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After an eight-year legal battle, the European Court of Justice has confirmed that the ‘Gold Bunny’ packaging used by chocolatier Lindt is insufficiently distinct to warrant registration as a three-dimensional...
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The Government has published its response to a consultation on plans to introduce a new kind of employment status – ‘employee owner’. Under the proposals, employee owners would relinquish some...
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An executive has been found in breach of his contract of employment with his former employer after he leaked a confidential report during a luncheon appointment with a business contact. ...
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It is generally considered that organisations which have charitable objects (such as the relief of poverty) as their core purpose will qualify to be treated as charities. A recent tax...
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The collapse of Farepak in 2006 received widespread press coverage, with thousands of families facing the loss of their ‘Christmas Club’ savings. In all, more than 100,000 investors lost a...
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In Scott v Northumbria Probation Board, a probation officer whose unfair dismissal claim was rejected by the Employment Tribunal (ET) has seen that decision quashed by the Employment Appeal Tribunal...
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