Vol. 8, No. 31, Spring 2015

This article examines how joint property is legally held by participants in an upstream oil and gas joint venture. Using the examples of English law and Kazakh law, it makes...Read more

Put shortly, metadata is “data about data”. Unfortunately, that definition tends to invite more questions than it may answer. The question of what constitutes metadata and how it is retained...Read more

Effective information management and security remains one of the most important aspects of every business entity. It is interesting to notice that if you “Google” the words “Data Leakage” more...Read more

We are currently experiencing a ‘Big Data revolution’. Technology and smart devices are enabling us to create, store, share, and use data in ways previously never imagined. At the same...Read more

We are currently experiencing a ‘Big Data revolution’. Technology and smart devices are enabling us to create, store, share, and use data in ways previously never imagined. At the same...Read more

Insurance law in the UK has been modernised by the recent consumer and commercial insurance law reforms set out in the Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012 (“CIDRA”) and...Read more

Legislation on the protection of banking information (banking secrecy) was established in Albania in early 1990. The rationale behind this legal framework was motivated by economic factors, i.e. the flow...Read more

On July 24, 2013, the European Commission (“the Commission”) issued a legislative proposal to update the existing Payments Services Directive (“PSD I”), which has been in force since 2007. The...Read more

Contemporary governance, risk and compliance (GRC) principles advocate the shift from a silo approach to managing governance, risk and compliance to better rationalize the direct relationship between a particular risk,...Read more

Collective redundancies in Spain continue to be conflictual situations both legally and practically as always, but they have now also become a most challenging legal environment. Before the major changes...Read more

Presently, Portugal is one of the countries where several multinational companies have decided to base their pooled, back-office or shared services. Natural, cultural and economic reasons are behind such decisions,...Read more

There have been significant changes to brand protection considerations since Bass registered the UK’s first trade mark in 1876. Companies that once survived on a loyal local customer base now...Read more

Financial organisations have a far wider reach in today's business environment as the scale and scope of their customer base expands beyond local and regional borders. Accordingly in-house lawyers, as...Read more

The United States (US) Congress passed the America Invents Act (AIA) in 2011, enacting the broadest changes in US patent law in over six decades. The US Supreme Court has...Read more

Misleading advertising by a brand's competitors can take many forms. When it uses the 'target' brand's trade marks, and therefore falls within the narrow definition of explicit comparative advertising and...Read more

Under EU competition law, there is a presumption that a parent company with a 100% shareholding in its subsidiary company exercises decisive influence. The European Commission has the power to...Read more

As University Libraries transform their role from passive data collection to a more active exploration and exploitation of information, they face a serious challenge: how can they handle a massive...Read more

India was an emerging market in the mid to late 1990’s and an unchartered destination for international fashion brands. Brands that hitherto could be purchased only on the occasional foreign...Read more

I will start with a bold statement; I think the law is one of the most fantastic, wondrous achievements in the history of human civilization! Even lawyers often don’t recognize...Read more