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Commercial Client
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In a classic case of ‘following the money’, determined liquidators have succeeded in tracing £500,000 which was paid out of a company’s bank account shortly before it became insolvent, owing...
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In a further case on the admissibility as evidence before the Employment Tribunal (ET) of an employee’s covert recordings of grievance and disciplinary hearings, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled...
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The Court of Appeal has overturned the decision of the High Court that a firm of accountants had acted negligently when it failed to point out tax saving opportunities to...
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When a couple engaged a firm of architects to manage the refurbishment of their house, the architects inserted a ‘net contribution clause’ into the contract. The intention of the clause...
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A whistleblowing ex-policeman was sacked not because of his protected disclosures but due to his pursuit of complaints in a way that was ‘sufficient to try and to exhaust the...
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published a new guide to protecting personal data, ‘Protecting personal data in online services: learning from the mistakes of others’, which it describes as...
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