Commercial Client

• Adjudication Payments Must Be Made First

  • Posted7 May 2019

  Payments under building contracts can be a touchy issue and have led to numerous disputes. Adjudication proceedings are intended to make the process of resolving building disputes simpler, but they...

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• Discrimination and the Burden of Proof – Court of Appeal Gives Guidance

  • Posted2 May 2019

  Once an employee succeeds in establishing facts that arguably support a finding of discrimination, the burden of proving that there was no such discrimination falls upon the employer. The Court...

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• Exchanging Secret Information? Always Get a Non-Disclosure Agreement!

  • Posted29 April 2019

  Businesses that deal or hope to deal with one another often have to put security concerns to one side and share their confidential information. As a High Court case underlined,...

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• Court Ruling Boosts HMRC’s Cross-Border Powers

  • Posted25 April 2019

  National boundaries pose little or no obstacle to tax evasion. The Court of Appeal made that point in an important ruling which has greatly boosted the ability of HM Revenue...

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• Air Quality Targets and the Planning Regime – Court of Appeal Test Case

  • Posted23 April 2019

  The Government is duty-bound by European law to ensure that specified air quality standards are met as quickly as possible. However, the Court of Appeal has ruled in an important...

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• Data Storage Dispute Leads to Emergency High Court Injunction

  • Posted17 April 2019

  Large companies frequently engage outside contractors to assist with storage of the vast quantities of data they produce. However, as a High Court case showed, a breakdown of such commercial...

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