Commercial Client

• Oral Contract Variation Invalid, Rules Supreme Court

  • Posted23 July 2018

  The Supreme Court has decided a case which will be of significance to anyone who is used to making oral variations to contracts. The dispute involved a firm that...

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• Data Protection Latest

  • Posted18 July 2018

  You’d have to be living on Mars not to know that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now in force. Its strict provisions must be complied with (the penalties...

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• Landlords – Children Count Too!

  • Posted10 July 2018

  When a landlord appealed against his prosecution for breaking a planning enforcement notice with regard to a house in multiple occupation (HMO) he owns, he used a rather novel argument...

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• 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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