Commercial Client

• Debt Management Company Investigation Brings Bans

  • Posted5 July 2018

  There was a certain irony to a recent report that the directors of a debt management company – set up to offer advice and assistance to those with debt problems...

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• Disability Discrimination – An Expectation to Work Long Hours

  • Posted2 July 2018

  In United First Partners Research v Carreras, an employee who had returned to work after he was injured in a cycling accident claimed that a ‘requirement’ that he work long...

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• The Taxation of Termination Payments

  • Posted29 June 2018

  The rules governing the taxation of termination payments have been tightened with effect from 6 April 2018 by means of legislation to amend Chapter 3, Part 6 of the Income...

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• Oral Contract Existed as a Matter of Fact

  • Posted26 June 2018

  When a decision is made as to what the facts are in a particular case, the judgment regarding those facts is normally accepted as not being able to be revisited...

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• Software Company Fails to Lock Out Customer

  • Posted20 June 2018

  One aspect of intellectual property (IP) rights that is often not given much thought, but which can be extremely important indeed, is what happens when a licence to use comes...

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• Director Address Disclosures – Changes

  • Posted18 June 2018

  Recent changes have made it easier for company directors to withhold disclosure of their private addresses in publicly filed documents. Prior to 2009, the usual residential address of all company...

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