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• Employee or Self-Employed – Mutuality of Obligation

  • Posted2 December 2007

  Employees, or their dependants, are entitled to claim damages for injury caused by a workplace accident if: • there was a duty of care owed...

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• The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006

  • Posted6 December 2006

  Owners and managers of commercial premises, employers whose workers use, install, remove, maintain or demolish premises that may contain asbestos and businesses providing construction or building services are all affected...

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• Fixed Term Contracts: Employers Take Note

  • Posted28 July 2006

  On 10 July, an employee workign on a fixed-term contract might have become (by operation of the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 20020 a permanent employee . ...

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• VAT Recovered on Motor Car

  • Posted24 July 2006

  The recent case in which the court ruled that a small company should be allowed to claim a deduction for the VAT on the purchase price of a car has...

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• Advice on Acquisitions Deductible

  • Posted1 July 2005

  One common area of dispute between companies and the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is that of deductibility of expenses. One of the hottest areas of dispute is often whether...

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• Directors Who Compete Face Court Wrath

  • Posted5 July 2004

  The courts have again shown that they will crack down on directors who put their own interests before their fiduciary duties as directors of the company, to the extent of...

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