Commercial Client

• Entering Into a Partnership? Get it in Writing!

  • Posted10 September 2015

  Business partners who failed to define their working relationship in writing – instead reaching agreements orally over bottles of red wine in a pub – paid the price when a...

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• TUPE – Organised Grouping of Employees

  • Posted7 September 2015

  A service provision change under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) takes place when, immediately before the change, there is an ‘organised grouping’ of employees that...

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• Counterfeit Goods Couple to Forfeit £1.5 Million

  • Posted2 September 2015

  To many people, buying or selling a ‘knock-off copy’ of a branded item may seem a relatively minor matter but, given that brand owners invest billions of pounds annually in...

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• Liability Limitation Valid, Rules Court

  • Posted28 August 2015

  When a loss is caused to one party by another, the party suffering the loss will often seek redress (damages) from the person or organisation that caused it. The process...

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• Court of Appeal Rejects Unison’s Employment Tribunal Fees Challenge

  • Posted27 August 2015

  When Employment Tribunal (ET) fees were introduced in July 2013, the public service trade union Unison was quick to challenge the lawfulness of the new regime on the basis that...

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• NFU Mutual SafetyHub for Small Farms

  • Posted25 August 2015

  According to figures collated by NFU Mutual, smaller farming businesses, whose workers invariably carry out a wide variety of tasks, often in poor weather conditions, are still prone to significant...

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