Latest news - Harbottle and Lewis

22 May 2023 - Announcement

Harbottle & Lewis wins at the Tolley’s Taxation Awards 2023

The Harbottle & Lewis Private Client Tax team have been awarded ‘Best Private Client Tax Practice’ at the Tolley’s Taxation Awards 2023 on 18 May at the Royal Lancaster London. The ‘Best Private Client Tax Practice’ category was made up…

17 May 2023 - Announcement

Harbottle & Lewis advises Smart on $95m Series E Funding

Harbottle & Lewis has advised Smart, the London-headquartered fintech transforming the global retirement savings market, on its $95m Series E funding round led by Aquiline Capital Partners LLC, a private investment firm based in New York and London. Existing investors…

04 April 2023 - News

Privacy Laws Help Victims of “Revenge Porn” Tackle Real Cost of Criminal Offending

A successful civil case has highlighted how privacy law is being brought to bear against reported rises in the un-consensual and abusive sharing or sale of private intimate images and films. While the criminal law was clarified in 2015 and…

04 April 2023 - News

Interesting times ahead for privacy law reform in Australia

On 16 February 2023 the Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department released its Privacy Act Review Report 2022 (the “Report”) on Australia’s privacy laws. The review covered a wide range of areas largely relating to data protection issues but also one of…

27 March 2023 -

Tort of Nuisance Protects Privacy at Home

There has been wide reporting of the Supreme Court’s finding that the viewing balcony at the Tate caused an actionable nuisance to residents of the flats opposite, who found hordes of visitors and tourists gazing into, and photographing, their home…

24 March 2023 -

(Partly) Immune to Harassment Claim – Court of Appeal finds for Former King of Spain

The Court of Appeal has found that the former King of Spain, His Majesty Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón, has functional immunity under S.14.1 of the State Immunity Act 1978 to parts of a Harassment claim…