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The Lens Newsletter - September 2025 A selection of our latest blogs on all things digital from our experts and thought leaders here at Slaughter and May. ICO Issues First Guidance on Distributed Ledger Technologies The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has followed the European Da... Competition and Regulatory Newsletter: European Commission accepts commitments in respect of Microsoft Teams On 12 September 2025, the European Commission accepted commitments from Microsoft to address preliminary concerns about the tying of Teams to Microsoft’s productivity applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Competition Commissioner Teresa Ribera... Tax Disputes: from assessment to FTT Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide – International Arbitration 2025 – England & Wales: Law and Practice The International Arbitration 2025 guide provides the latest legal information on global arbitration practice and trends across over 60 jurisdictions, including on governing legislation, arbitral tribunals, challenges to jurisdiction, preliminary and inte... Strike out: no second bite of the cherry DP World Djibouti FZCO v China Merchants Port Holdings Company Limited In the latest episode of the dispute between port operators, DP World and China Merchants Port, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance struck out and dismissed a second action by DP Wor... Training data in, court case out? In this briefing we look at the legal debate around using third-party content to train generative AI, with a focus on UK, EU and US approaches and key copyright cases. INTRODUCTION When ChatGPT was released in 2022, it started an explosion in the use of, ... Competition and Regulatory Newsletter: Ticketmaster changes practices following CMA investigation On 25 September 2025 the Competition and Markets Authority announced that Ticketmaster has agreed to legally binding undertakings designed to improve transparency in its ticket sales processes. These undertakings follow the CMA's investigation into whethe... Getting ready for Stablecoins The Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, wrote an opinion article in the Financial Times on 1 October 2025 describing the regulation of stablecoins as “a regime that can put the UK at the forefront of exciting innovation”[1] – a signal that... FCA publishes motor finance redress scheme consultation On 7 October 2025, the FCA published its highly anticipated consultation on a proposed motor finance redress scheme. This follows the Supreme Court finding in Johnson1 on 1 August 2025 of an unfair relationship within s140A of the Consumer Credit Act 1974... Restructuring plans: where next? In the period since its inception in 2020, the Part 26A restructuring plan has proven to be a powerful addition to the English restructuring toolkit, allowing – through cross-class cram down – a transaction to be imposed on a dissenting class. There is a ...