Commercial Client

• ‘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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• 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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• Temporary Occupation Justifies Multiple Rate Relief Claim

  • Posted22 October 2012

  A vacant commercial property qualifies for 100 per cent rate relief for the first three months after it becomes empty (six months if it is an industrial property). Once it...

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• British Airways Vindicated in Discrimination and Unfair Dismissal Case

  • Posted19 October 2012

  In Jamaluddin v British Airways & Others, the Employment Tribunal (ET) found that a British Airways (BA) pilot who had his airside pass withdrawn after he was arrested for alleged...

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