Author: Dr Peter Coe

On the 16th of February Impress, the Press Recognition Panel approved regulator of the UK press, launched its new Standards Code and Guidance (the new Code and Guidance will come into force on the 1st of April 2023). As a member of the Impress Code Committee I was involved in the review process and in drafting the revised Code. In this post I explain some of the reasons behind the new Code, and some of the key changes.

Journalism has changed. One of the great things about the internet is that it has opened up journalism

Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On Tuesday 28th February 2023the Court will hear the case of JTI POLSKA Sp. Zoo and others v Jakubowski and otherson appeal from [2021] EWHC 1465. The case concerns whether the Supreme Court should depart from the judgment of the House of Lords in Buchanan (under the Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent) [1966] 1 WLR 1234) and hold that excise duty payable in respect of goods which are stolen in the course of international carriage by road cannot be claimed under Article 23(4) of the CMR

The daughter of former NBA star Dwyane Wade has finalized her legal transition after a Los Angeles judge granted her petition to legally change her name and update her gender marker on identification documents.

The 15-year-old, who came out as trans at the age of 12, has been using the name Zaya since 2020.

Her legal name is now Zaya Malachi Airamis Wade, according to a ruling filed Friday in Los Angeles and reviewed by People.

Dwyane Wade has been a vocal supporter of his young trans daughter ever since she told him and his wife, Hollywood star Gabrielle Union,

MONTAGUE, Texas — A judge ruled to temporarily suspend Clay County Sheriff Jeffrey Lyde from his official duties after a hearing Thursday for a petition to oust him from the elected office.

The judge did not designate an interim sheriff Thursday. Lyde’s suspension will not take effect until the judge appoints an interim sheriff and that person posts a bond.

Senior Justice Lee Gabriel requested both sides to send lists of potential candidates. She opted not to go with the

In this post, Lisa Fox, a senior associate in the litigation team at CMS, previews the decision awaited from the Supreme Court in London Borough of Merton v Nuffield Health Ltd.

Factual Background

Nuffield Health acquired Merton Abbey (the “Premises”) on August 1, 2016, when it bought the business of Virgin Active. It applied to the London Borough of Merton (“Merton”) for mandatory and discretionary rate relief. The application for mandatory relief was initially granted (representing 80% of the rates otherwise payable). However, following a visit by Council officers in November 2016, Merton withdrew the relief on the basis that

Yet, when the teams met again Tuesday night in Hartford, it was an opposite scene.

The No. 4-ranked Huskies fell 69-64 to St. John’s thanks to a season-low 35.5 field goal percentage. Fudd was back on the bench dressed in street clothes, coming out indefinitely after reinjuring his knee. St.

On appeal from: [2021] EWCA Civ 91

Under the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (the “VAT Act“), “newspapers” are “zero-rated”, meaning Value Added Tax (“VAT“) is not charged on them. The question in this case is whether, between 30 August 2010 – 4 December 2016 (the “relevant period“), zero-rating extended beyond print newspapers to digital editions of newspapers, such as editions for e-readers, tablets, smartphones and websites.

News Corp UK & Ireland Ltd (“News Corp“) is the publisher of The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and The Sun on Sunday.

In this post, Rachel Free (Partner), Toby Sears (Partner) and Omri Shirion (Associate) of the CMS Intellectual Property team, preview the UK Supreme Court’s upcoming hearing of Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks. This case concerns the treatment under the Patents Act 1977 (the “1977 Act”) of inventions created by artificial intelligence (“AI”) machines in the absence of a human inventor.

The Appellant, Dr Stephen Thaler, previously appealed a decision of the UK Intellectual Property Office (“UKIPO”) that two UK patent applications should be deemed withdrawn because they named an AI machine, ‘DABUS,’ as the inventor.