Commercial Client

• Copying of Design Proves Expensive

  • Posted29 May 2015

  Copying the design of another company’s product can prove expensive, as a manufacturer of ice cream vans found out to its cost recently. Although it may be considered that...

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• TUPE – One Employee Was an ‘Organised Grouping’

  • Posted27 May 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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• Government Bans Exclusivity Clauses in Zero Hours Contracts

  • Posted27 May 2015

  The first commencement order made under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, which received the Royal Assent on 26 March 2015, has banned exclusivity clauses in zero hours...

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• Bank Pays for Broken Promise

  • Posted21 May 2015

  A property developer who lost a fortune when his bank pulled the plug and refused to finance his plans to build a luxury home within sight of the Gleneagles golf...

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• Read Your Insurance Policy!

  • Posted19 May 2015

  Disputes over what insurance policies do or do not cover are legion, and a recent survey carried out by the British Insurance Brokers’ Association is a timely reminder of the...

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• Loss Relief Denied on Uncommercial Farming

  • Posted15 May 2015

  The general rule in tax law is that for a trading loss to be set off against other income in order to reduce a tax liability, the trade which incurred...

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