Knowledge Notes
In this more regulated and complex world, businesses need to know what is happening in relevant areas of law… as it happens.
Our Knowledge Notes are short and fast, highlighting new business law developments. They are designed for busy in-house lawyers and everyone in business who deals with the increasing amount of legislation, regulation and guidance coming daily out of government, agencies and regulators.
Sometimes, we will build on these Knowledge Notes with more content on our Insights pages, but if there's anything in these Notes which you would like to discuss, please do get in touch with your Osborne Clarke contact.
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UK Knowledge Collection | Liability for appointed representatives, voluntary carbon markets, and M&A in the staffing sector
UK Knowledge Collection | OTSI's enforcement powers, 'less healthy' food and drink ad restrictions, and AI in pharma and medtech
UK Knowledge Collection | High street rental auctions, business tenancies, and failure to prevent fraud
UK Knowledge Collection | Black Friday, pension changes, and payment times and public procurement
UK Knowledge Collection | Sustainability, In-house Lawyer Talks, and regulatory challenges in M&A
UK Knowledge Collection | Regulation and growth, Takeover Code changes, and economic crime
UK Knowledge Collection | Autumn Budget, data law reform, and Online Safety Act implementation
UK Knowledge Collection | EU consumer law, healthcare regulator changes, and IP value in M&A and PFI deals
UK Knowledge Collection | Renters' rights, ESG, and the future of IP
The UK government's first 100 days – what measures affecting business have been progressed as anticipated?
UK Knowledge Collection | First 100 days of new government, employment law reform, what to expect from the Budget
UK Knowledge Collection | Contingent workers, courts' case law departure powers, and intellectual property
UK Knowledge Collection | Timeline for consumer and competition law changes, new sanctions enforcement body, and public procurement
UK Knowledge Collection | Dynamic pricing, consumer credit reform, and group litigation
UK Knowledge Collection | Public procurement, new duty to prevent sexual harassment, and financial crime
UK Knowledge Collection | Digital markets and eCommerce, forever chemicals and DSARs
UK Knowledge Collection | Litigation funding, 'failure to prevent' offences, and renters' reform
UK Knowledge Collection | Failure to prevent fraud, cybersecurity, and responding to DSARs
UK Knowledge Collection | AI inventions and patentability, 'known risk' exemption in procurement, and tax and the Budget
UK Knowledge Collection | Regulatory Outlook, EU product safety, and clean energy policies
UK Knowledge Collection | The King's Speech, reform of the Listing Rules, and EU AI compliance deadlines
What did the UK King's Speech contain for business?
UK Knowledge Collection | Employment reforms, AI and IP rights, and force majeure
UK Knowledge Collection | Courts' powers to depart from precedent, contingent workforce rules, and regulating online financial promotions
UK Knowledge Collection | Regulatory outlook, what business can expect from the next government, and creditor consent in insolvency
UK Knowledge Collection | AI Act compliance, employment law changes, and contingent worker supply chain risk
UK general election 2024: what will a new government mean for business growth?
UK Knowledge Collection | AI and regulation, APP fraud, and corporate transparency changes
UK Knowledge Collection | Leasehold and freehold reform, ESG, and supply chain and logistics
UK Knowledge Collection | Parliamentary 'wash-up', data law, and online child safety
Finishing Parliamentary business in the 'wash-up' ahead of UK general election: what legislation has survived and what has fallen?
UK Knowledge Collection | New UK digital markets regime, the EU AI Act, and logistics developments
UK Knowledge Collection | International disputes, corporate sustainability, and dealmaking trends in Europe
UK Knowledge Collection | AI in recruitment and financial services, and digital product security
UK Knowledge Collection | ESG, litigation funding, and changes to the Takeover Code
UK Knowledge Collection | Online safety, financial promotions, and regulating precision-bred organisms
UK Knowledge Collection | Natural capital, opposed lease renewals, and minimising risk in supply chains
UK Knowledge Collection | Green agreements and competition law, avoiding supply chain risk, and cyber resilience
UK Knowledge Collection | Corporate sustainability, supply chains, and the UK sanctions regime
UK Knowledge Collection | Sustainability, building remedial work, and Disputes Week
UK Knowledge Collection | The Spring Budget, changes to statutory employment rights, and operational resilience
UK Knowledge Collection | ESG risk, cyber security, and building safety disputes
UK Knowledge Collection | Spring Budget, regulating AI, and ESG
UK Knowledge Collection | TMC Annual Review, greenwashing, and biodiversity net gain
UK Knowledge Collection | AI's use by the judiciary and in the financial services and tech sectors, and the regulation and marketing of novel foods
UK Knowledge Collection | Data, financial services and product regulation, and intellectual property
UK Knowledge Collection | The future of financial services, changes to the listing regime, and consumer credit
UK Knowledge Collection | What is in store for business in 2024?
