Commercial Client

• Innocent Hotelier Trapped by Corporate Failure

  • Posted2 April 2014

  In a bitter example of how an innocent party can be left to carry the financial can following a corporate failure, the owner of a hotel who paid £110,000 for...

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• LLP Tax Changes to Net £300 Million

  • Posted1 April 2014

  Businesses that have constituted themselves as limited liability partnerships (LLPs) will greet without enthusiasm the announcement by Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander that the Government ‘will be closing the loophole that...

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• Changes to Employment Law – 2014

  • Posted28 March 2014

  Changes to employment law and practice are normally implemented in either April or October in order to make life easier for employers, who must ensure that their policies and procedures...

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• Religion or Belief Discrimination – The Correct Comparator

  • Posted27 March 2014

  A practising Christian who was dismissed from his job as a paediatric consultant after he refused to accept recommendations that he refrain from using religious references in his workplace communications...

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• Courts Show Value of Registration of Trade Marks

  • Posted24 March 2014

  The economic value of a well-known brand having a registered trade mark is illustrated by two recent court cases involving British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), US IT giant Microsoft and free...

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• Government Acts to Reduce Company Formation Bottleneck

  • Posted20 March 2014

  The use of certain names for companies etc. has been restricted for a very long time – the restrictions on ‘sensitive’ names being intended to reduce the likelihood that a...

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