Wes Walker and Freya Ollerearnshaw look at how injunctions can be helpful in response to a cyber attack Picture this: you’re an executive facing a nightmare cyber-attack scenario. An email has just hit your inbox from an unknown perpetrator claiming to have hacked your systems and stolen data. They are demanding a ransom: if you…
The Clorox Company (Clorox) recently filed a $380 million lawsuit against Cognizant, its IT services provider. In this article, Ngaire Guzzetti, discusses the importance of contract due diligence, continual testing of controls and the growing threat that is supply chain risk. The 2023 Breach and the 2025 Lawsuit Manufacturer The Clorox Company (Clorox) recently filed a…
Camilo Artiga-Purcell flags up some of the cybersecurity, data protection and privilege risks associated with client-intake forms. Solicitors and barristers across England and Wales have embraced digital transformation, adopting sophisticated case management systems, e-discovery platforms, and document automation tools. Yet many overlook a critical vulnerability: the web forms used to collect confidential client and prospective…
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Methods for delay analysis were largely developed for construction projects. That was fine for IT under waterfall delivery, but the strain is starting to show as agile and other iterative methods dominate. William Hooper asks, what are the implications for your clients’ projects? This article designed for IT lawyers is an abbreviated form of the…
UK law Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025 receives Royal Assent The Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 2 December 2025. The Law Commission had carried out a study and concluded that certain digital assets, including crypto-tokens and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), can be regarded as “property” and should be recognised and protected…
The European Court of Justice recently issued its judgment in Case C-34/24 | Stichting. It concerned a dispute about whether Dutch courts could hear a legal action against Apple. The case focused on whether Apple’s App Store and whether Apple’s behaviour in running the App Store for the Netherlands market was anti-competitive. Apple’s iPhones and…
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UK Law ICO consults on enforcement procedural guidance The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is consulting on draft enforcement procedural guidance. It explains when and how the ICO opens investigations, uses its information gathering powers, how enforcement decisions are made and how settlement with reduced fines may be appropriate. The consultation ends on 23 January 2026….
The High Court has issued its eagerly awaited judgment (which was around 200 pages long) in Getty Images -v- Stability AI [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch). The judgment addresses complex questions at the intersection of intellectual property law and generative AI. Getty Images brought claims against Stability AI for trade mark infringement, passing off, and copyright…
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UK law Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) (Amendment) (No 2) Regulations 2025 laid The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has laid the draft Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) (Amendment) (No 2) Regulations 2024 in parliament under sections 2(6), 6(4) and 77(5)…
The Upper Tribunal (UT) has handed down its judgment in the UK Information Commissioner’s appeal against the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) decision on Clearview AI Inc. In May 2022, the Information Commissioner fined US-based company Clearview £7.5m and issued an enforcement notice for scraping images of UK residents from the web and social media, and then…
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