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• Banter Doesn’t Create a Contract

  • Posted9 November 2017

  The trouble with light-hearted discussions of important business matters in a social context is that none of those present can really be sure whether any agreements apparently reached are serious...

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• Employee, Worker or Self-Employed Contractor?

  • Posted6 November 2017

  When distinguishing between employees, workers and self-employed contractors, bargaining positions can provide a useful litmus test. That was certainly so in a further case on this topic in which an...

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• Use It or Lose It

  • Posted3 November 2017

  Having a trade mark is all well and good, but a recent case should serve as a reminder that failing to use trade marks may lead to them being lost....

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• Facts Determine Tax Treatment of Dilapidations Payment

  • Posted31 October 2017

  Virtually all leases have clauses which stipulate that when the lease comes to an end, the tenant must leave the premises in the same condition as they were in when...

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• Company Credit Status Must Stand Alone

  • Posted25 October 2017

  You may think that if people of substance are behind a business you have a dispute with, this acts as a source of comfort that any sum you are awarded...

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• Housing Developments – Economic Benefits v Environmental Harm

  • Posted23 October 2017

  Housing developments are almost always controversial and, in deciding whether or not to approve them, planners have to balance environmental and other objections against social and economic benefits. That was...

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