victory in the Masters last weekend. The two ruling bodies of golf, the US Golf Association (USGA) in the USA and the Royal and Ancient (R&A) everywhere else, had already announced prior to last week’s tournament that they propose to ban players anchoring putters to their bodies from the beginning of 2016.
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E-cigarette brands prepare to emphasise quality message
14 June 2013In an article for Marketing Week, Lewis Silkin discusses how, from 2016, the current type of ads in the UK which arguably market e-cigarettes in a glamourised manner will cease to exist.
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European Medicines Agency produces Q&A document on impact of Brexit for MA holders
24 July 2017As the UK prepares to leave the EU, the holders of marketing authorisations for human or veterinary centrally approved need to ensure that that they take appropriate steps to ensure that they comply with the establishment requirements in the EU/EEA.
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Facebook forces Admiral to pull plan to price car insurance based on posts
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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Public goes nutellay crazy for AI design (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 5)
23 June 2017Nutella hit the headlines in February this year after using an algorithm to produce millions of unique labels in Italy. The jars flew off the shelves with customers keen to get their hands on a one-of-a kind jar. Each label design was completely unique with only the Nutella logo remaining the same.
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Bad leaver provisions enforceable as not penalties
03 August 2018In the recent case of Signia Wealth Limited v Vector Trustees Limited, the court held that the company’s bad leaver provisions (pursuant to which a leaving shareholder was compelled to sell their shares for less than their value) did not fall foul of the penalty doctrine and were therefore enforceable.
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Hong Kong protestors “in breach of data privacy law”
23 July 2019Revealing officials’ personal data in protest against the proposed “Extradition Bill” was a breach of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance.
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EU data protection proposals - implications for employment
07 February 2013Steven Lorber discusses the impact of the Data Protection Regulation for employers, and explains how EU lawmakers are ducking employment issues.