Commercial Client

• Directors’ Remuneration – Announcement

  • Posted5 November 2012

  The Government has published its draft rules on directors’ remuneration, which are scheduled to take effect from October 2013. The new rules will apply to companies listed on the...

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• ‘Passing Off’ Tests

  • Posted2 November 2012

  When another firm uses a trading style that you think is a copy of yours, you might consider that an action for ‘passing off’ is appropriate. Passing off occurs...

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• Review of the Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure

  • Posted2 November 2012

  One of the outcomes of last year’s Resolving Workplace Disputes consultation was a consensus that the current Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure needed revision. The Government therefore requested Mr Justice...

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• Supreme Court Equal Pay Landmark

  • Posted26 October 2012

  Scores of women who worked for a local authority have won an equal pay ruling in the Supreme Court that will have serious ramifications for employers as it effectively extends...

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• Judge Rules on Recession-Hit Developers’ Contract Dispute

  • Posted25 October 2012

  Property developers who fell out when a large-scale residential and commercial project was hit by the credit crunch have had their contract dispute resolved by a High Court judge. ...

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• Accountants Owed No Duty to Creditors After Corporate Collapse

  • Posted24 October 2012

  An accountancy firm, one of whose corporate clients was dissolved last year, did not owe a duty of care to an indirect investor who was left nursing losses of more...

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