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An accountancy firm, one of whose corporate clients was dissolved last year, did not owe a duty of care to an indirect investor who was left nursing losses of more...
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The amalgamation of the Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission into a new body, the Competition and Markets Authority, has not attracted much attention. In practical terms, most...
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A Supreme Court ruling has brought clarity to the long-running debate over the liability of employers for damages payable to employees who contract mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is an aggressive and...
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Below cost selling is a well-known tactic for weakening competitors or protecting market share. Because it can be effective in discouraging competition in the long term, the competition regulators in...
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Legal professional privilege is a set of rules of evidence that allows a party to a dispute not to disclose certain categories of documents that are relevant to the dispute....
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Money laundering legislation requires banks to freeze transactions pending clearance if there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the funds concerned in the transaction may be the proceeds of crime...
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