Contentious Business Update
April 2024
Contentious Business Update April 2024
Welcome to our Contentious Business Update where we focus on some topical and interesting legal issues affecting businesses. We hope you find this edition informative and insightful.
A recent high court decision in the Media and Communications List of the High Court is considered - Farley -v- Equiniti [2024] EWHC 383 (KB) – involving an application to strike out claims under the GDPR/Data Protection Act 2018. The application was successful in the main with only a small number of claims permitted to proceed and those claims were transferred to the small claims track in the County Court. A “must read” for anyone interested in data breaches. Read more.
We consider the government’s proposals to regulate AI generated works and the move away from a voluntary code of conduct to a more regulated approach. Read more.
We look at a recent decision - Topalsson GMBH -v- Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd [2024] EWHC 297 (TCC) which highlights the risks to directors funding and controlling litigation from applications for non-party costs orders, with disclosure of information relating to the funding of the proceedings being a possibility. Read more.
We consider the recent Supreme Court judgment in Armstead -v- Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Company Limited (2024) UKSC 6 which clarified important principles relating to pure economic loss, remoteness of damage and the burden of proof in recovering contractual losses. Read more.
We consider changes to the FRC regime aimed at permitting contracting out. Read more.