What legal developments can businesses in the UK expect in 2024?
UK Knowledge Collection | Artificial intelligence and greenwashing
UK Knowledge Collection | Litigation risk from generative AI use, mandatory mediation, and the 'shareholder principle' of privilege
UK Knowledge Collection | COP28, environmental claims, and the regulation of AI
UK Knowledge Collection | Autumn Statement, illegal harms consultation, and UK Russian sanctions regime
UK Knowledge Collection | Black Friday and competition law, minimising risk at work events, and digital markets, data and media reform
UK Knowledge Collection | Anticipating the autumn statement, new legislative programme, and data regulation
UK Knowledge Collection
What to expect from the UK King's Speech
UK Knowledge Collection
UK Knowledge Collection | ESG compliance, mitigating AI risk, and cross-border data transfers
UK Knowledge Collection | New EU foreign subsidies notification regime, 'control' by designated person, and commercial landlords, restructuring plans and trespassers
UK Knowledge Collection | Supreme Court decision on holiday pay, VC deal trends, and AI in the energy sector
UK Knowledge Collection | Consumer law risk and AI chatbots, transatlantic data flows, and the Online Safety Bill
UK Knowledge Collection | CBAM transition phase, new building control regime, and sanctions compliance in financial services
UK Knowledge Collection | Avoiding litigation over lease breaks, change of control in financial services, and paperless trade
UK Knowledge Collection | Harmful design in digital markets, consumer law consultation, and AI and data
UK Knowledge Collection | SaaS vendor switch, competition in financial services, and high-growth ventures
UK Knowledge Collection | AI and business risk, social media and financial promotions, M&A in the tech sector
UK Knowledge Collection | Product conformity marking, managing ill-health, and the Register of Overseas Entities
UK Knowledge Collection | Regulatory Outlook, biodiversity net gain, and public procurement
UK Knowledge Collection | How 2023 is turning out, digital assets and English law, employees and AI
Reviewing our UK business law predictions for 2023: how are we doing at the half-way point?
UK Knowledge Collection | REUL Act, transatlantic data flows, and neurotechnology risks
The Retained EU Law Act 2023: the revolution is cancelled, but substantive change to UK law post-Brexit continues
UK Knowledge Collection | Corporate criminal liability, energy innovation, and protected philosophical beliefs
UK Knowledge Collection | Case studies in decarbonising, biodiversity net gain, and marketing cryptoassets
UK Knowledge Collection | Employees and the cost of living crisis, decarbonising cities, and greenwashing
UK Knowledge Collection | Green tech and world cities, regulating AI, and the ageing workforce
UK Knowledge Collection | Generative AI and IP, cyber crime and supply chains, and the Data Forum
UK Knowledge Collection | Competition and AI, data markets and privacy, and M&A and subsidy rules
UK Knowledge Collection | Digitalisation Week, directors' liability and REUL Bill update
UK Knowledge Collection | Employment law reforms, the Unified Patent Court, and our Contract Law Update
UK Knowledge Collection | UK digital market reform, whistleblowing in Europe, and greenwashing risk
UK Knowledge Collection | Generative AI and IP, ethnicity pay gap reporting, and ESG benchmarks
Knowledge Collection | Artificial intelligence, digital commerce, and the impact of the National Security and Investment Act
UK Knowledge Collection | UK 'Green Day' announcements, competition law and sustainability, and digital inclusion
UK Knowledge Collection | Greenwashing risk, consumer credit reform, and digitalisation of tribunal proceedings
UK Knowledge Collection | Spring Budget 2023, commercial landlords and tenant insolvency, and Disputes Week
UK Knowledge Collection | Spring Budget predictions, data protection reform and the four-day week
UK Knowledge Collection | ESG and commercial property, corporate governance and the supply chain
UK Knowledge Collection | The impact of the NS&I Act on deals, sustainability litigation risk, and crypto
UK Knowledge Collection | Unified Patent Court 'basics', AI and IP and our Media and Entertainment Webinar Series
UK Knowledge Collection | The REUL Bill, protecting your position during economic disruption and our disputes week of webinars
The UK Retained EU Law Bill: legislative havoc or promised post-Brexit deregulation?
