The enhancement of e-commerce is one of the important policy issues within the European Union. This guide examines the laws covering e-commerce across multiple jurisdictions including the options to resolve disputes should they arise. 

If you discover that your business has fallen victim to a payment scam, it is essential you act quickly.  We provide guidance on immediate practical steps to take and summarise the main options for legal action to try to recover misappropriated funds.

Payment scams are on the increase. They are big business for fraudsters and businesses of all shapes and sizes are being targeted. All businesses need to be alert to the risks and to ensure staff receive training to combat these convincing scams.

Judgment was handed down in the important case of Various Claimants v Wm Morrison Supermarket Plc (2017) concerning criminal misuse of data by an employee, a timely case given the upcoming enforcement date of the GDPR, under which the frequency of employee group actions is expected to increase.

The new data protection rules will apply from 25 May 2018. This briefing examines the key changes and highlights actions to take.

We summarise the key direct marketing rules that apply in the UK together with the practical steps that organisations can take to comply with them.

Evolving case law from the CJEU confirms that links to copyright works which are freely accessible on the internet do not infringe copyright...

On 12 July 2016, the European Commission deemed the Privacy Shield Framework adequate to enable data transfers between the European Union and the United States in support of transatlantic commerce.

On 27 April 2016, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was adopted. The GDPR’s changes to EU data protection rules will apply to all EU Member States from 25 May 2018.

In this briefing we tackle one of the biggest and most uncertain of all Brexit topics: what will happen to our laws after we leave?