INTRODUCTION
On 1 July 2021, new defamation laws came into effect which enacted the Model Defamation Amendment Provisions 2020 (“MDAPs” – for more information on the MDAPs, click here).
One of the amendments introduced was a new ‘serious harm’…

Introduction
In September 2021, the High Court in Fairfax Media Publications v Voller [2021] HCA 27 (Voller) determined that the owners of public Facebook pages were the publishers of defamatory comments made by third parties on those pages, from the…

Although most of the amendments introduced in the field of intellectual property (Book Four of the Royal Decree-Law) came into force on 4 November, the legal text must be immediately submitted to the Spanish Congress for its debate and voting.…

Following on from our article earlier this month, this podcast explores an important development for anyone operating in the advertising space, the UK’s Green Claims Code. The Code sets out the six guiding principles any businesses who make environmental claims…

Following consultation with stakeholders, the UK CMA published a Green Claims Code (the “Code”) and accompanying guidance (the “Guidance”) on 20 September. The Code is aimed at businesses making sustainability claims when selling or promoting goods and services. Nowadays, this…

Part 1 of the conversation between Andrew Cooke, General Counsel at Fnatic, and Bird & Bird’s Will Deller was released last Friday – you can listen to it here.
Part 2 is now available – listen here for further…