News & Insights

News articles and our expert insights on the latest developments in our practice areas and sectors.

Get in touch

Duality sparks inside of me!

Blinging up baby – taking “due care” of children’s welfare and dignity

Employee payments can’t be trusted

European Commission consultation on the Audiovisual Media Services Directive

The battle of the ukulele bands

Simkins win Blackstone ‎Chambers Media Quiz

“Norton my watch” says Lord Justice Tomlinson

Gideon Benaim – Lawyer of the Year nomination

When is an audiovisual media service not an Audiovisual Media Service?

Beatles documentary hits the wrong notes with the High Court

Private copying: unlawful once again

Yielding up

Firm news

Yielding up

August 25, 2015

Employment law case update

Not Giving It Up Yet

How to avoid costly hidden liabilities when acquiring a lease

Media Trust Triathlon 2015

The first step towards fair compensation for private copying

A Swift Backtrack

Theatre Stalls

Cyrus Fatemi

Firm news

Cyrus Fatemi

Distributor found liable for failing to deliver accounts and masters

Can an imputation of disloyalty be defamatory?

“A Tenant’s Practical Guide to Commercial Leases” by Stuart Darlington

Michael Simkins LLP Partner Promotions 2015

Can a contract term be actionable as a pre-contractual representation?

Can a Break Notice be withdrawn?

Big Fat Gypsy Weddings get Ofcom (and High Court) approval

High Court ruling on remedies leaves Fox with little glee

Guidelines on data removal following Google Spain

Binders and Documents

Budget Highlights 2015

A case of Blurred Lines between style and substance?

Budget 2015: changes to SEIS and EIS

Budget 2015 – Boost for film, TV and other creative industries

Simkins on air

Reloaded – Rihanna claim against Topshop upheld

Trainee Open Evening

Simkins celebrates Burns Night

Shared parental leave and pay: The due date has arrived

Rihanna (Don’t) Love The Way You Lie

BestWater practice for linking or framing content

Want to use another’s copyright material, but can’t find the copyright owner? How to get a licence to use orphan works

Heartbroken by performer’s rights damages inquiry

Penny Jar

Simkins’ lawyers featured in Super Lawyers

Simkins’ Reputation lawyers recognised by Spear’s Wealth and Super Lawyers

Chancellor’s Autumn Statement 2014 – Support for the creative sector

Royal Mail appoints Simkins to legal panel

Copyright Seminar: Seeing the funny side …

Employment Law Update November 2014

Training Contract Applications open for 2017

Simkins recommended once again in the UK Legal Directories

A trustee, and you don’t know your FATCA obligations? You should!

Winners of the Blackstone Chambers 2014 Media Quiz

Employment Law Update

The parody exception – having the last laugh

MPA wins case against controller of Newzbin

Ofcom fines Discovery for pre-watershed graphic material

Modernising film tax credits

Facebook’s Community Standards: Severed heads are okay, but nipples are bad (unless accompanied by a baby)

Copyright exceptions on parody, quotation & private copying approved by Parliament – changes in effect 1 October 2014

Opinion: An Australian Court issues a “gagging order” which is being called an “abuse of process”. Fair assessment or not?

Playboy Club wins damages claim against Italian bank for negligent customer reference

Winners of the Ivy’s 80’s Music Quiz

Reporting, the courts and young people: time to reconsider?

Music and Taxation: The State of Art, Verbier, 18 July 2014

New Guidance: Relief from sanction, Mitchell Clarified

Ownership of Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry” determined

The parody exception – seeing the funny side of it

Bloomberg: ” ‘Google It’ Becomes ‘Hide It’ After Right to Be Forgotten “

Google’s “Transparency Report” is an interesting read

The Prince of Wales’ letters case – information access ban unlawful

Renewed calls to tackle “revenge porn”

Becky Hill – No. 1 in UK singles chart

UPDATE: Google and the “right to be forgotten”

Opinion: The Right to Be Forgotten: A Good Thing?

Opinion: A future with social media: Wild West or Utopia? You have a stake in the outcome

Digitisation after Google Books – is fair use fair dealing?

‘Revenge porn’: whether you are a film star; girl next door; or daughter of an executive, greater legal protection is needed for victims

Health spa takes a bath at the CJEU

Seminar: E&O Insurance & Clearance Issues

Broadcasting Regulation Newsletter

Collective Rights Management: multi-territorial licensing and self-regulation

Communicating copyright works – when you can and can’t link to websites

Can copyright subsist in a music compilation or playlist?

Victory for landlords as Court of Appeal hands down decision in the Game Station case

New privacy and jurisdiction headache for Google

The business of digital music in 2014 – reasons to be cheerful?

The business of digital music in 2014 – reasons to be cheerful?

PR and Marketing Seminar: Making Music Work

E&O Insurance & Clearance Issues

TV Remote

Copyright Tribunal rules on licence fee to be paid by BBC to Welsh collecting society

Assignments of future copyright extend to rights that writers “may” own

Should investors be concerned about defamation claims brought against a company in the English courts?

Why EIS? – some vital statistics

Michael Simkins LLP is nominated as Best EIS Legal Advisor

Simkins’ Gideon Benaim comments on social media abuse on Sky News

Operators of Websites