Commercial Client

• Children's Activity Lake Planning Permission Survives Noise Objections

  • Posted18 January 2021

  The noise of playing children screaming and shouting is purgatory to some but, in a High Court case, such concerns were not enough to convince a judge that planning permission...

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• Low-Paid Workers' Union Triumphs in COVID-19 Health and Safety Test Case

  • Posted14 January 2021

  Many low-paid workers who have an essential role in keeping the nation moving are at particularly high risk from the COVID-19 pandemic. In a ground-breaking decision, the High Court came...

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• High Court Ruling Underlines the Benefits of English Arbitration Clauses

  • Posted12 January 2021

  As a guideline High Court decision emphasised, the greatest advantage of including English arbitration clauses in commercial contracts is that they prevent litigation from proliferating around the world and focus...

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• Commercial Tenants – How Well Do You Understand Your Obligations?

  • Posted8 January 2021

  Before signing up to a commercial lease, tenants should always take expert legal advice to ensure they truly understand the obligations they are taking on. The point was powerfully made...

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• Succession Planning Good, Age Discrimination Bad – EAT Ruling

  • Posted6 January 2021

  Any organisation that does not have an effective system of succession planning in place must face an uncertain future. As a ruling of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) underlined, however,...

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• Advent of Artificial Intelligence Poses Fundamental Questions in Patents Case

  • Posted4 January 2021

  Is the capacity to invent an exclusively human quality? Or has the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) rendered that proposition obsolete? Those fundamental issues took centre stage in a unique...

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