United Kingdom: Terrorism, Homeland Security & Defence

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UK National Security and Investment Regime: Government Publishes Latest Annual Report
The UK government's 2025/26 annual report reveals significant shifts in the National Security and Investment Act's operation, with notification volumes climbing 15.8% while intervention rates drop to historic lows. Despite longer review timelines and increased scrutiny of certain investor origins, 98.9% of transactions proceeded without government intervention, raising questions about the regime's scope and effectiveness.
United Kingdom Government
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Goodwin Procter LLP
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Our Armed Forces Are Only As Strong As The Industry That Stands Behind Them
The UK Government's £298bn Defence Investment Plan signals major reforms to defence procurement, promising simplified acquisition routes and stronger industry partnerships. As the legal framework evolves through the Procurement Act 2023 and planned reforms to Single Source Contract Regulations, businesses face both unprecedented opportunities and complex compliance challenges in one of the most strategically important periods for UK defence in a generation.
United Kingdom Government
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Travers Smith LLP
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The Patent You Can Never Publish: How The Government's Secret Powers Can Trap Your Invention.
The U.K. government possesses extraordinary powers to impose secrecy orders on privately developed defense technology through patent applications, restricting publication, commercialization, and even foreign filings. With over 1,150 active secrecy directions currently in force and declassification rates collapsing since 2016, defense technology companies face growing risks when seeking patent protection for innovations they have independently funded and developed.
United Kingdom IP
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Winston Taylor
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Data Sharing Under ECCTA: A Potentially Powerful But Underused Tool In The Fight Against Economic Crime
To give regulated firms the confidence and ability to share information, the provisions disapply both obligations of confidentiality and civil liability when a firm uses the new information sharing gateways. In practical terms, this means that a regulated firm sharing customer information with another regulated firm under these provisions would have a defence to a breach of confidence claim or other civil action from the customer concerned.
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Macfarlanes LLP
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