Jon C. Gale

Mar 21, 2024 | lexology.com | Rafael Baena |Gabriele Accardo |Nicolas Quoy |Fiona Garside |Nigel J Parr |Amanda K Ludlow | +4 more

Key themes, incoming reforms and cases to watchDigital platforms, online content providers and other businesses active in the digital economy face an increasingly complex and evolving legal and regulatory landscape in the EU and UK with privacy and data regulation, online safety, competition and consumer issues increasingly intertwined in the digital sphere, and new regulation such as the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA).

Feb 6, 2024 | lexology.com | Jon C. Gale |Justin Browne

In Commission Recovery Ltd v Marks & Clerk LLP, the Court of Appeal ruled that a claim in respect of "secret commissions" paid by an IP renewal services firm could proceed as a representative action under CPR 19.8.Key takeawaysThis is the first Court of Appeal judgment on the CPR 19.8 representative action regime following the UK Supreme Court's 2021 decision in Lloyd v Google.

Jan 15, 2024 | lexology.com | Jon C. Gale |James Levy |Tim West |Sophie Law |Angus Rance |Justin Browne | +3 more

Once again the commercial litigation team at Ashurst welcomed the New Year with a discussion on the main issues of 2023 and our predictions for 2024. Our top ten are as follows. 1. Alternative Dispute Resolution, or ADR, is no longer an alternativeThis year we moved several steps closer to Sir Geoffrey Vos’ vision of ADR forming part of an integrated dispute process, rather than being seen as alternative.

Jan 10, 2024 | lexology.com | Jon C. Gale |Tim West

Class actions enable large number of claimants to bring claims raising the same or similar issues against defendants. England, in common with a number of other jurisdictions, has witnessed a significant growth in class actions in recent years - over £100 billion is currently being claimed against defendants in class actions in the UK alone.