The editorial in the latest Law Society Gazette which is principally about “Wagatha Christie” mentions SLAPPs. I keep seeing this acronym without really know what it is. Apparently it stands for Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation. This is when the …
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Who owns LinkedIn connections? The Employer or the employee?
The High Court in Clayton Recruitment Ltd v Wilson & Anor [2022] recently considered who owned LinkedIn connections as part of a costs application. James Wilson (the Defendant) had been employed by a legal recruitment agency for several years and …
Read MoreDispute Resolution Clauses – Can you ignore them?
Dispute resolution clauses appear in most contracts you will see. They are not always the same, but they matter. In general terms, the clauses require the parties to a contract to exhaust various alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures (like mediation …
Read MoreRecommendations, reviews and changes in the law
As solicitors, we often get asked to recommend other solicitors. This week it has been “do you know any good planning solicitors” and “I have a friend who is getting divorced, do you know any good lawyers?” We are a …
Read MoreEd Sheeran Litigation and Legal Influencers
A couple of interesting bits of legal news. Ed Sheeran’s copyright dispute has been widely reported, but for the actual detail the judgment is worth a read. And we also came across this story of young lawyers acting as “lawfluencers“. …
Read MoreTulip Trading and the Tale of the Missing Bitcoin Billions
There are times when you read a High Court judgment that you think you just couldn’t make this stuff up. Mrs Justice Falk’s decision on Tulip Trading is definitely one of those. The claim relates to a very substantial amount …
Read MoreResolving Future Disputes in a Digital Age
There are loads of interesting ideas in this lecture given to the Society for Computers and Law by Sir Geoffrey Voss, who we seem to be reporting on a lot. It’s even got a decent joke in it. He does …
Read MoreFines for Royal Mail and London criminal solicitors following data breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued two monetary penalty notices, one against the Royal Mail Group Ltd and one against Tuckers Solicitors LLP. The Royal Mail sent out 215,000 emails to customers who had “expressed a desire to no longer …
Read MoreLegal tech developments and smarter contracts
There’s an interesting speech by Sir Geoffrey Vos (Master of the Rolls) which he gave recently at the launch of LawtechUK’s Smarter Contracts report. It’s all part of Lawtech UK’s necessary drive to counter the idea that blockchain and associated …
Read MoreA business that is “passionate” about removing “conflict and acrimony” sues a software developer and loses
A software development project that went badly wrong has found its way to the courts. It gives us both an insight into how these things go wrong and how best (or not) to deal with a dispute when things don’t …
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