UK Knowledge Collection | Online IP infringement, menopause in the workplace, and express scope of audit rights |
UK Knowledge Collection | Green consumer claims, ESG in the financial sector and potential new corporate offences
UK Knowledge Collection | TMC horizon scanning, digital transformation projects and employment challenges
UK Knowledge Collection | What developments will 2023 bring?
UK business law predictions for 2023
Knowledge Collection | Anticipated new year reforms in employment law, gambling rules and cryptocurrency regulation
UK Knowledge Collection | ECTEA registration deadline looms, ESG reporting requirements, and biodiversity and business
UK Knowledge Collection | International data transfers, work-related illness, and transparency in procurement
UK Knowledge Collection | UK confirms new digital regulation, employment issues in a downturn, and AI and net zero
Knowledge Collection | UK chancellor's autumn statement, distressed supply chains, and IP strategy
Knowledge Collection | The ESG agenda, diversity and accent bias, and regulating cryptoassets in the UK
Knowledge Collection | Autumn statement predictions, planning for power blackouts in the UK, and the impact of the metaverse
Knowledge Collection | UK government U-turns, energy revenue limits, and transatlantic data adequacy
Knowledge Collection | Competition in digital markets, AI in the workplace, and Decarbonisation Week
Knowledge Collection | Energy saving, hydrogen markets, and digital fairness
Knowledge Collection | UK 'Growth Plan', EU regulatory sunset, and data protection reform
Knowledge Collection | Fiscal event, 'quiet quitting' and the drive to net zero
Knowledge Collection | Artificial intelligence in recruitment, dark patterns and in the built environment
Knowledge Collection | Renewable energy, the 'buy now, pay later' clampdown, and UK crypto-asset consultation
Knowledge Collection | 'Dark patterns', policy challenges of the metaverse, and gene editing in the UK
Knowledge Collection | The future of hydrogen, greenwashing enforcement risk, and the Procurement Bill
Knowledge Collection | Part-year worker holiday pay, sanctions and global supply chains, and regulating crypto and AI
Knowledge Collection | Protected disclosure and philosophical beliefs in the workplace, indicators of sanctions evasion, and labour supply chain risk
Knowledge Collection | Climate change litigation, biodiversity in the EU, and non-fungible tokens in sport
Knowledge Collection | Data protection, audit and governance and residential leasehold reform, and blockchain in M&A
Knowledge Collection | Distressed supply chains, suspicious activity reports, and non-fungible tokens in sport
What to look for in a UK-EU free trade agreement
If the UK and EU agree on the text of a free trade agreement (FTA), here are some of the...
UK Knowledge Collection | Employment law in 2025, consumer law consultations, and the future of financial services
UK Knowledge Collection | Liability for appointed representatives, voluntary carbon markets, and M&A in the staffing sector
UK Knowledge Collection | OTSI's enforcement powers, 'less healthy' food and drink ad restrictions, and AI in pharma and medtech
UK Knowledge Collection | High street rental auctions, business tenancies, and failure to prevent fraud
UK Knowledge Collection | Black Friday, pension changes, and payment times and public procurement
UK Knowledge Collection | Sustainability, In-house Lawyer Talks, and regulatory challenges in M&A
UK Knowledge Collection | Regulation and growth, Takeover Code changes, and economic crime
UK Knowledge Collection | Autumn Budget, data law reform, and Online Safety Act implementation
UK Knowledge Collection | EU consumer law, healthcare regulator changes, and IP value in M&A and PFI deals
UK Knowledge Collection | Renters' rights, ESG, and the future of IP
The UK government's first 100 days – what measures affecting business have been progressed as anticipated?
UK Knowledge Collection | First 100 days of new government, employment law reform, what to expect from the Budget
UK Knowledge Collection | Contingent workers, courts' case law departure powers, and intellectual property
UK Knowledge Collection | Timeline for consumer and competition law changes, new sanctions enforcement body, and public procurement
UK Knowledge Collection | Dynamic pricing, consumer credit reform, and group litigation
UK Knowledge Collection | Public procurement, new duty to prevent sexual harassment, and financial crime
UK Knowledge Collection | Digital markets and eCommerce, forever chemicals and DSARs
UK Knowledge Collection | Litigation funding, 'failure to prevent' offences, and renters' reform
UK Knowledge Collection | Failure to prevent fraud, cybersecurity, and responding to DSARs
UK Knowledge Collection | AI inventions and patentability, 'known risk' exemption in procurement, and tax and the Budget
UK Knowledge Collection | Regulatory Outlook, EU product safety, and clean energy policies
UK Knowledge Collection | The King's Speech, reform of the Listing Rules, and EU AI compliance deadlines
What did the UK King's Speech contain for business?
