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New Statement on Liability for AI Harms What happens when someone suffers loss because of an AI chatbot’s mistake? The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) explored this question – and others around liability for non-deliberate harm – in its recent 130-page Legal Statement on Liability for AI Harms...
AI momentum shows no sign of slowing: recent regulatory developments in the EU and UK We know the AI regulatory landscape is evolving, but the last few weeks have seen policymakers and regulators in both the EU and UK announce a range of developments which illustrate the pace of this change.  In the EU, the staged implementation of the AI...
Caught in the web: EDPB guidelines on scraping for generative AI As regulators and legislators across Europe continue to grapple with the intersection of AI development and data protection, the EDPB has published new draft guidelines on one of the most contentious data collection practices underpinning generative AI...
JJH Enterprises v Microsoft: exhausting another avenue in the battle over software resale markets As the software resale market continues to develop, questions remain over when holders of UK and EU copyrights might be able to prevent sales of second-hand software licences.  More than a decade after the CJEU’s landmark 2012 ruling in UsedSoft v Oracle,...
AI as witness coach? Court of Appeal draws the line Can a witness who turns to AI for assistance in preparing for cross-examination be said to have been impermissibly “coached”? In R v FGD [2026] EWCA Crim 918, the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) has answered that question in the affirmative. It was...
EU Clarifies AI Transparency Duties as Deadline Looms The AI Act’s transparency rules (or most of them at least) apply from 2 August 2026, with the goal of increasing transparency of AI-generated or manipulated content. Having published the Code of Practice in June (see our blog), the Commission has now...
Summer data protection forecast: Insights from the new ICO strategy, EDPB and more Data protection regulators on both sides of the Channel are signalling a pivot towards pragmatism. A regime change in the UK Government this week is shortly going to be followed by a reshuffle at the UK’s data protection regulator, with the ICO due to...
Need-to-know July developments: Children’s online safety, social media bans and age assurance This morning we hosted an Online Safety Lawyers’ Network event in our London office, focused on the wave of social media bans and what this means for the development of online safety regulation and for age assurance. Despite being long-planned, the event...
New German RETT reform removes double taxation risk on share deals Germany has finally put to rest one of the most controversial aspects of real estate transfer tax (RETT) practice: the risk of being taxed twice on the same share deal. On 2 July 2026, several amendments to the German Real Estate Transfer Tax Act (RETT...
EDPB Finalises Guidelines on GDPR and Blockchain Following its public consultation in Q2 2025, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has now published its finalised Guidelines on processing of personal data through blockchain technologies.  In short, very few changes have been made to the draft...
CJEU confirms no communication to the public where effective geo-blocking used The CJEU has confirmed, in Anne Frank Fonds (Case C-788/24), that there will be no communication to the public, for copyright purposes, where effective website geo-blocking is used to restrict access to copyright works in those countries where the works...
The Securities Transfer Tax Draft legislation implementing the new Securities Transfer Tax (STT) was published on 13 July. STT is a new single, digital, self-assessed tax on the transfer of shares and certain other securities, intended to replace stamp duty and SDRT.  The objective...
Recent CJEU ruling raises questions about German real estate transfer tax A recent preliminary ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) could have significant implications for businesses holding German real estate through corporate structures. While the case itself concerned Portuguese tax law, its reasoning...
OSA categorisation: Who has been named and what’s coming next? Last week Ofcom published its register of categorised services, naming those platforms subject to additional obligations under the Online Safety Act (OSA) rulebook. To accompany this decision, Ofcom has published two new consultations on certain duties...
Anonymous to whom? The EDPB's new draft guidelines on Anonymisation The question of whether data is anonymous, and therefore outside the scope of the GDPR, has become increasingly important in a world of constant data re-use, time-consuming data subject access requests and innovative projects typically involving AI.  An...