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At Shepherd and Wedderburn we have been watching regulatory and political developments in the water sector closely. We think the regulatory framework has the potential to be in for big changes, and not in ways that many expected at the start of Ofwat’s Water 2020 programme. Water industry governance –
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According to its recent annual report on intellectual property rights protection, Alibaba has improved the processes for the takedown of infringing material and addressing counterfeit goods listed on the site. The three main messages from the report are: 95% of takedown requests were processed within 24 hours, a 68% reduction
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The European Commission has published the 2018 EU Justice Scoreboard which gives a comparative overview of the independence, quality and efficiency of justice systems in the EU Member States. Peter Drucker, a well known management guru, is often quoted as saying that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” In
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The European Union Intellectual Property Office has launched a brief video on the Enforcement Database. The short and simplistic video explains a complex issue. The storage of data on brands to help the enforcement authorities identify counterfeit goods.
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The Court of Appeal recently confirmed in the case of Gore v Naheed & Anor that a party who refuses to mediate will not automatically be penalised in costs because there is no general rule that refusal is automatically unreasonable. The facts The claimant, Mr Gore, was successful in his claim for damages and an
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Last month, the European Commission published the paper Towards an enhanced responsibility of online platforms concerning the fight against illegal online content. The Commission states that its aim is to “facilitate and intensify the implementation of good practices for preventing, detecting, removing and disabling access to illegal content”. It is hoped that
Continue readingShepherd and Wedderburn Partner Gordon Downie spoke at this year’s Scottish Public Law Group conference in Edinburgh on 19 June on the topic of ‘Brexit and Regulatory Governance’. Gordon’s presentation focussed on the implications of Brexit for the regulatory governance arrangements across various sectors of the UK economy which have
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This week’s revelation that the UK and EU have been contemplating a deal on the EU withdrawal that involves continuing ‘regulatory alignment’ on the island of Ireland raises an interesting and important question as regards the position of the UK electricity sector post-Brexit: is Irish/NI ‘regulatory alignment’ possible without broader
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