Commercial Client

• HMRC Can See Accountants’ Tax Advice to Client

  • Posted27 May 2013

  A major principle on which the legal system in England and Wales relies is that the communication between a client and his or her lawyer is private. The courts cannot...

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• Occasional Use Sufficient to Preserve Access Right

  • Posted23 May 2013

  When a road or pathway is regularly used by people and the owner takes no active steps to prevent this or assert control over the land concerned, an ‘easement by...

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• Price Info Swap Anti-Competitive

  • Posted21 May 2013

  The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) can take a very strong line when it discovers that price information is passing between competitors with the result that the competition between them...

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• Agency Workers and the ‘Swedish Derogation’ Exception

  • Posted17 May 2013

  The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (AWR), which implement the EU Agency Workers Directive, came into force on 1 October 2011. Under Regulation 5 of the AWR, agency workers have the...

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• Website Liable When Users Breach Copyright

  • Posted15 May 2013

  The Internet is throwing up a number of examples of cases in which information is ‘recycled’ in breach of copyright and a legal action results. In one such case, the...

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• Pre-Pack Owner Fails to Secure Lease

  • Posted13 May 2013

  Insolvent tenants can be a major headache for landlords. For example, when a corporate tenant goes into administration, the landlord needs to obtain the consent of the administrator, or...

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