Legal and commercial insights from the experts at Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP
In the deal-making environment, dispute resolution clauses are often neglected. The parties, understandably, devote most of their attention to the substance of the deal – who will do what, when and for how much – rather than planning for how disputes will be resolved if the deal goes wrong. Nonetheless,
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As Brits bemoan higher prices for French wines, it emerges that the higher prices may be due to more than the sterling exchange rate following the Brexit vote. The French Competition Authority decision published on 23 May 2018 reveals that the price increases may also been caused by a price-fixing
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Over in the business water retail market, in March this year Ofwat made refinements to the process for applying for a self-supply licence. For those unaware, self-supply is a licensing option, typically for larger water customers, where they ‘become their own retailer’. Customers engage in the wholesale water market directly
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In a series of short articles, our guest author economist Eben Wilson (St Andrews) explores how emerging law and regulations that apply to how data is used can be integrated with economic principle to ensure both the protection of individuals and commercial advantage. The Value of Data The extent
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New intermediary or ‘broker’ models are emerging in regulated markets in response to new opportunities created by disruptive technology, but what is the right regulatory response to this new phenomenon? The conventional retail business models seen in many regulated sectors – from banking, through telecoms to energy – face the
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Prevention is better than cure. This old adage is particularly true when it comes to misuse of confidential information. There often isn’t a complete cure when information is taken and the victim is left looking back with the benefit of hindsight thinking that the risk was obvious (and avoidable). Asking the following
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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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