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High Court places impact of Brexit on trade mark infringement on “advance track”
The High Court has recently considered trade mark infringement through the use of a competitor’s mark as a Google keyword and in related internet advertising. The case itself was relatively straightforward on the facts, with the court finding that both th...
And what about Brexit?
During a debate on the Spring Finance Bill, Gareth Davies, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, emphasised the UK government’s intention to take “full advantage of the opportunities arising from the UK’s exit from the European Union”, and to “make the mos...
Some reflections (and concerns) over the ‘Brexit Freedoms Bill’
As the legal, business and political communities continue to consider the implications and likely outcomes of the UK’s government’s proposal for a so-called ‘Brexit Freedoms Bill’ (and associated policy paper on ‘The benefits of Brexit’), a few reflection...
Brexit carries on: the EU and UK are reforming their securitisation regulations separately
The truism “Brexit is a process rather than an event” holds good for securitisers. More than five years ago, the referendum made huge political headlines but it did not change the law. Instead, the expiry of the Brexit implementation period at the end of ...
UK announces post-Brexit trade deal with Australia
On 15 June 2021, Boris Johnson announced that the UK had agreed the broad terms of a free trade deal with Australia following a meeting with the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, with an “Agreement in Principle” expected to be published in the co...
UK to capitalise on post Brexit independence in new data strategy
Last week was a busy one in the world of data - the UK Government published its response to the National Data Strategy consultation, and laid the ICO’s Data Sharing Code of Practice before Parliament. In relation to the strategy response, the Government c...
Looking beyond Brexit
The UK/EU deal After much uncertainty throughout the Brexit transition period that any UK/EU deal was going to be possible, the Trade and Co-operation Agreement was finally reached at the last minute on 24 December 2020. As widely anticipated, agreement ...
GDPR extra-territoriality in a post-Brexit world
As UK and EU businesses grapple with the complexities of the post-Brexit world, one of the first key questions for businesses from a data privacy perspective is whether their processing is subject to the UK or EU regime (or both). We discuss in our briefi...
Brexit has happened, so what's next for securitisations?
The UK left the EU single market at 11:00 pm (London time) on 31 December 2020. The Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the UK and the EU that has applied since then does not deal with the regulatory detail of cross-border financing transactions. In o...
The Penrose Report: A roadmap for the UK’s post-Brexit competition and consumer law regime?
Today, Conservative MP John Penrose published his independent report into how the UK can enhance its competition regime now that the Brexit transition period has ended. The report also considers how competition policy can support the economic recovery fr...