Commercial Client

• Developing Others’ Ideas Can Itself Be Novel and Inventive

  • Posted27 April 2017

  Patents that merely repeat pre-existing ideas are invalid – there has to be something novel about an invention to secure patent protection. However, that does not mean that developments based...

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• Claiming VAT on Cars – New Cases Give Hope

  • Posted24 April 2017

  Anyone who has tried to recover the VAT on the purchase of a car, particularly an expensive one, will know that few things are as likely to prompt a VAT...

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• Landlord Repairs Must Be Reasonable, Not Most Economical

  • Posted21 April 2017

  A long leasehold tenant has had mixed fortunes in opposing a charge for more than £55,000 after her council landlord undertook a major programme of repairs to the block in...

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• Court of Appeal Rejects Pimlico Plumbers’ Appeal in Employment Status Case

  • Posted19 April 2017

  There have been a number of recent cases looking at the precise nature of the employment status of those working for employers who like their operatives to appear to clients...

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• Knife-Edge Timing Solves £2.4 Million Construction Contract Dispute

  • Posted13 April 2017

  In a striking piece of knife-edge timing, a property developer has convinced the High Court that it was reassigned rights under a construction contract just before a multi-million-pound dispute was...

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• Customer Details Email Leads to Fine for Ex-Employee

  • Posted11 April 2017

  When an employee left her recruitment agency employer, she took the dubious step of emailing to her private email address the personal data of about 100 of her clients and...

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