Commercial Client

• Performers’ Rights Enhanced by WIPO

  • Posted3 December 2012

  The World Intellectual Property Organisation has agreed a new international treaty, which, when ratified by 30 or more of the 48 signatory countries, will significantly enhance the rights of performers...

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• Right to Light Does Not Pass on Conveyance

  • Posted30 November 2012

  Contrary to popular belief, there is no ‘right to light’ as such under English law, but where light has been enjoyed continuously and without interruption for 20 years, an ‘easement’...

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• Deposed Council Chief Executive Was Lawfully Dismissed

  • Posted27 November 2012

  The procedure for making council employees redundant has been examined in the case of a former chief executive who was dismissed after her local authority switched to an elected mayor...

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• How Much Better Are Best Endeavours Than Reasonable Endeavours?

  • Posted22 November 2012

  Clauses requiring a party to a contract to use ‘reasonable endeavours’ or ‘best endeavours’ in its performance are common, and while ‘best’ clearly implies something beyond ‘reasonable’, the lack of...

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• Revenue Blitz Increases CGT Recovery

  • Posted19 November 2012

  A blitz on Capital Gains Tax (CGT) evasion in 2011 has led to a huge increase in the amount of unpaid CGT identified. More than £105 million of unpaid CGT...

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• Trade Mark Challenges to Become Easier?

  • Posted16 November 2012

  A recent decision of the General Court of the European Union (GCEU) has seemingly altered the previously understood position as regards the use of similar trade marks. The case...

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