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April 18, 2018
Simkins LLP is proud to announce that it is an official partner of ReBalance: a programme developed by Festival Republic and the PRS Foundation to address gender imbalance within the music industry. To see the full press release, and read about how Commercial group Associate, Jessie Merwood, will be supporting the ReBalance candidates, please click… Read more »
April 17, 2018
At the suggestion of the court, witness statements from these proceedings can be found below. 18 April Philip Daval-Bowden 18 April Philip Hall 18 April Gideon Benaim – 4th Statement 17 April Gideon Benaim – 3rd Statement 17 April Gideon Benaim – 2nd Statement 17 April Malcolm Smith 17 April Gloria Hunniford 17 April Paul… Read more »
April 16, 2018
The government plans to ensure that “what is illegal offline is illegal online”. Following its Internet Safety Strategy Green Paper, it has asked the Law Commission to review the laws on offensive communications and to assess how far they protect victims online. As part of the government’s Digital Charter, the government will also introduce a… Read more »
March 28, 2018
There have recently been notable advances in the fight against abuse of the online ticket market. The government is introducing a new criminal offence to tackle the use of bots that override limits on how many tickets a single purchaser can buy for a recreational, sporting or cultural event in the UK. In England and Wales,… Read more »
March 27, 2018
After nearly five years of litigation, the Ninth Circuit of the US Court of Appeals recently published its judgment in the case of Williams v Gaye.[1] Decision The court upheld a verdict of copyright infringement against Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke over the best-selling song of 2013, Blurred Lines. It found that the writers had copied… Read more »
February 27, 2018
Welcome to the Employment Department Winter Briefing 2018. In this edition we look at: GDPR FOR EMPLOYERS: WILL YOU BE READY? #METOO – IS IT TIME TO REVIEW YOUR ANTI-HARASSMENT AND BULLYING POLICY? EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL FEES – GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN… If you would like to discuss any of the points raised, please get in touch… Read more »
February 19, 2018
Limitation of liability is invariably a key point of negotiation in any contract. Each party – alive to the fact that things can and often do go wrong in commercial relationships – seeks to limit its potential exposure as far as possible and/or (where the more likely to suffer damage) to maximise the losses it can… Read more »
February 5, 2018
At the end of December, music streaming leader Spotify filed documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering, as reported by Axios. The documents were filed confidentially utilising the “stealth filing option”, a new process introduced by the SEC in July intended to make the listing process more efficient. Companies,… Read more »
January 30, 2018
As you may be aware, there has recently been some discussion around proposed changes to EIS and SEIS tax incentives for investments in smaller companies. In particular with regard to the new rule called ‘The Risk To Capital Requirement’. This has been of particular interest to the film and TV industry but will also be… Read more »