UK Knowledge Collection | Employment reforms, AI and IP rights, and force majeure
UK Knowledge Collection | Courts' powers to depart from precedent, contingent workforce rules, and regulating online financial promotions
UK Knowledge Collection | Regulatory outlook, what business can expect from the next government, and creditor consent in insolvency
UK Knowledge Collection | AI Act compliance, employment law changes, and contingent worker supply chain risk
UK general election 2024: what will a new government mean for business growth?
UK Knowledge Collection | AI and regulation, APP fraud, and corporate transparency changes
UK Knowledge Collection | Leasehold and freehold reform, ESG, and supply chain and logistics
UK Knowledge Collection | Parliamentary 'wash-up', data law, and online child safety
Finishing Parliamentary business in the 'wash-up' ahead of UK general election: what legislation has survived and what has fallen?
UK Knowledge Collection | New UK digital markets regime, the EU AI Act, and logistics developments
UK Knowledge Collection | International disputes, corporate sustainability, and dealmaking trends in Europe
UK Knowledge Collection | AI in recruitment and financial services, and digital product security
UK Knowledge Collection | ESG, litigation funding, and changes to the Takeover Code
UK Knowledge Collection | Online safety, financial promotions, and regulating precision-bred organisms
UK Knowledge Collection | Natural capital, opposed lease renewals, and minimising risk in supply chains
UK Knowledge Collection | Green agreements and competition law, avoiding supply chain risk, and cyber resilience
UK Knowledge Collection | Corporate sustainability, supply chains, and the UK sanctions regime
UK Knowledge Collection | Sustainability, building remedial work, and Disputes Week
UK Knowledge Collection | The Spring Budget, changes to statutory employment rights, and operational resilience
UK Knowledge Collection | ESG risk, cyber security, and building safety disputes
UK Knowledge Collection | Spring Budget, regulating AI, and ESG
UK Knowledge Collection | TMC Annual Review, greenwashing, and biodiversity net gain
UK Knowledge Collection | AI's use by the judiciary and in the financial services and tech sectors, and the regulation and marketing of novel foods
UK Knowledge Collection | Data, financial services and product regulation, and intellectual property
UK Knowledge Collection | The future of financial services, changes to the listing regime, and consumer credit
UK Knowledge Collection | What is in store for business in 2024?
What legal developments can businesses in the UK expect in 2024?
UK Knowledge Collection | Artificial intelligence and greenwashing
UK Knowledge Collection | Litigation risk from generative AI use, mandatory mediation, and the 'shareholder principle' of privilege
UK Knowledge Collection | COP28, environmental claims, and the regulation of AI
UK Knowledge Collection | Autumn Statement, illegal harms consultation, and UK Russian sanctions regime
UK Knowledge Collection | Black Friday and competition law, minimising risk at work events, and digital markets, data and media reform
UK Knowledge Collection | Anticipating the autumn statement, new legislative programme, and data regulation
UK Knowledge Collection
What to expect from the UK King's Speech
UK Knowledge Collection
UK Knowledge Collection | ESG compliance, mitigating AI risk, and cross-border data transfers
UK Knowledge Collection | New EU foreign subsidies notification regime, 'control' by designated person, and commercial landlords, restructuring plans and trespassers
UK Knowledge Collection | Supreme Court decision on holiday pay, VC deal trends, and AI in the energy sector
UK Knowledge Collection | Consumer law risk and AI chatbots, transatlantic data flows, and the Online Safety Bill
UK Knowledge Collection | CBAM transition phase, new building control regime, and sanctions compliance in financial services
UK Knowledge Collection | Avoiding litigation over lease breaks, change of control in financial services, and paperless trade
UK Knowledge Collection | Harmful design in digital markets, consumer law consultation, and AI and data
UK Knowledge Collection | SaaS vendor switch, competition in financial services, and high-growth ventures
UK Knowledge Collection | AI and business risk, social media and financial promotions, M&A in the tech sector
UK Knowledge Collection | Product conformity marking, managing ill-health, and the Register of Overseas Entities
UK Knowledge Collection | Regulatory Outlook, biodiversity net gain, and public procurement
UK Knowledge Collection | How 2023 is turning out, digital assets and English law, employees and AI
Reviewing our UK business law predictions for 2023: how are we doing at the half-way point?
