Commercial Client

• Estate Agent Fined After Contractor Killed in Fall

  • Posted9 July 2012

  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has fined a firm of estate agents after a contractor who was working for them was killed when he fell from a roof. ...

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• Fraud and the Director

  • Posted6 July 2012

  With the economy still struggling, dubious business practices can be expected to be more common than normal, as is evidenced by the expulsion from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in...

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• Reform of the Collective Redundancy Rules

  • Posted5 July 2012

  Following a call for evidence on the operation of the rules that apply to consulting with employees when collective redundancies are necessary, the Government has published a consultation outlining its...

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• Dismissal on Account of Long-Term Sickness

  • Posted28 June 2012

  When an employee is dismissed for a reason relating to their capability to perform the work for which they were employed, whether or not the dismissal is fair or unfair...

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• Tenant Denied Right to Break Lease Because of Late Payments

  • Posted26 June 2012

  A tenant that was seeking to break a lease has surprisingly been found by the court to have failed to give a valid break notice because it had not paid...

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• Style the Clincher in Copyright Case

  • Posted25 June 2012

  There is a common belief that because something can be viewed on or copied from the Internet, it is free for anyone to use. This is not the case. Nor...

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