Commercial Client

• Unclear Drafting Leads to Court Appearance to Allocate Repair Bills

  • Posted18 June 2013

  When a landlord granted a lease over a maisonette to a tenant then subsequently alleged that the lease was drafted incorrectly, it took the intervention of the court to decide...

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• Data Processing Law to be Strengthened

  • Posted13 June 2013

  Under proposals put to the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, data protection law looks set to be reformed such that the use of ‘pre-ticked’ boxes...

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• Race Discrimination Claim Was Not Too Late

  • Posted10 June 2013

  The Court of Appeal has ruled (Charles v Tesco Stores Ltd.) that the Employment Tribunal (ET) erred when it struck out an employee’s race discrimination claim on the ground that...

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• Lease Break Error Proves Costly for Tenant

  • Posted7 June 2013

  When a tenant’s lease has a break clause, normally all rent due must be paid in full before the break clause can be activated – even if the rent paid...

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• Accounting Error Leads to Damages for Buyers

  • Posted5 June 2013

  A case has been decided which arose because accounting errors were made by a company which was bought by another company. Some of the management of the company which was...

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• Patent Infringement Claim Denied on Multiple Grounds

  • Posted4 June 2013

  A patent can only be granted when there is novelty in the thing for which the patent is sought. This is why it is critical that one’s novel designs do...

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