8/26/2025 12:05:13 PM From Chat to Contract: WhatsApp Deal Upheld by High Court By Peter Hopton In Jaevee Homes Ltd v Fincham [2025] EWHC 942 (TCC), the High Court held that a legally binding construction contract was formed via...
6/25/2025 4:28:35 PM Unlocking New Privacy Standards: Higher Fines for Direct Marketing and Cookie Breaches By Robert Lands On 19 June 2025, the Data (Use and Access) Act (DUA Act) officially received Royal Assent, marking a significant milestone in the UK's...
7/17/2020 12:00:00 AM Privacy Shield fails. Are your transfers of personal data now unlawful? By Robert Lands On 16th July 2020 the Court of Justice of the EU delivered its judgment in the "Schrems II" case, so called as this was the second major...
12/4/2019 12:00:00 AM Despite appearances, this one isn't a scam. By Robert Lands For years we have been warning clients who register trade marks that they might receive a letter out of the blue from an official...
10/14/2019 11:48:34 AM Data Protection in a No Deal Brexit By Robert Lands With the end of October looming we are in the unusual position of not knowing exactly what the law will be next month. Will it be...
1/14/2019 12:00:00 AM GDPR Ransom Attacks By Robert Lands IT Pro Portal contemplates whether 2019 will be the "Year of the GDPR bounty hunters". They suggest that hackers might seek out...
9/4/2018 12:00:00 AM Your Apple App Store app will need a privacy policy. So here are some tips. By Robert Lands If shouldn't be much of a surprise that apps which collect personal data need their own GDPR Privacy Notice (aka a privacy policy). That...
7/17/2018 12:00:00 AM Japan gets the decision that post Brexit Britain needs By Robert Lands The EU and Japan today announced a new trade deal which has triggered plenty of commentary about cars and cows (the EU apparently exports...
4/4/2017 12:00:00 AM Brexit or not, you can't hide from the GDPR By Robert Lands According to the worrying story below, nearly a quarter of UK businesses have given up preparing for the General Data Protection...
8/12/2016 5:18:14 PM More boxes to tick (possibly quite literally) By Robert Lands Data protection is big news right now. There's been plenty of media coverage over the new EU/US Privacy Shield and numerous column inches...
6/14/2016 12:00:00 AM Brexit or not, the GDPR is coming our way. By Robert Lands My colleagues at Howard Kennedy (@howardkennedy_ ) and I presented a breakfast seminar this morning on the new EU General Data Protection...
2/5/2016 2:25:26 PM Shields Up! By Robert Lands Since the death of Safe Harbor last year, the European Commission and the US have been negotiating the so-called "Son of Safe Harbor",...