It is, by now, well known that not taking data protection seriously can prove costly for organizations. Since the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR") in 2018, non-GDPR-compliant...more
The Advocate General (AG) Pikamäe of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued his opinions in three cases concerning the credit rating agency SCHUFA Holding AG (SCHUFA) on 16 March 2023....more
The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU has issued an Opinion stating that mere "upset" is not sufficient to give rise to a claim for compensation under Article 82 of the GDPR....more
Welcome to September’s edition of the UK Tax Round Up. In addition to the headline-grabbing 2022 Growth Plan announced by the UK Chancellor, there have been a number of interesting cases this month including the First-tier...more
Welcome to May's edition of the UK Tax Round Up. This month has seen a number of interesting court decisions, an important opinion of the European Commission’s Advocate General and the commencement of a Treasury consultation...more
In a recent case, an employer petitioned the Sub-District Court to dissolve an employment contract with immediate effect after the UWV (Employee Insurance Agency) had dismissed its application for dismissal for economic...more
On 24 June 2021, the Advocate General (AG) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued his opinion on the preliminary ruling request submitted by Germany's Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) in case...more
CELF Talks: Il Fondo di Garanzia PMI nella normativa emergenziale Ne discutono: Bernardo Mattarella,Amministratore delegato di Banca del Mezzogiorno-MCC Patrizio Messina, Head of Finance Group Orrick Clicca qui per vedere...more
Online platform operators have a rare cause to be cautiously optimistic at news from the European court. In a recently-published European Court of Justice (ECJ) opinion, Advocate General Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe stated that,...more
Does your organization transfer personal data from the European Union to the US? If so, keep an eye out for a key decision on July 16 from the EU’s top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Schrems II case...more
In her opinion issued on June 4, 2020, Advocate General (AG) Juliane Kokott recommended that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) dismiss in its entirety the appeal by Lundbeck A/S and Lundbeck Ltd against the General Court’s...more
The eagerly anticipated decision of the European Court of Justice in the case of Sky v. SkyKick [Case C 371/18] was delivered on January 29, 2020. ...more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the EU advocate general's decision in Schrems II, a federal court's ruling that an insurer owed coverage for a social engineering loss, the Chinese...more
On 30 January 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its decision on a request for preliminary ruling submitted by the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in a case concerning the long-standing...more
On January 15, the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) Advocate General (AG) Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona delivered his Opinion on four references for preliminary rulings on the topic of retention of and access...more
We reported in July 2019 that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) heard a case brought by privacy-rights activist Max Schrems, challenging the validity of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), which are widely...more
On December 19th the EU Advocate General for the European Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion to the court in the case known as Schrems II. The main question presented to the court is the validity of the EU standard...more
The Advocate General’s Opinion of December 19, 2019 deemed valid the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) adopted by the European Commission for the transfer of personal data from controllers to processors. Currently, many...more
On 16 May 2019, the CJEU Advocate General delivered his opinion in Spedidam, following the request for a preliminary ruling from the French Supreme Court on whether the French legal framework allowing the French National...more
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (“CETA”) concluded between Canada and the European Union (“EU”) celebrated its first birthday in September last year. While both Canada and the EU have reported that the benefits...more
Can the Federal Republic of Germany invoke a copyright on military status reports? This is the key question currently before the European Court of Justice (CJEU) (Case Ref. C-469/17)....more
Copying an image from a website and using it for one’s own purposes, e.g. the illustration of a memo which eventually happens to be uploaded to another website – this happens a hundred times every day. However, such conduct...more
On 25 July 2018, Advocate General Kokott proposed that the EU Court of Justice validate the annulment by the EU General Court of the European Commission’s 2013 prohibition decision of UPS's planned acquisition of its...more
The concept of a “communication to the public” under the InfoSoc Directive has given rise to a great many cases yet the meaning remains somewhat uncertain. In a case brought by the German Federal Court of Justice...more
The cases that deal with the meaning of “communication to the public” continue: in a current reference for a preliminary ruling, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) will have to decide whether the operators of websites that...more