Most people will now be aware of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) ruling, in Interflora v Marks & Spencer (Case C-323/09), on the circumstances in which an advertiser will be liable for trade mark infringement when it uses someone else’s registered trade mark as a keyword for search engine adverts. There were aspects of that decision which raised questions over how the ruling would be applied in practice...

From 6 April this year, whenever a deed of variation changing the terms of a will is signed so that some of the estate goes to a charity, the charity must provide the executors with a written acknowledgement for HM Revenue & Customs that the charity has been informed of the variation. Such variations are very rare at present but may become more common in the future – why is that?