Susan Singleton

Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London firm, Singletons which specialises in competition law, intellectual property law, IT/ecommerce and general commercial law. Articled at Nabarro Nathanson, she joined Slaughter and May’s EC/Competition Law Department on qualifying in 1985, moving to Bristows in March 1988, where she remained until founding her own firm in 1994. Since then she had advised over 600 clients. According to the Chambers and Partners Legal Directory she is one of the UK’s leading Lawyers. In 2002 she acted for the claimant in the first damages action for breach of the EU competition rules to come before the English courts Arkin v Borchard and Others. Her clients range from major plcs and institutions to small start up businesses.

She is author of over 30 law books on topics such as internet and ecommerce law, competition law, commercial agency law, data protection legislation and intellectual property and writes legal articles monthly for Consumer Law Today, IT Law Today as well as regularly for Solicitors Journal, Purchasing and Supply Law Briefing and other publications. She speaks at about 50 conference a year in the UK and abroad and in the last six months has given 1 – 2 day training courses in Iran, Austria, Germany and Holland in areas such as contract law, data protection and intellectual property, competition and commercial law fields, both in the UK and abroad.

She is Vice Chairman of the Competition Law Association, is a member of the Licensing Executives Society (EC/Laws Committee) and serves on the Contracts Group of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS). Since September 2005 she has sat as an independent member on the Direct Marketing Authority.

Books by this author:

	Buying Professional Services This Report provides essential tips and guidance when choosing and using lawyers and other professional advisers and helps ensure you better understand the process and what exactly you are buying
	Competition Law Compliance: 2008 This Special Briefing describes UK competition law referring, where relevant, to EU competition law, to Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty of Rome. It aims above all to be practical and concentrates on what is allowed and what is not, what is advised to ensure compliance and how to make complaints under the Chapter I and Chapter II prohibitions in the Competition Act 1998.
	Data Protection Law for Employers: 2008 This briefing seeks to summarise the application of the Act to the employment discipline. It concentrates on the areas, which are useful and practical to employers by examining the Information Commissioner’s Office code of practice. It answers many of the mundane, day-to-day data protections issues that employers and those who are responsible for personal data need to know.
	E-mail - Legal Issues: 2008 An updated version of this best-selling report. It explains clearly where the risks lie and how to establish a sensible policy.
	Freedom of Information Act in Practice: 2008 The Freedom of Information Act gives companies and individuals important powers to request information from public bodies. Are you equipped to take advantage and to protect yourself?
	Websites and the Law 2nd edition Is your company/client website legal? Do you know what information you are required by law to put on it? What if your domain name is too close to someone else’s? What if someone is diverting people from your website to theirs? What are the laws on copying material from websites? What can you do with people’s personal data sent to your website? This report deals with all the practical legal issues which arise with websites – both those sites which sell goods or services and those which advertise.