Commercial Client

• Failure to Register Renders Property Inaccessible

  • Posted2 May 2012

  When the owner of a property failed to register a right of access, trouble was in store. The claimant owned a property (number 37) which was separated from the...

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• Competition – New Market Investigation

  • Posted1 May 2012

  The aggregates, cement and ready-mixed concrete industries are the latest to come under the spotlight of the Competition Commission. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has identified a number of...

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• Barrister Wins Sexual Orientation Discrimination Claim

  • Posted26 April 2012

  In Bivonas LLP and others v Bennett, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld the decision of the Employment Tribunal (ET) that a gay barrister had been discriminated against on...

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• Functionality Not Protected in Computer Programs

  • Posted23 April 2012

  Computer programs have been at the centre of many legal disputes. Although the program itself is subject to the laws of copyright, creating a program that does what another program...

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• HMRC In Line for £160 Million Windfall After Salary Sacrifice Scheme Rejected

  • Posted20 April 2012

  When a member of staff is on a temporary assignment, they are allowed to receive travel and subsistence payments (within certain limits) free of Income Tax (IT) and National Insurance...

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• Increase in Unpaid Parental Leave Postponed

  • Posted17 April 2012

  Currently, any employee who has completed one year of continuous employment and who ‘has, or expects to have responsibility, for a child’ is entitled to take up to four weeks’...

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