The Geldards Procurement team will be holding a series of six-monthly Procurement Briefings starting 11th September 2018.

It is quite unnerving the amount of information we actually give out about ourselves. We let companies know our personal details, social behaviour, consumer preferences, spending habits and even our whereabouts.

One of the key areas of interest amongst our guests was protection of confidential information and trade secrets in the Life Sciences sector.

In a judgment handed down in the Court of Appeal on Tuesday in Cartwright v Venduct Engineering Limited, Lord Justice Coulson considered the applicability of the Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting (‘QOWCS’) regime to multi-defendant personal injury claims.