The rule of law, an independent judiciary and a trusted common law system, as well as a wealth of local and international legal expertise, ensure a comprehensive range of world-class legal services in ...

Swiss data protection law is primarily set out in the Federal Data Protection Act (FDPA) and the Data Protection Ordinance (FDPO). As Switzerland is a member neither of the EU nor the EEA, the EU ...

It is often said that the speed of technological progress outstrips the law’s ability to keep pace. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the field of data protection and cybersecurity when almost ...

In recent years, financial crime prosecutors have sought to encourage companies to establish compliance programmes designed to avoid – or at least detect – illegal conduct, by including the ...

In Malaysia, employment issues are governed primarily by statute and contract. In respect of enterprises with large scale workforces, which would include the financial, manufacturing, industrial and ...

With global vaccination rates lifting consumer sentiment there are reasons to be optimistic about economic recovery from the global pandemic. However, new virus mutations, uneven vaccination rates, ...

There are many differences between UK and Norwegian litigation. In this article, we will give a brief outline of some of the possibilities in Norwegian litigation, as well as some issues that one ...

Earlier this year, the Court of Appeal handed down two important judgments on the environmental impacts of commercial enterprises on their neighbours. The first case, Coventry (t/a RDC Promotions) & ...

Two years on from the implementation of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, DAC Beachcroft’s data protection specialists consider the challenges their clients face in this now-established data ...

It is possible artificial intelligence will change all our working life immeasurably in the next 20 years. It might put us all out of work; nobody knows. Even if it did happen in 20 years’ time, it is ...

Are in-house counsel ready to be business leaders? It seems a strange question to have to ask given the level of education and training of most in-house lawyers and the dramatic expansion of the size ...

The statistics on the in-house profession in Japan are even more surprising. Figures from the Japan In-House Lawyers Association show that the country had fewer than 200 in-house lawyers at the start ...