UK Knowledge Collection | REUL Act, transatlantic data flows, and neurotechnology risks
The Retained EU Law Act 2023: the revolution is cancelled, but substantive change to UK law post-Brexit continues
UK Knowledge Collection | Corporate criminal liability, energy innovation, and protected philosophical beliefs
UK Knowledge Collection | Case studies in decarbonising, biodiversity net gain, and marketing cryptoassets
UK Knowledge Collection | Employees and the cost of living crisis, decarbonising cities, and greenwashing
UK Knowledge Collection | Green tech and world cities, regulating AI, and the ageing workforce
UK Knowledge Collection | Generative AI and IP, cyber crime and supply chains, and the Data Forum
UK Knowledge Collection | Competition and AI, data markets and privacy, and M&A and subsidy rules
UK Knowledge Collection | Digitalisation Week, directors' liability and REUL Bill update
UK Knowledge Collection | Employment law reforms, the Unified Patent Court, and our Contract Law Update
UK Knowledge Collection | UK digital market reform, whistleblowing in Europe, and greenwashing risk
UK Knowledge Collection | Generative AI and IP, ethnicity pay gap reporting, and ESG benchmarks
Knowledge Collection | Artificial intelligence, digital commerce, and the impact of the National Security and Investment Act
UK Knowledge Collection | UK 'Green Day' announcements, competition law and sustainability, and digital inclusion
UK Knowledge Collection | Greenwashing risk, consumer credit reform, and digitalisation of tribunal proceedings
UK Knowledge Collection | Spring Budget 2023, commercial landlords and tenant insolvency, and Disputes Week
UK Knowledge Collection | Spring Budget predictions, data protection reform and the four-day week
UK Knowledge Collection | ESG and commercial property, corporate governance and the supply chain
UK Knowledge Collection | The impact of the NS&I Act on deals, sustainability litigation risk, and crypto
UK Knowledge Collection | Unified Patent Court 'basics', AI and IP and our Media and Entertainment Webinar Series
UK Knowledge Collection | The REUL Bill, protecting your position during economic disruption and our disputes week of webinars
The UK Retained EU Law Bill: legislative havoc or promised post-Brexit deregulation?
UK Knowledge Collection | Online IP infringement, menopause in the workplace, and express scope of audit rights |
UK Knowledge Collection | Green consumer claims, ESG in the financial sector and potential new corporate offences
UK Knowledge Collection | TMC horizon scanning, digital transformation projects and employment challenges
UK Knowledge Collection | What developments will 2023 bring?
UK business law predictions for 2023
Knowledge Collection | Anticipated new year reforms in employment law, gambling rules and cryptocurrency regulation
UK Knowledge Collection | ECTEA registration deadline looms, ESG reporting requirements, and biodiversity and business
UK Knowledge Collection | International data transfers, work-related illness, and transparency in procurement
UK Knowledge Collection | UK confirms new digital regulation, employment issues in a downturn, and AI and net zero
Knowledge Collection | UK chancellor's autumn statement, distressed supply chains, and IP strategy
Knowledge Collection | The ESG agenda, diversity and accent bias, and regulating cryptoassets in the UK
Knowledge Collection | Autumn statement predictions, planning for power blackouts in the UK, and the impact of the metaverse
Knowledge Collection | UK government U-turns, energy revenue limits, and transatlantic data adequacy
Knowledge Collection | Competition in digital markets, AI in the workplace, and Decarbonisation Week
Knowledge Collection | Energy saving, hydrogen markets, and digital fairness
Knowledge Collection | UK 'Growth Plan', EU regulatory sunset, and data protection reform
Knowledge Collection | Fiscal event, 'quiet quitting' and the drive to net zero
Knowledge Collection | Artificial intelligence in recruitment, dark patterns and in the built environment
Knowledge Collection | Renewable energy, the 'buy now, pay later' clampdown, and UK crypto-asset consultation
Knowledge Collection | 'Dark patterns', policy challenges of the metaverse, and gene editing in the UK
Knowledge Collection | The future of hydrogen, greenwashing enforcement risk, and the Procurement Bill
Knowledge Collection | Part-year worker holiday pay, sanctions and global supply chains, and regulating crypto and AI
Knowledge Collection | Protected disclosure and philosophical beliefs in the workplace, indicators of sanctions evasion, and labour supply chain risk
Knowledge Collection | Climate change litigation, biodiversity in the EU, and non-fungible tokens in sport
Knowledge Collection | Data protection, audit and governance and residential leasehold reform, and blockchain in M&A
Knowledge Collection | Distressed supply chains, suspicious activity reports, and non-fungible tokens in sport
What to look for in a UK-EU free trade agreement
If the UK and EU agree on the text of a free trade agreement (FTA), here are some of the...