A letter from Carter-Ruck is something that every editor has learned to fear. As the potential precursor to a defamation action, the firm and its founding partner, Peter Carter-Ruck, became synonymous with libel thanks to their successful representation of numerous public figures – often prominent in business, politics, sport or entertainment.
In one of the set-piece debates at this year’s Enterprise GC, a high-level panel reflected on the realities of crisis viewed for the inside
When the safety of a product is called into question it can have far-reaching, significant and long-term effects on a brand. Giving prior due consideration to the potential risks faced by the company can be of substantial assistance in managing potential brand damage.
The In-House Lawyer teamed up with Invest Northern Ireland to gather managing partners, technologists and New Law figures to ask how to engineer the law firm of the future
Intellectual property has become more and more important over the last two decades. No longer the domain of tech companies only it is something that all businesses should be thinking about, and, according to recent studies, it can make up around 80% of capital value in successful businesses.
Mexico has been a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 18 May 1994 and, as most of its members, has embraced the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) actions outlined by said organisation in the context of the OECD/G20 BEPS Project. Mexico has also been an enthusiastic promoter of tax …
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In August 2018, the Taiwan Intellectual Property Court sided with the fashion industry in a copyright infringement lawsuit by holding that the overall style, colour, image and layout of the plaintiff’s designer handbags can reflect the author’s aesthetics and are works of art protected by copyright. This judgment substantially expanded the scope of copyright protection …
The E-commerce Law of the People’s Republic of China was implemented on 1 January 2019. As the first comprehensive legislation in the field of e-commerce in China and one of the first in the world, the legislation aims to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the parties in e-commerce business, regulate e-commerce behaviours and …
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How do you define a corporate crisis? According to Dan Tench, dispute resolution partner at CMS, this is where a business finds itself at the centre of a media storm in a way that overwhelms its management and its operations. ‘The defining characteristic of a crisis of this type is that the legal and operational …
The In-House Lawyer met with DLA leader Simon Levine as he settles into his second term to talk legacy, succession and remaking the firm post-Nigel
#MeToo blotted the risk landscape in 2018, as firms wrestled with the fallout in a year where the profession’s ethics were put under the spotlight
Compliance programmes are firmly back in the global spotlight when it comes to cartel enforcement in 2019. In Europe, the Italian competition authority recently published guidance outlining what it perceives to be the key elements of an effective antitrust compliance programme and formalising a process for granting a reduction in cartel fines where the right …
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