Commercial Client

• Commerciality the Key in Contract Interpretation

  • Posted13 February 2012

  When a dispute arises concerning the meaning of a contract term that is capable of being interpreted in more than one way, the resolution is normally to be found in...

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• Latest Fuel Rates

  • Posted30 November 2009

  HMRC have announced that the rates payable for car fuel (where a mileage rate is paid to company car users for business travel) are as follows from 1 December 2009....

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• Recovering Foreign VAT

  • Posted12 December 2008

  It is commonly thought that within the EU, recovering VAT on expenditure made whilst abroad is merely a matter of calculating the VAT at the applicable rate and claiming it...

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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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