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Geraint Lloyd-Taylor features in Media & Marketing Podcast for Mediatel Newsline: Tech, tax and Brexit
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05 July 2019In The Media and Marketing Podcast for Mediatel Newsline, host John Reynolds speaks with Russ Shaw, co-founder of Tech London Advocates, and Geraint Lloyd-Taylor. Between them they discuss the impact of Brexit on the tech and advertising industries; London Tech Week; the problem of tax; and the virtues and downsides to the government's 'online harms' white paper.
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Gender equality “roadmap” published
04 July 2019The Government Equalities Office has published a gender equality roadmap, which sets out proposed actions to tackle persistent gendered inequalities. This includes a number of potential changes to employment law.
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Intellectual Asset Management, Intellectual Property Magazine, The Law Society Gazette, The Lawyer, World Trademark Review & World Intellectual Property Review report on our recent acquisition - Law firm’s patent attorney deal shows changing face of IP
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04 July 2019Intellectual Asset Management, Intellectual Property Magazine, The Law Society Gazette, The Lawyer, World Trademark Review & World Intellectual Property Review have all written articles reporting on our recent acquisition of patent and trademark attorney firm Ablett and Stebbing.
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Unreasonable non-compete clause could be rescued by severance
03 July 2019The Supreme Court (“SC”) has given a landmark judgment about the limits of post-termination restrictions (“PTRs”) in employment contracts. It ruled that although a six-month non-compete clause went too far by restricting an employee from holding a minority shareholding in a competing business, the employer could still enforce the key part of the clause.
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Contract interpretation: a helpful recap by the Court of Appeal
03 July 2019At the end of March 2019, the Court of Appeal handed down a decision which provided a helpful reminder of the modern approach to interpreting contracts.
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The key clauses that every representation contract should contain
03 July 2019With the transfer window now in full swing and intermediaries busy brokering deals on behalf of both players and clubs, it is an important time for intermediaries, as well as players and clubs, to ensure that the terms of their representation contracts sufficiently protect their interests.
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Michael Anderson comments for The Financial Times, The Law Society Gazette & Staffing Industry Analysts: ‘Victory for employers’ as Supreme Court rules in landmark competition case
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03 July 2019Michael Anderson has commented in an articles for The Financial Times, The Law Society Gazette and Staffing Industry Analysts. In all three articles he discusses the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a non-compete restriction today in the first employment competition case to have reached the court and its predecessor in over a century.
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Naomi Hanrahan-Soar and Kathryn Denyer write for LexisNexis: An update on the start-up and innovator endorsing bodies
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03 July 2019Naomi Hanrahan-Soar and Kathryn Denyer provide an update for LexisNexis on the start-up and innovator visa endorsing bodies, and whether they are in a position to endorse.
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The inexorable rise of video advertising
02 July 2019London Tech Week this year highlighted many fascinating tech trends. One particular trend that resonated with me is the inexorable rise of video advertising. Here are a few takeaways from the video advertising session hosted by Taptica.
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Leadership changes at Lewis Silkin with appointment of Joint Managing Partners
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01 July 2019CEO Ian Jeffery is to step down in Autumn 2019.
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Ads & Brands Law Digest: July 2019
01 July 2019Welcome to the July 2019 issue of our monthly Ads & Brands Law Digest.
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Media & Entertainment Legal Digest: May - June 2019
01 July 2019Welcome to the latest issue of our ‘Media & Entertainment Legal Digest’. We have selected the legal and regulatory developments from the past two months or so that we think are most likely to be of interest, with a very brief summary and then a link to the official source or full text of the item.
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Lewis Silkin acquires Ablett & Stebbing to create full-service IP Practice
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01 July 2019Creation of specialist patent offering at firm with the addition of three new partners
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Thirteen lawyers listed in Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom
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28 June 2019Lewis Silkin is pleased to announce that thirteen of our lawyers have been listed in the Eighth Edition of The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom.
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Jurisdiction Challenges
28 June 2019We have updated our Guide to Jurisdiction Challenges, particularly in light of Brexit developments. In the guide, we provide an overview of how to challenge the jurisdiction of the English courts if a claim is started here. Next we consider what to do if proceedings are brought in a foreign court in breach of a jurisdiction clause in favour of the English courts, or in breach of an arbitration clause. Finally, we consider the impact of Brexit – deal or no deal – as the situation currently stands.
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Discrimination because of a perceived disability is unlawful confirms Court of Appeal
26 June 2019The Court of Appeal has found that it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because of a mistaken perception that they have a progressive condition which would make them unable to perform the full functions of the role in future.
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Cliff Fluet comments for Managing IP: UKIPO looks to AI to fight “disastrous and archaic” rights
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26 June 2019Cliff Fluet has commented in an article for Managing IP which discusses UKIPO's statement that 'Improved awareness of high quality data, together with greater use of AI and emerging tech, is likely to increase value for IP owners'.
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The Law, the ‘Outlaws’ and Ad Tech’s O.K. Corral
26 June 2019Programmatic advertising is often likened by commentators to the Wild West: some because they consider it to be a lawless place where anything goes; others because it pushes boundaries and is creating a new frontier. Wherever you stand on that metaphor, ad tech is looking like it’s about to have its own ‘Gunfight at the O.K. Corral’ moment – a shootout in the EU prompted by a long-simmering feud between privacy’s ‘lawmen’ and the advertising industry’s ‘outlaws’ finally boiling over.
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Irish employment law
Inbrief
25 June 2019This Inbrief provides a whistle-stop tour of the most important Irish employment law issues, from the beginning of the employment relationship through to its conclusion.
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Joanna Hunt writes for FreeMovement: Why can’t politicians get over the idea of an Australian-style immigration system?
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24 June 2019In an article for freemovement, Joanna Hunt asks, why can’t politicians get over the idea of an Australian-style immigration system?