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• Legal Fees Allowable Against Tax

  • Posted23 January 2013

  When a family partnership faced a legal challenge, the partners argued that the legal costs involved were allowable business expenses. The partnership spent more than £36,000 on legal fees...

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• New Guidance on Penalties for Competition Law Breaches

  • Posted22 January 2013

  Following an earlier consultation on proposed alterations to its guidance on penalties for breaching competition law, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has published revised guidance on how it will...

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• TUPE Changes – Government Launches Consultation

  • Posted18 January 2013

  The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) Regulations 2006 extended the scope of the protection available to employees when a business or undertaking changes hands and aimed to provide...

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• ECHR Rules on Protection of Political Beliefs

  • Posted17 January 2013

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that United Kingdom legislation is deficient as it does not protect employees, including those with less than one year’s service, from...

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• ECHR Rules in Religious Discrimination Claims

  • Posted15 January 2013

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has handed down its rulings in four UK cases in which Christian employees claimed to have suffered discrimination at work on account of...

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• Use Not Appearance Determines Whether Property Qualifies as a House

  • Posted15 January 2013

  The meaning of the word ‘house’ has been the subject of legal debate on many occasions. Many of the debates have had their origin in the Leasehold Reform Act 1967,...

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