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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
20 August 2013
Using Rihanna’s image – “we found love”?
We discuss the image rights of celebrities in the context of the recent Topshop / Rihanna case
9 August 2013
Defamation & Malicious Falsehood – discussing the Peter Cruddas case – part 2
Last year Peter Cruddas, former Conservative Party co-treasurer, commenced proceedings against the Sunday Times for defamation and malicious falsehood following the publication of a series of articles about him in March 2012. Katherine Pymont discusses.
8 August 2013
Image Rights - big business in sport
Image Rights can be lucrative, and for some sports personalities and clubs, the most valuable source of revenue. However, unlike in some countries, the UK has no recognised or defined legal right in law for a person to protect their image. As a result, sportsmen and their clubs frequently seek to use other legal tools to exploit Image Rights.
31 July 2013
Defamation & Malicious Falsehood – discussing the Peter Cruddas case - part 1
Katherine Pymont looks into the detail at the Peter Cruddas defamation and malicious falsehood case.
19 July 2013
Interest rate swaps: potential causes of action in misselling claims
Interest rate swap misselling claims have increasingly become another key battleground area in financial services litigation against banks. However, succeeding in such claims has so far proved difficult for claimants and the recent reported cases that have gone before the Courts will have given the banks confidence in defending such claims. In a recent blog 'Claims against banks – your 10 point guide' we examined a number of issues which you should consider before bringing a claim against a bank in relation to the misselling of an interest rate hedging product or other financial product.
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