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Ambush Marketing and the Law: A look ahead to the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games 2024
24 January 2024The biggest sporting event of 2024 will undoubtedly be the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games held in Paris. As ever when it comes to big sporting events of this nature, we expect ambush marketing (where a brand piggybacks on an event to promote their products without an official association with that event) to be a key concern.
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Introduction of paid parental bereavement leave in Northern Ireland
08 February 2022On 7 January 2022 the Northern Ireland Assembly passed legislation which will provide parents with two weeks’ paid leave following the death of a child under 18. These new entitlements will be effective from April 2022 with further provision relating to miscarriage promised.
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Is Ireland the GDPR bottleneck paralysing enforcement in Europe?
22 September 2021In its recent report entitled “Europe’s Enforcement Paralysis” (Report), the ICCL looks at the overall enforcement capacity of European data protection authorities in cross-border cases. It paints a gloomy picture, highlighting several glaring issues
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Pakistan: Frontier challenges
27 January 2012Investors are constantly trying to identify the next country that will offer access to world-class, untapped, mining opportunities. Often this means operating in challenging conflict or post-conflict environments.
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Artwork at Arbor: Making My Own Map (for Nathalie) by Barby Asante
Barby is a Peckham-based artist whose work is concerned with the politics of place, space-memory and the histories and legacies of colonialism.
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International Overview
Whether you need advice on restructuring in Russia; outsourcing in Oman; or policies in Poland, our one-stop global employment, immigration and reward support is uniquely well placed to assist you.
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Employment law in China - an overview
04 January 2021China’s strong economy, large manufacturing base and burgeoning consumer market make it an irresistible place for many Western companies to do business. This in-brief provides a snapshot of some of the key aspects of Chinese employment law. Our Hong Kong office was opened to meet a growing demand from many of our clients for coordinated employment and immigration/global mobility support across the Asia Pacific region (including China).
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Employment law in Hong Kong - an overview
01 February 2021With its historical ties with the West and reputation as a “gateway” to Mainland China, it is not surprising that Hong Kong is already home for many Western companies and is top of the list for those wishing to expand into Asia Pacific. This in-brief provides an overview of employment law in Hong Kong.
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Digital Marketing and M&A – Is the heyday over?
23 May 2014Miro Parizek, Principal Partner of Hampleton M&A and corporate finance advisers, gives an overview from the joint Hampleton/Lewis Silkin Executive Briefing on technology M&A for digital marketing executives.
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Acquisitions, disposals and outsourcings
The M&A market has bounced back from the earlier challenges of the pandemic. Strategic investors are looking to expand or divest businesses that do not fit the ESG footprint.
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Outsourcing (BPO)
We think business guru Peter Drucker spoke a lot of sense in the early 1990s when he said “do what do you do best, and outsource the rest”. The concept remains true today.
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An industry caught out in a game of legal musical chairs
08 March 2016James Sweeting has been quoted in an article by The Times which discusses a change in copyright law which will eventually provide stronger legal protection for the rights-holders of popular, older designs and could signal an end to replica designer homeware. There is speculation that the implementation of this new law could be accelerated.
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Hotels: Checking out of hotels and into homes
01 September 2023The Department for Levelling Up in conjunction with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have published yet another consultation proposing changes to planning legislation, specifically amendments to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (“GPDO”).
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Our History
Lewis Silkin has a great history which we are extremely proud of, with the firm's beginnings starting from Lewis Silkin the man.
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Our guide to the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill – focusing on consumer law
21 July 2023The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill was introduced to the UK parliament on 25 April 2023, following a Green Paper back in 2018 and consultation by the government in 2021. The government said that one of the primary purposes of the Bill is to protect consumers by strengthening the enforcement of consumer protection law (including by giving the CMA significant new powers and the prospect of GDPR style fines) and introducing new consumer rights, including by tackling subscription traps that it says currently cost consumers £1.6 billion.
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Organising chaos: Creating electronic matter files
18 January 2013In an article written for Managing Partner, Jan DeCerce discusses how she created user-friendly electronic matter files at Lewis Silkin. Due to the sheer volume of information that the firm deals with every day, it was necessary for the firm to find a system that uses the familiarity of Microsoft Outlook and combine it with our document management system. The answer to this was BAInsight's TotalView for Legal.
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CSOP options – A new lease of life?
08 December 2022As part of the infamous Mini-Budget published on 23 September 2022, the then-Chancellor announced some surprise changes to HMRC’s rules around ‘CSOP option’ grants – and they’re some of the few changes announced in that rather ill-fated reform package still to be going ahead.
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Esports: Beyond the game – opportunities and challenges for brands
22 September 2020Join us for this webinar where we will look at the opportunities and challenges that esports present for brands, and their advertising and marketing agencies.
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Online monitoring
10 September 2013In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses whether looking up information posted on social media, such as LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, or performing a search on an internet search engine, can be used as a basis for rejecting a job candidate, infringe an employee's data protection rights; or permit an employer to dismiss an employee.
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Behind One Direction Fans
23 October 2015We have been quoted in an article on One Direction fans' backlash against the band's management, which is appearing in the upcoming edition of Billboard magazine and online.