Three Legal Conundrums in the Press This Week

Three little stories in the press this week have posed what we believe are some interesting legal issues. Whilst the stories are all international, we approach them from a UK law perspective

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Physician Heal Thyself…

What at first may have appeared as a familiar attempt from Jose Mourinho to deflect focus from Chelsea’s opening

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One Artist’s Rubbish Is Another Person’s Treasure

Our attention has been caught by the recent story of a legal row between an artist and her former studio & workshop. In a nutshell Gypsy Hill Workshop (the ‘Workshop’’) have allegedly sold items which they claim are the ‘work’ of artist Angelique Hartigan.

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Uber and Out ? A look at the regulatory implications of the current spat.

On 22 September, Transport for London issued a statement.  It had decided, pending its expiry on 30 September, that Uber’s ‘private hire operator licence’ would not be renewed.

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HMRC issues formal guidance on image rights

We have before idly speculated on some of the more entertaining image rights issues in the world of law – see link here.  In the light of HMRC’s recently issued

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Imitation: Not Always the Best Form of Flattery

A little story in the Guardian set the ‘Wryly Comic’ light flashing on the M Law Media Watch Switchboard this morning. Please read the original article here. Fact yet again is stranger than fiction. It appears that German World Champion and Manchester United flagship

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SHARED PARENTAL LEAVE

Back in 2015, when the Government introduced Shared Parental Leave (SPL) overwhelmingly

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TV FORMATS & COPYRIGHT: WHAT’S THE X-FACTOR?

The extent to which you can protect a TV format has long been a muddy area of UK law. The high profile spat between Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell was perhaps to decide – or at least provide guidance on – this area of law once and for all. Fuller took Cowell

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