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Who's in the driving seat? Driverless cars, liability and insurance
For many, driverless cars and autonomous driving features present exciting commercial and technological opportunities. For the insurance industry, however, they are a significant market disruptor.
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Driverless cars and product liability
Driverless cars are among the most significant advancements in technology set to bring about changes to our existing product liability regimes.
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Unjustified threats of patent infringement – changes to UK law
What is the significance of the Supreme Court decision on "pemetrexed disodium"?
Focus on confidentiality when dealing with grievances
Ransomware: loss and liability
In 2016, ransomware incidents were reported to have increased by over 300% – with the number of attacks still on the rise. Ransomware is a form of malware that blocks a user's access to its system or files through encryption until a ransom is paid, although payment doesn't always guarantee returned access.
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Limiting liability in IT contracts
Limitation of liability clauses are often the subject of extensive negotiations between business to business parties of an IT contract. It is difficult to escape the conflict between the competing priorities of customer and supplier - the customer aims to secure the maximum protection available against future losses but the supplier wants a level of liability to match the perceived value of the project to it. How wide can the supplier go to limit its liability and what does a customer need to do to ensure fairness while maintaining some certainty as to the losses potentially recoverable?
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Trust Beneficial Owner Register update
CJEU dismisses European Medicines Agency's appeals against interim measures halting the release of documents relating to two medicinal products to third parties
