The background - In 2016, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (“the Foundation”) licenced to Condé Nast an image of ‘Orange Prince’ - an orange silkscreen portrait of the late musician Prince created by pop artist Andy Warhol – to appear on the cover of a magazine commemorating Prince.
In the case of Kirkwood v Thelem Insurance, 2023, the Inner House of the Court of Session recently shone a light on the recoverability of English Solicitors’ costs for a litigation conducted in Scotland before the Court of Session.
The latest case to test the murky waters of the application of Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting (hereinafter referred to as QOCs), accentuates the uphill battle that defenders face to find an exception to the rules set out in Section 8 of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018.
Companies in the STEM sector often start out life as a hot bed of creativity and optimism regarding how to solve a new problem or engineer a new product. This creative and optimistic starting point can also lead to certain errors that can be hard to unwind, but which could have been avoided. Below is a list of early stage company mistakes to try to avoid:
In July 2023, the European Commission confirmed that it had adopted an adequacy decision in respect of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The decision states that the Commission considers that the data protection safeguards which the Framework provides, are comparable to those provided by EU law.