Commercial Client

• Funding Failure – Reasonable Endeavours Clause Not in Point

  • Posted3 April 2013

  When demand for flats dried up for a property developer, it became unable to meet the required level of pre-sales on the development to secure continued financing for the project....

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• Termination Payments Taxable if Not Damages

  • Posted28 March 2013

  When a new executive fell out with the chief executive officer of the company he worked for, his employment was terminated without notice. In such circumstances, a breach of...

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• Construction Company Fined Over Worker’s Death

  • Posted26 March 2013

  A Surrey-based construction company has been ordered to pay £210,000 in fines and costs after an employee died from injuries he sustained in an explosion on a construction site in...

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• Name Confusion Puts Trade Mark at Risk

  • Posted25 March 2013

  When a business profits because it gives the appearance of being (or its products appear to be those of) another business, it is effectively taking the goodwill of the other...

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• Realism Essential in Damages Claims

  • Posted22 March 2013

  When an offer to settle a legal dispute is made (called a ‘Part 36 offer’ by lawyers) and the court subsequently orders payment of a higher figure (in which case...

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• HMRC Win Benefits in Kind Fight With LLP

  • Posted19 March 2013

  A recent tax decision could spell trouble for limited liability partnerships (LLPs). It involved an LLP which purchased and provided cars and fuel for the use of partners in...

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