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• Employee Copyright Agreement Achieved Legitimate Aim

  • Posted18 January 2019

  Many employers require their staff to sign copyright agreements by which they give up their intellectual property rights to designs or other works created in the course of their employment....

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• All Change for VAT on Vouchers

  • Posted15 January 2019

  If your business issues vouchers, you should be aware that the VAT regime will change significantly on 1 January 2019. From that time, the VAT treatment of a voucher...

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• Late Appeal is Void Appeal for Property Owner

  • Posted10 January 2019

  When the owner of a property that had been designated as a house in multiple occupation (HMO) by his local council in 2001 chose to challenge that ruling some 15...

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• Director Who Flouted Ban Given Jail Sentence

  • Posted7 January 2019

  Ignoring a court ruling is a foolish strategy at any time – as a man who continued to act as a director after having been banned from doing so found...

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• Confidential Information Leakage Stopped by Injunction

  • Posted2 January 2019

  One of the biggest dangers when a senior employee leaves an organisation is the ease with which they can spirit away confidential information of importance to the business. Data is...

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• Job Interviews and the Risks of Asking Off the Cuff Discriminatory Questions

  • Posted28 December 2018

  Questions asked of job applicants at interview should be carefully considered in advance and formulated with the benefit of legal advice. In one case where that signally did not happen,...

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