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It’s always rewarding to see the work we do make a real difference to the businesses we support.We recently worked with ...
13/08/2026

It’s always rewarding to see the work we do make a real difference to the businesses we support.

We recently worked with Metrick Limited to help protect their brand and intellectual property, giving them greater confidence in what they’ve worked hard to build.

Your brand is more than just a name or a logo. It’s your reputation, your identity and, ultimately, a valuable business asset.

Putting the right protections in place early can help prevent costly disputes, strengthen your position and give you greater control over how your brand is used as your business grows.

A huge thank you to the Metrick team for trusting Nouveau Legal and for the fantastic feedback.

If you’re building a brand and aren’t sure whether your name, logo or other intellectual property is properly protected, our team can help you understand your options.

Get in touch with Nouveau Legal to discuss how we can help protect what you’re building.

11/08/2026

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s legal battle came down to two separate publications. 📰

Depp lost his UK case against a tabloid over one article. Then he won over $10 million in the US over an op-ed that never even named him directly. Same person, different words, different courts, opposite outcomes.

That’s defamation law in a nutshell - unpredictable, jurisdiction-dependent, and expensive to get wrong.

For your business, the takeaway is much simpler. What you publish about competitors, former employees, ex-partners, or anyone else can cost you if you can’t back it up. That includes an angry LinkedIn post. It includes a spicy Google review.

Tempted to go public about someone? Talk to us first.

10/08/2026

Kim Kardashian was fined $1.2 million over a single Instagram post. 💸

In 2022, she promoted a crypto token without disclosing she’d been paid $250k to post it. The US regulator made an example of her, and the UK is heading the same direction on enforcement.

Here’s the part most people miss: undisclosed advertising isn’t just a problem for the influencer. It’s a legal problem for the brand too. Both sides carry the risk.

The fix isn’t complicated. A proper influencer agreement, one that requires the ad label, sets out approval rights, and spells out exactly what happens if the rules get broken.

If you’re paying creators to promote your business without a contract in place, that’s the first thing to sort.

Message us.

09/08/2026

Ed Sheeran now films every songwriting session he does. Not for social content, but for evidence. 🎥

He’s been taken to court more than once over his biggest tracks, including a UK case in 2022 and a separate US case in 2023, both centred on where his songs actually came from. He won both. Since then, he’s kept the cameras rolling on every session, so there’s a clear record of how each song was written if he’s ever challenged again.

The same lesson applies to any business. When disputes land, it’s rarely about who’s right in the moment - it’s about who can prove it. Meeting notes. Email trails. Signed scopes of work. Version histories showing who built what and when.

If a client disputes an invoice, or a partner disputes ownership of work, your paperwork is your defence. The habit has to exist before the dispute does, not after.

Drop us a message.

27/07/2026

In 1998, a young London assistant signed an NDA so aggressive she wasn’t even allowed to keep a copy of it.

The man it protected was Harvey Weinstein.

Zelda Perkins broke that agreement two decades later, and what she exposed triggered a parliamentary inquiry and a regulatory crackdown on how settlement agreements are drafted in this country.

Lawyers were put on notice. NDAs cannot be used to cover up wrongdoing or stop people reporting crimes.

If your business uses settlement agreements, the line between protecting legitimate confidential information and silencing someone is now a legal one. Crossing it can put the agreement, and the advising solicitor, in the firing line.

Get them drafted properly. Drop us a message.

23/07/2026

A brand paid an influencer £50,000 for a campaign. The content was never posted.

This is one of the most expensive mistakes in modern marketing, and it’s entirely avoidable.

Influencer contracts need to specify exactly what you’re buying: platforms, number of posts, timing, content approval, usage rights, and what happens if delivery fails.

Without those terms in writing, you have no comeback, and £50,000 simply disappears.

A well-drafted influencer agreement costs a fraction of the price of one bad campaign.

If your business is working with influencers or content creators, drop us a message and we’ll help you draft your contract.

21/07/2026

You’ve just used AI to generate your logo, website images, and marketing content. But who actually owns it?

That’s the legal question most businesses haven’t even thought to ask yet.

Under UK law, the copyright position on AI-generated content is genuinely uncertain.

If a human made meaningful creative decisions in directing the output, there may be a claim to ownership. But for your most important brand assets, that’s not a risk worth taking.

Commission a human creator instead, with a clear IP assignment clause in place.

That way, your protection is certain, not a legal grey area waiting to be tested.

If you’re relying on AI for key brand assets, now is the time to get clarity. Reach out before uncertainty becomes a real risk.

19/07/2026

Getty Images took Stability AI to court over its Stable Diffusion model. The court ruled the trained AI model wasn’t a copy of the photos used to train it. 🤖

But Getty did win on a narrower point: limited trademark infringement, where AI-generated images carried Getty’s watermarks.

The takeaway for business owners: train your AI models on your own data carefully, and protect your trademarks aggressively, because that’s where the real legal protection landed.

Don’t assume copyright law will stop competitors from imitating your work if you’re using AI in your business.

Confused about where you stand? We’ll spot the risks before they become a problem. Drop us a message.

16/07/2026

Lucy Letby’s crimes were reported 32 times before anyone listened. 🚨

NHS doctors raised the alarm about Letby for over a year. The hospital sided with her, and the doctors were told to apologise.

UK whistleblowing law is still stuck in 1998. It protects qualifying workers who speak up, but the legal test is technical, and the burden of proof falls on the worker.

The government published its long-awaited review of the framework in July 2025.

Every business needs a clear whistleblowing policy, a confidential reporting channel, and a culture that treats early warnings as a gift, not a threat.

Ignoring whistleblowers in three recent scandals has reportedly cost over £400 million.

If you don’t have a proper whistleblowing policy in place, drop us a message. 📩

16/07/2026

Over 750 P&O Ferries seafarers were sacked on Zoom in March 2022, replaced the same day by cheaper agency workers. 🚢

From October 2026, the Employment Rights Act 2025 makes it automatically unfair to dismiss an employee for refusing changes to pay, pensions, shifts, hours, or time off.

This ban covers “fire and replace”, meaning you cannot replace employees with agency workers or contractors doing substantially the same job.

Get this wrong after October 2026, and you’re facing uncapped compensation.

If you’re restructuring contracts or bringing in new employees, make sure you speak to a solicitor first. Now is the time to get clarity. Reach out before uncertainty becomes a real risk. 📩

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