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02/06/2023
Modi­fic­a­tion of pub­lic con­tracts dur­ing their term
Pro­cur­ing au­thor­it­ies and sup­pli­ers fre­quently con­sider wheth­er changes to a con­tract awar­ded un­der the pro­cure­ment reg­u­la­tions can be ac­com­mod­ated, or al­tern­at­ively wheth­er they give rise to a new con­tract...
01/06/2023
The Gambling Re­view White Pa­per: Fin­an­cial Risk Checks (AKA af­ford­ab­il­ity...
One of the is­sues which promp­ted the most de­bate in the lead up to the White Pa­per has been the no­tion of ‘af­ford­ab­il­ity checks’ for on­line op­er­at­ors i.e. wheth­er – and the ex­tent to which – gambling...
01/06/2023
CJEU provides clar­ity on data pro­tec­tion: judg­ments on right to com­pens­a­tion...
CJEU judg­ment on right to com­pens­a­tion for non-ma­ter­i­al dam­age un­der GDPR (Case C-300/21)On 4 May 2023, the CJEU de­livered a judge­ment con­cern­ing the right to com­pens­a­tion fol­low­ing an in­fringe­ment of...
01/06/2023
CMS strengthens Fin­an­cial Ser­vices Reg­u­lat­ory Team with hire of Joy Dav­ey
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS is pleased to an­nounce that Joy Dav­ey has joined the Fin­an­cial Ser­vices Reg­u­lat­ory Team as a part­ner.  She will work along­side Part­ners Ash Sa­luja, An­gela Greenough and the...
31/05/2023
DCMS Se­lect Com­mit­tee pub­lishes writ­ten evid­ence on the draft Me­dia Bill
On 26th May 2023, the DCMS Se­lect Com­mit­tee (the “Com­mit­tee”) pub­lished the writ­ten evid­ence sub­mit­ted by in­dustry stake­hold­ers in re­sponse to the draft Me­dia Bill. As part of its pre-le­gis­lat­ive...
31/05/2023
UPC – the “Long-arm” jur­is­dic­tion
UPC Long-arm jur­is­dic­tion­With the UPC set to open its doors on 1 June 2023, just how far might its reach ex­tend?Un­less a European pat­ent has been op­ted out of the UPC, the na­tion­al courts and the UPC...
31/05/2023
CMS ad­vises ORB In­nov­a­tions on ac­quis­i­tion by Glidewell
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised Lon­don-based start-up ORB In­nov­a­tions on its ac­quis­i­tion by dent­al in­dustry lead­er Glidewell.Foun­ded in 2017, ORB In­nov­a­tions has de­veloped a unique health tech­no­logy...
30/05/2023
High Court re­jects CPR 19.8 class ac­tion, demon­strat­ing chal­lenges of mass...
On 19 May the Eng­lish High Court re­jec­ted an ‘opt-out’ class ac­tion brought on be­half of ap­prox­im­ately 1.6 mil­lion people in An­drew Pris­mall v (1) Google UK Lim­ited and (2) Deep­Mind Tech­no­lo­gies Lim­ited...
30/05/2023
Low dose as­bes­tos ex­pos­ure from the 1960s: when it is found to be enough
Judg­ment in the case of Ness v Caril­lion Cap­ita Pro­jects [2023] EWHC 1219 (KB) gave con­sid­er­a­tion to the state of know­ledge and fore­see­ab­il­ity of risk of in­jury in a case in­volving both an early peri­od...
30/05/2023
Air­craft re­de­liv­ery: the con­sequences of non-com­pli­ance
A re­cent Eng­lish Com­mer­cial Court case has con­firmed when amend­ments to a claim should be per­mit­ted, in the con­text of con­sid­er­ing the terms of a stand­ard air­craft op­er­at­ing lease re­lat­ing to the re­de­liv­ery...
30/05/2023
Gambling White Pa­per: On­line Pro­tec­tions – stake lim­its, design stand­ards,...
Ac­com­pa­ny­ing its pro­pos­als in re­spect of af­ford­ab­il­ity checks in the White Pa­per (on which we will shortly be pub­lish­ing a ded­ic­ated art­icle), the Gov­ern­ment has set out a raft of ad­di­tion­al “on­line...
30/05/2023
CMS ap­poin­ted to ad­vise De­part­ment for En­ergy Se­cur­ity and Net Zero
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has been awar­ded a three-year con­tract with the De­part­ment for En­ergy Se­cur­ity and Net Zero (DES­NZ), formerly the De­part­ment for Busi­ness, En­ergy & In­dus­tri­al Strategy, to provide...