After a long pursuit from the Federal Trade Commission, AT&T, the world’s largest telecommunications company has agreed to a $60 million settlement with the FTC over its fake unlimited data ‘bait and switch’ scam. The scam saw AT&T baiting subscribers with unlimited data, trapped them in multi-year contracts with punishing termination fees, and then scammed…
Highly regarded law commentator and Preiskel & Co Consultant, David Allen Green, gave the first of a planned series of Brexit seminars to leading individuals from the legal, business, political and media worlds on Friday 25 October 2019. At the seminar, entitled “Brexit: Where are we now?”, David explained the key reasons why Brexit has…
The EU Court of Justice (EUCJ) recently ruled that a default consent to data processing is not in compliance with EU data protection laws and therefore does not amount to ‘valid consent’. At the core of the EUCJ decision was the interpretation of what constitutes ‘valid consent’ with regards to a pre-ticked checkbox used by…
As currently being announced in the press, an amended draft text for a Brexit Withdrawal Agreement has been agreed between the UK and the European Union. Next is the vote by Parliament this weekend, where it is far from certain that the proposed bill will receive the majority support necessary to progress through the legislature.…
Drinks and discussion regarding the groundbreaking Supreme Court Decision “R (on the application of Miller) (Appellant) v The Prime Minister (Respondent) Cherry and others (Respondents) v Advocate General for Scotland (Appellant) (Scotland)” The event will be hosted at Preiskel & Co’s Offices at 18:30 on the 25th September 2019. The session will be led by…
Tim Cowen will be speaking at the Big Data & Competition Law event on 15 October 2019 in Brussels.
Please see Tim’s speaker profile here.
If you would like to attend, please click here for a 20% discount to your ticket price.
Preiskel & Co Partner, Daniel Preiskel, will be speaking at Federation of Communication Services (“FCS”) Comms Provider ’19 on Thursday 19 September 2019.
Daniel will deliver a talk on the European Electronic Communications Code, which promises to be fascinating.
Preiskel & Co is delighted to report that our Consultant, Philip Goldenberg, has had an article published by The Independent. The article, entitled “This is the ‘humble address’ that could end Boris Johnson’s Brexit coup”, is a fascinating analysis of whether one archaic mechanism, the humble address, could be used to counter Boris Johnson’s decision, yesterday,…
We are delighted to have played a part in the making of Gurinder Chadha’s latest feature “Blinded by the Light”, which has been released in cinemas all over the UK today (9 August), and is already heading towards being the feel-good summer movie of 2019. Hannah Leader, Peter Dally, and Matthew Fox of Preiskel &…
The European Commission has fined Canon €28 million after finding that it had partially implemented an acquisition of Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (“TMSC”) before merger control notification. The EU operates a compulsory notification system, meaning parties must notify the European Commission of plans to merge before the transaction is completed. In this scenario, TMSC had…
