6/24/2026 3:31:48 PM CMA settles second drip pricing investigation with its direct enforcement toolkit By Tim Blanchard Steven Miller Following the announcement last week of a settlement with Marks Electrical, the CMA has now announced a settlement with StubHub UK for...
6/19/2026 11:33:04 AM CMA settles with Marks Electrical over investigation into pre-selected extra charges By Tim Blanchard Steven Miller The CMA has ordered appliances retailer Marks Electrical to refund around £600,000 to nearly 40,000 customers and pay a £720,000 fine for...
6/17/2026 12:26:10 PM A Look at the Annex 1 and 3 EU AI Act Guidelines on High-Risk Systems By Issy Spiro On 19 May 2026, the Commission published draft guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems. In our previous blog we provided...
6/17/2026 7:37:58 AM UK to ban social media for under-16s: A “line in the sand” By Catherine O'Callaghan Will Manley Laura Houston Bryony Bacon +1 more... Show less The UK Government has announced plans to ban social media platforms from offering services to children under 16. The announcement is one...
6/16/2026 11:24:45 AM Transparency of AI-Generated Content – EU Publishes Code of Practice By Lily Latimer Smith Laura Houston Will Manley Catherine O'Callaghan +1 more... Show less After consulting on two previous drafts in the last six months, the Commission published its Code of Practice on Transparency of...
6/10/2026 3:44:37 PM Who answers for AI? First UK claim filed against AI company over Grok deepfakes By Ross Francis-Pike Amelia Tai Labour MP Jess Asato has filed what is believed to be the first English law claim concerning non-consensual intimate deepfakes in the...
6/9/2026 9:20:44 AM European Commission Fines Temu €200 Million Under the DSA By Catherine O'Callaghan Laura Houston Will Manley Natalie Donovan +1 more... Show less The European Commission has issued a landmark €200 million fine against Temu for breaching the Digital Services Act (“DSA”). The...
6/8/2026 10:33:44 AM Privilege and AI hallucinations By Ross Francis-Pike Emily Thornton AI use by lawyers has hit the headlines recently, with a number of high profile judgments on this topic from courts in both the UK and...
6/2/2026 8:08:02 AM Protecting children online: UK regulators call for platforms to do more By Laura Houston Will Manley Bryony Bacon On 21 May, Ofcom published a statement and an update report on how major platforms are protecting children online in the UK. This latest...
5/27/2026 9:56:38 AM Guidelines on how to comply with high-risk AI finally published By Natalie Donovan Laura Houston On 19 May the Commission published draft guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems. With the Omnibus package promising...
5/20/2026 5:15:47 PM Outsourcing and the Employment Rights Act 2025: new risks, new constraints By Clare Fletcher The Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) represents the most far‑reaching reform of UK employment law in a generation. Much of the...
5/20/2026 4:18:30 PM UK government responds to House of Lords’ report on copyright and AI By Lily Latimer Smith On 15 May, the UK government published its response to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee’s (CDC) report on “AI,...
5/19/2026 5:05:40 PM AI-generated DSARs: learnings from ICO guidance on FOIA requests By Cindy Knott Individuals are increasingly turning to AI to help them generate and submit information requests, whether under the Freedom of...
5/14/2026 9:19:14 AM Unpacked: Patents Court determines FRAND terms for Samsung-ZTE global cross-licence By Richard Barker The English Patents Court has determined the terms of a global FRAND (Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory) cross-licence between...
5/11/2026 12:19:51 PM Time to spring clean your digital marketing? Updates from the ICO’s latest guidance and online tracking strategy By Bryony Bacon Cindy Knott Rebecca Cousin Digital marketing compliance continues to be an area of intense focus in the UK, EU and US, as we discuss in our must-read briefing,...
5/7/2026 4:36:50 PM EU Agree simplification of AI rules By Natalie Donovan The EU has today announced political agreement on changes to the AI Act (the Act) – just over a week later than originally planned, but...