Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Brethertons solicitors celebrates its success at winning the highly coveted Law Society Excellence Award in Practice Management 2011.
The Excellence Awards recognise the outstanding achievement by legal professionals at firms of all sizes across England and Wales, in categories ranging from community investment to client service, with new awards including the ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
International trade presents growth opportunities for all types of businesses both in the UK and overseas. Many businesses are exploring how to supply goods and services into foreign markets, especially now with the emerging economies of India and China. An increasing number of overseas businesses have also in recent years ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
The Bribery Act came into force on 1 July 2011. Section 7 of the Act makes it an offence for a commercial organisation to fail to prevent bribery. A business can provide a defence by showing that it had in place adequate procedures to prevent bribery from taking place, however, ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Competition law provides stiff penalties for those who transgress. Where the transgressor is a company, the question was recently asked as to whether the company could recover the cost of legal sanctions applied by the court from the directors who made the decisions that led to the company acting illegally.
Supermarket ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Copyright is a right that exists as soon as you create the copyright material. You do not have to apply for it. There are some exceptions to copyright, but unless one of these applies, anyone else using your material without your permission is infringing your copyright. The damages receivable for ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Those who use ‘keywords’ for the purposes of improving the results of searches on the Internet should take note of the recent opinion of the Advocate General on this issue.
The case involved Interflora and Marks and Spencer (M&S). M&S had used ‘interflora’ as a keyword on its website, so that ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
A plant hire company has been fined £7,000 and ordered to pay costs of £10,000 following an accident on a building site in which an excavator bucket filled with concrete fell off the arm of the machine supplied by the company and crushed the site foreman to death.
The plant hire ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011, which came into force on 26 May 2011, make certain changes to the laws that cover direct marketing by electronic means.
Serious breaches of the rules surrounding the sending of unwanted text messages, emails and marketing telephone calls can now lead ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are becoming increasingly common. For example, all of the ‘Big Four’ accounting firms have been LLPs for several years now.
Recently, the acrimonious bust-up of an LLP led to one of the ex-members suing the others for unfair prejudice after he had been locked out of ...
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