Railway strikes in the UK have halted services throughout July and Augst 2022.
Sony, owners and creators of the gaming sensation PlayStation, have been hit with a lawsuit with a possible £5 billion pay out.
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The UK government has once again extended its trade sanctions with Russia.
The UK underwent a record-breaking heatwave in July with another hitting the country in August.
The UK has blocked a Chinese company from purchasing intellectual property from the University of Manchester using its powers under the National Security and Investment Act.
At every major sporting event, there is a wider range of legal issues to consider that touch upon all aspects of the event from corporate and commercial through to regulatory and disciplinary matters. Parties to these issues include the organisers, rights-holders, governing bodies, teams, and athletes. The Olympic and Paralympic Games that will be hosted in China in 2022 will be no different.
The woes of Brexit continues as businesses seek to relocate UK jobs and operation to the EU. To combat this the Bank of England is “demanding that lenders seek approval” from the Bank prior to relocation. Following concerns that EU regulators are asking more and more firms to move back to the continent.
With backing from the Pope, on 5th May President Biden expressed support for a temporary waiver on patents for Covid vaccines. At the WTO conference in Porto however, EU nations have pushed back against the proposal, suggesting instead that the US should allow the increased export of doses and key ingredients to countries that are currently facing a shortage of doses and rising death tolls,1 such as India and Brazil.
Taylor Swift is set to release the rerecorded ‘Taylor’s version’ of her Grammy award-winning album ‘Fearless’. Swift was given the right to start rerecording her albums in November 2020 after leaving Big Machine Records and signing with a new label, a move that resulted in Swift’s masters being sold without her knowledge. [1]
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On January 13th, 2021, the government released a White Paper in response Sir Simon Wessely’s proposed recommendations made in a 2018 report on reforming the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA). This will be followed by 12-weeks of public consultation, with a draft of a revised Mental Health Bill to be introduced when government time allows.
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China, which was starting to be seen as a rising capitalist power and the land of opportunity by its people, is now uncompromisingly at war with this notion. With its ever-increasing trade sanctions and restrictions on mass media, it comes as a shock that China has agreed a trade deal with Europe.
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