Figures obtained by independent IT finance provider Syscap indicate that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are increasingly using their powers of distraint to seize the assets of businesses with unpaid VAT bills. Last year, HMRC used these powers 2,401 times,…

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued revised guidance on portable appliance testing in an attempt to dispel the myth that every portable electrical appliance in the workplace needs to be tested once a year. The HSE cautions that…

DFA Law has advised the shareholders of Chesham Holdings Limited on the sale of its entire share capital to Bartleet Enterprises Limited for an undisclosed sum. Established in 1965 and based in the Northern Home Counties, Chesham Insurance acts for…

The High Court has refused summary judgment in a claim to enforce a document which the claimant argued was a performance bond. The court held that the defendant had an arguable case that the document was a guarantee, not a…

When an agricultural equipment manufacturer found that another company had registered a Community Trade Mark (CTM) that was similar to one of its own brand names, it opposed the registration, arguing that the company that had registered it had only…

A recent case dealt with the vexed question of how similar one’s advertising can be to the trade marks of another company before this constitutes an infringement of its intellectual property rights. When supermarket giant ASDA sought to break into…

Businesses should be made aware that making misleading claims in their advertising is illegal. The High Court, in judicial review proceedings, has recently held that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) was entitled to find that a company had breached the…