Commercial Client

• Employers – Are You Treating Misconduct Cases Consistently?

  • Posted14 November 2018

  Some forms of workplace misconduct may appear so serious as to obviously justify dismissal as a matter of common sense. However, as an instructive decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal...

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• Resolving Disputes in the Boardroom

  • Posted8 November 2018

  Boardroom conflict can often mean directors falling into opposing camps, with deadlock the result. As a High Court decision shows, taking legal advice is often the only means of achieving...

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• Changes to the Definition of HMO – Landlords Take Note

  • Posted5 November 2018

  With burgeoning numbers of students and a continuing housing shortage, residential property for letting has been a popular investment for several years. Many such investments are in houses in...

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• Debranded Goods Still Protected by Trade Mark Law

  • Posted2 November 2018

  Products sell for widely differing prices in different national markets and that creates the opportunity for goods to be transferred from a low-price market to a higher-price one – a...

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• Whistleblowing – Information or Allegation?

  • Posted30 October 2018

  In Cavendish Munro Professional Risks Management Limited v Geduld, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) established the principle that, for the purposes of the whistleblowing provisions of the Employment Rights Act...

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• VAT – ‘Pay Now, Appeal Later’ Rule Receives Supreme Court Blessing

  • Posted25 October 2018

  Unless they can show that they would suffer hardship as a result, traders who wish to challenge assessments to VAT are first required to pay, or at least deposit, the...

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