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The amalgamation of the Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission into a new body, the Competition and Markets Authority, has not attracted much attention. In practical terms, most...
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Property can be owned in joint names as joint tenants, which means that each co-owner owns an undivided share in the whole property (and would therefore be the sole owner...
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The legal principle that the loser pays the costs of the winner in litigation usually holds good, but it is not true in all cases, as a recent intellectual property...
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A Supreme Court ruling has brought clarity to the long-running debate over the liability of employers for damages payable to employees who contract mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is an aggressive and...
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When a 43-year-old Spanish-born man and his wife divorced 15 years after their marriage in Spain, having lived in England since 2004 and raised two children (now 12 and 10)...
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An employee’s effective date of termination (EDT), as defined by the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA), marks the start of the three-month period within which a claim for unfair dismissal...
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