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Data Protection, Privacy & Reputation Management
We can help you to manage sensitive personal or business information and your relationships with those who hold your information.
We can help you take swift action to control misuse of your personal or business information and to put in place strategies to reduce the risk of harm where your reputation is at stake.
Examples of work include:
acting for a drinks company in relation to adverse comment on a television programme
acting for a market-intelligence company to maintain its right to legitimate comment
acting for a high-net-worth individual to ensure the deletion of Google links to inaccurate information
acting for a multinational food business in connection with the legal and PR issues deriving from a TV documentary
Tailored to your requirements, our GDPR Transition Service is designed to make compliance as painless as possible.
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The recently launched Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners legal directories have recognised Laytons LLP for a number of key services across London, Manchester and Guildford including Corporate & Commercial, Dispute Resolution, Commercial Property, Family and Property Litigation services.
Internet users cannot simply copy a photograph posted, without any restriction preventing it from being downloaded and posted with the copyright holder’s consent, on one website and republish it on another website.
It seems Dr Dre took a chronic dislike to the prospect of Dr Drai securing a registered trademark for his phonetically similar trading name on grounds that it would cause confusion.
Dulwich Hamlet Football Club is fighting a battle to continue to play football at its Champion Hill ground, but it cannot have expected to face a fight to use its 125-year-old name.
A team of 10 runners from Laytons LLP took on the challenge of Run the River, a major charity event that criss-crosses the Thames.
Toblerone has tempered Poundland’s launch of its rival “Twin Peaks” chocolate bar by threatening infringement action.
Resellers need to tread a careful line when using a brand owner’s marks. Use by an independent garage of BMW’s marks crossed the line between informative use (which is permitted) and misleading use (which is not).
In the latest round of the long running skirmish between confectionary giants Nestlé and Cadbury, Nestlé has lost its appeal to secure trade mark protection for the shape of its four-finger Kit Kat bar.
Hotel California, a small but apparently lovely Mexican hotel established in 1950, denies the Eagles’ “baseless” claims it infringes rights in the famous 1976 album and song of the same name.
Aggrieved rights holders' thoughts turn to sharply worded cease and desist notices aimed at stopping infringement or paving the way to court action. Rights holders need to take care before making threats.
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?