Publications

Partner Mark Owen attended a meeting held at the Houses of Parliament on 20 June 2011, where the UK government indicated that it intended to legislate if necessary to block harmful content online from being made available to children.

We look at how the huge growth in eCommerce has created conflict between rights-owners and online service providers reagrding the sale of counterfeit products.

It has been another unusual year, and although many clients continued to face difficult markets, an increasingly large proportion have been thriving. Has a corner been turned? We don't think so yet - but the signs are encouraging, and we have begun 2011 with great optimism.

Read the Annual Review of our work and achievements from 2010.

Ed Vaizey, a junior Minister in the UK Coalition Government, has been widely reported as saying that ISPs should be allowed to abandon net neutrality by allowing them to offer tiered levels of services to their customers. What in fact he said was rather different but still controversial.

Despite EU legislation being in place, e-money services are still slow to develop. Several directives, between 2000 and 2009, have attempted to give a clear framework to these types of services in order to reassure consumers and boost competition. However, Adam Mitton shows that there is still uncertainty regarding the definition and scope of some types of financial services.