Organisations in the UAE prepare for new Healthcare IT Law
We explore the UAE’s impending Healthcare IT Law – the first federal law to address privacy issues within the context of data processing in the UAE (albeit limited to the healthcare sector) – which...
View ArticleIrish Data Protection Commission publishes first annual report since GDPR
We examine the Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s first annual report since the introduction of GDPR on 25 May 2018, which notes an uptick in complaints and breach reports due to ‘the GDPR Effect’...
View ArticleGreater EU Competition Enforcement needed in the Digital Era
As we have recently reported, a number of competition authorities and governments are in the process of assessing whether their competition enforcement tools are fit for the digital economy. In the...
View ArticleApr 2019 - ESAPA Client eNewsletter
Australia Contributed by Thomson GeerBy David Gaszner, Partner, Litigation and Dispute Resolution; Dr Ross Garland, Special Counsel, Litigation and Dispute ResolutionL...
View ArticleThe Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendment) Regulations 2018
We consider the impact of the recently passed Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendment) Regulations 2018, which empowered the ICO to issue fines of up to £500,000 to directors and other...
View ArticleCourt action: a strategic option for data security breach response a UK...
We consider various options offered by UK Courts which can help companies take action against the perpetrators of cyber attacks, including: orders restraining the threatened publication of stolen...
View ArticleThe implementation of the GDPR in Romania
We report on Romania’s recently introduced data protection law, focussing on the provisions relating to the processing of national identification numbers and the rules on the use of CCTV and...
View ArticleNew Directive on Sales Contracts for Digital Content and Goods
Background On 15th April 2019 the Council of the European Union adopted two new directives on Sale Contracts for Goods and Digital Content. One directive relates to the supply of digital content and...
View ArticleCourt action: a strategic option for data security breach response a UK...
How an organisation responds to a cyber attack can define how it is seen by its current and future customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders. Separate to the regulatory response,...
View ArticleRussian e-services rules
Andrey Grachev, head of tax practice in Russia discusses the new VAT rules for e-services for companies doing business in Russia. This article was published in Taxation magazine, 11 April 2018, and is...
View ArticleDigital tax is a long time coming in Germany
Munich Tax Partner Stefan Diemer has authored an article in financial newspaper Börsen-Zeitung, about digital tax plans in Europe. A number of European countries have put forward national digital tax...
View ArticleDeposit of the ratification instrument of the Multilateral Instrument with...
On 9 April 2019, Luxembourg filed with the OECD its ratification instrument with respect to the list of reservations and notifications made on the Multilateral Instrument (“MLI”). Such deposit is the...
View ArticleHong Kong Court Continues Anti-suit Injunction to Restrain PRC Proceedings
In Giorgio Armani SpA v Elan Clothes Co Ltd [2019] HKCFI 530, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance (the “Court”) upheld the continuation of an anti-suit injunction against a PRC company which had...
View ArticleHong Kong Court Refuses Leave to Appeal on Question of Law and Clarifies the...
In Buda Pipe Rehab Eng Co Ltd v CPC Construction Hong Kong Ltd [2019] HKCFI 503, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance (the “Court”) continued its pro-arbitration approach and held that failure to...
View ArticleHong Kong Court Finds Enforcement of Arbitration Award Barred by Section...
In CL v SCG [2019] HKCFI 398, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance (the “Court”) clarified that the limitation period for the enforcement of an arbitration award begins to run following the expiry of...
View ArticleInvestor's Legal Brief, March 2019
1. Amendment of the Law on CompetitionAmendments of the Law on Competition have been adopted by Parliament under which the scope of Competition Council procedural rights and list of procedural...
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