Robert Eldon

Messaging platforms have rapidly become a leading form of communication between colleagues, clients and business contacts, but this has the potential to create significant risks for organisations.

Negative customer reviews are an unfortunate part of doing business for most companies. We are regularly asked to advise on dealing with disparaging, untrue (and sometimes malicious) customer reviews online, which can often have a very real impact on a business.

The Court of Appeal has this week handed down its decision in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 1416. This was effectively a test case which centred on whether or not unwilling parties can, in appropriate cases, be forced to engage in a "non-court based dispute resolution process".

Could the former King of Spain, living in Abu Dhabi, be sued in the Courts of England and Wales by a Danish international businesswoman who resides in Monaco and has a home in England?

This video is a recording of the first in our Data protection webinar series for in-house lawyers, DPOs and senior management in private and public sector organisations.

Many commercial contracts contain "force majeure" clauses which provide that, if certain events occur which are outside the parties’ reasonable control, a party who is unable to meet its contractual obligations will be excused from doing.

Following on from the recent decision in Lloyd -v- Google the High Court in Johnson -v- Eastlight Community Homes Ltd [2021] EWHC 3069 (QB) has dealt another blow to claimants and their lawyers, by holding that a low value data breach claim issued in the High Court was opportunistic and an abuse of process.

Supreme Court shuts down opt-out representative actions for data breach claims.

A local authority has been successful in obtaining a permanent injunction against an individual who had targeted employees and councillors in a longstanding campaign.