This article assesses the key developments in 2025 and offers strategic insights for UK franchise systems to thrive in 2026 ...

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As the UK Government considers franchising regulation for 2026, this article explores potential legislative parameters, lessons from other jurisdictions, and practical steps for franchisors. It also ...

Why is this judgement significant? This CJEU judgement clarifies several important issues relevant not only to social media companies but to all controllers determining legal bases for processing ...

In a rather shocking decision, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined a company for having appointed its head of compliance, audit and risk as Data Protection Officer (DPO). According ...

In today’s increasingly diverse world, it is crucial to design pension schemes with inclusivity and fairness at their core. Pensions Inclusion is an initiative aimed at addressing the often-overlooked ...

Another year, another round of new privacy regulations. In 2023, a number of U.S. state privacy laws take effect and will impact many organisations doing business in ...

I am an international M&A/corporate lawyer working on corporate finance, private equity and capital market law. Most of the transactions I lead are cross-border and multi-jurisdictional. I am the ...

Data scraping is a general term that describes a plethora of Internet-based data retrieval methodologies, used without the permission of the data owner. Data scraping can be manual or automatic - ...

The European Commission recently released its second edition of the “Questions & Answers on the EU legislation on the introduction and the import of cultural goods (Regulation (EU) 2019/880)” (the ...

Ireland is in the midst of a dog crisis. In August 2023, the Department of Rural and Community Development released statistics for 2022 which showed that 7,352 dogs entered Irish pounds, a 77% ...

This article provides a brief overview of the surveillance regimes referred to by the CJEU in its decision. It does not address all of the surveillance activities carried out by the US government or ...