SARs Q&A for employers
26 May 2023
The ICO received over 15,000 complaints relating to Subject Access Requests (SARs) from April 2022 to March 2023.
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Recent developments in the difference between the AVs and the AV nots
15 May 2023
Increasing column inches are being filled in relation to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the potential impact on many sectors, demonstrating evidence of growing excitement and concern in almost equal measure. You will have heard the warning from Geoffrey Hinton, previously of Google, that AI chatbots could soon be more intelligent than humans, largely due to the speed of advances which are approaching an exponential rate. There have been calls to pause progress in such developments in order to design and implement robust safety measures.
Decision in sports hall wall fall finds no fault at all
11 May 2023
Sengers v Moray College - The question of what duty of care is owed to adults voluntarily participating in a parents’ race at a children’s sports day was considered in a recent case which we successfully defended.
LIV GOLF –v– LIV Nightclub Entertainment: A Case Study in Brand Protection and Trade Marks
02 May 2023
Keen golfers and sports fans among us will no doubt be aware of the existence of the LIV Golf Tour (“LIV Golf”). For those not aware, LIV is a new professional golf tour created in 2021 as a rival to the well established PGA Tour and DP World Tour. In its short lifespan, LIV Golf has attracted household names in the sport of golf away from the establishment and into their new competition designed to “disrupt” a sport that seldom breaks away from tradition.
What can we learn from The Ashley Foundation? Charity Commission disqualifies trustees for 10-15 years
27 April 2023
Earlier this year The Charity Commission for England and Wales published its decision following an inquiry into The Ashley Foundation, a charity founded in 1997 to provide support and accommodation to homeless people. The Commission concluded that there had been “serious misconduct and/or mismanagement in the administration of the charity” by three of its trustees, including the founder Lee Dribben and his son Ashley Dribben, both of whom have now been disqualified as trustees of all charities in England and Wales for 15 years. While this is an English case, the facts of the case are relevant to Scottish charities.