NIPC Law

By Christine Smith - This file has been extracted from another file: Middlesex Guildhall.png, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82543212 Jane Lambert Supreme Court (Lord Reed, Lord Hodge, Lady Black. Lord Briggs and Lord Sales)  Unwired Planet International Ltd and another v Huawei Technologies (UK) Co Ltd and another [2020] UKSC 37 (26 August 2020) This was the judgment in the conjoined appeals from the decisions of the Court of Appeal in  Unwired Planet International Ltd and another v Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and another   [2018] RPC 20, [2018] EWCA Civ 2344 and  Huawei Technologies Co, Ltd v Conversant Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L [2019] RPC 6, [2019] EWCA Civ 38.  I have discussed the litigation in the High Court and Court of Appeal in FRAND - A Recap   on   8 Aug 2020 and FRAND on 8 Oct 2017.  I shall discuss the Supreme Court's judgment on FRAND in a talk over Zoo...

Bitcoin ATM Author Martin E Walder   Licence CC-BY 3.0   Source Wikipedia Cryptocurrency Jane Lambert in its Legal Statement on Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts ,  the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce ("UKJT") published the opinions of  Lawrence Akka QC , David Quest QC , Matthew Lavy and Sam Goodman  ("the drafting committee") on a number of legal questions relating to cryptoassets and smart contracts where there are areas of perceived uncertainty. The Institutions The UKJT is chaired by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Chancellor of the High Court and consists of Lawrence Akka QC, Sir Nicholas Green, Chair of the Law Commission of England and Wales, as an observer, Richard Hay of Linklaters LLP. Peter Hunn of the Accord Project, Mary Kyle of the City of London Corporation, Christopher Woolard of the Financial Conduct Authority and Mr Justice Zacaroli.  The publication was delivered by the LawTech Delivery Panel  which describes its...

Author David Castor Licence CCO 1.0   Source Wikipedia Royal Courts of Justice Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Lewison, Floyd and Hamblin)  Addlesee and others v Dentons Europe LLP [2019] EWCA Civ 1600 (2 Oct 2019) This was an appeal against Master Clark's refusal to order disclosure of certain documents on the grounds that they were privileged.  The applicants for disclosure were investors in a Cypriot company called Anabus Holdings Ltd ("Anabus") and the respondents were Anabus's former solicitors. Anabus had been wound up though it would still have been possible to restore it to the register.  The applicants, who had lost a lot of money from investing in Anabus, had brought deceit and negligence proceedings against the solicitors. At paragraph [1] of his judgment, Lord Justice Lewison summarized the issue in this appeal as: "what happens to legal advice privilege attaching to communications between a company and its lawyers...