Commercial Client

• Protection for Developers Proposed

  • Posted19 February 2013

  Property developers often spend very considerable sums in advance of seeking and obtaining planning permissions, let alone before any work on the development site commences. Recently, several residents’ groups...

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• Territorial Limits of Union Recognition

  • Posted15 February 2013

  In Netjets Management Limted v Central Arbitration Committee, the operator of a fleet of private business jets has failed to convince a judge that it is not obliged to recognise...

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• Insurers Fail in Attempt to Limit Theft Claim

  • Posted13 February 2013

  Employee theft is often an exclusion in commercial insurance policies. When fashion retailer Ted Baker found that it had suffered a major loss due to employee theft of stock,...

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• Purple is the Colour

  • Posted11 February 2013

  Cadbury, the makers of Dairy Milk and other popular chocolate bars, has been successful with a claim that the colour of purple the company uses for the wrappings of its...

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• Collective Redundancy Consultation – Draft Regulations Published

  • Posted11 February 2013

  The Government has published the draft Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (Amendment) Order 2013, which makes changes to the rules relating to collective redundancy consultation. Where...

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• Whistleblowing Partner Not Protected, Rules Court of Appeal

  • Posted8 February 2013

  A ‘worker’ who acts as a ‘whistleblower’ – disclosing breaches of the law – receives statutory protection under the law if he or she suffers detrimental treatment as a result...

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