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Update | Sports law: doping and lifetime bans, and ambush marketing

Oliver Hunt reviews the decision by the Court for Arbitration in Sport forcing the 'British Olympic Association to withdraw its bye-law on lifetime bans for athletes 'convicted of doping and on the UK's new approach to ambush marketing

Warnings over new wave of ACS:Law type 'pay up or else' letters

Citizens Advice to fill legal expertise gap and help consumers respond

Should a breach of trust be 'serious' to end an agency agreement?

The claim against fashionable shoemaker Crocs by its former UK agents that 'the company wrongly ended their agreement could reinvent the rules on 'termination of an agency relationship, says Stephen Sidkin

European briefing | Complying with information requirements online

Few would disagree that handing over a letter counts as communicating information, even though the recipient must open it to know about its content, 'so why not consider hyperlinks in the same way, asks Paul Stanley NO

Folk law | It's all Sir Walter Raleigh's fault

Andrew Lugger traces the history of anti-smoking legislation, 'from the early days to the Health Act 2006

Are the UK's sanctions against Iran's state bank legitimate?

The Supreme Court has granted private shareholders of Bank Mellat permission to intervene in the bank's challenge to HM Treasury over the financial restrictions order it has imposed on it, which they say is unlawful and in breach of international public policy. Sarosh Zaiwalla explores their arguments

EU leaders in deal on unitary patent system

Cable hails single patent valid across 25 European countries

Insolvency update: rent as an insolvency expense

When does rent become an expense of insolvency? 'Denise Fawcett examines 'the latest developments