Swan Turton LLP | United Kingdom | 18 Feb 2015
The Court of Appeal has upheld a ban on Topshop selling a sleeveless t-shirt bearing the image of the singer Rihanna that had been produced without…
Swan Turton LLP | United Kingdom | 18 Feb 2015
In what is believed to be the first Employment Appeal Tribunal decision involving Twitter, the EAT has held that an Employment Tribunal failed to…
Swan Turton LLP | United Kingdom | 2 Feb 2015
Photographic competitions have become increasingly popular in recent years thanks to the boom in digital photography and the ease with which…
Swan Turton LLP | United Kingdom | 14 Jan 2015
In Burry & Knight Limited & Another v Knight, the Court of Appeal considered, for the first time, the refusal of a shareholder's request for access…
Swan Turton LLP | United Kingdom | 14 Jan 2015
The Modern Slavery Bill was introduced in June 2014 and is the first of its kind in Europe. The Government's aim is to bring together, in a single…
Swan Turton LLP | United Kingdom | 10 Sep 2014
In Cooke v MGN Ltd, the High Court addressed for the first time the new "serious harm" threshold test in section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013. The…
Swan Turton LLP | United Kingdom | 12 Aug 2014
A new General Data Protection Regulation was proposed by the European Commission in January 2012, covering such things as: mandatory breach…
Swan Turton LLP | United Kingdom | 5 Aug 2014
In Prophet plc v Huggett, the Court of Appeal held that a poorly drafted restrictive covenant which offered the employer no protection should not be…
Swan Turton LLP | United Kingdom | 9 Jul 2014
In Li v First Marine Solutions and another, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that a clause in an employment contract entitling an employer…
Swan Turton LLP | United Kingdom | 4 Jul 2014
Brian Wade and Geraldine Perry devised an idea for a primetime music talent show, to be called The Real Deal, featuring artists who write and perform…