The law relating to the fiduciary duties of directors is stricter than many company directors might think, as a recent case illustrates. The director of a company was given the loan of ‘a second-hand excavator and dumper’ for his personal…
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…
When a claim for damages is made on the basis of ‘loss of a chance’, having good quality expert evidence is essential. Most people know that it is possible to claim damages, where appropriate, for the loss of future…
One of the more frequent problems faced by charity trustees is that of balancing the need for charity investments to produce financial benefits with the desire for them to also produce social benefits. Fortunately, the Charity Commission has now updated…
A High Court decision has confirmed that for the purpose of obtaining an order disqualifying a person from acting as a director on the grounds that they are not a fit person to do so, the burden of proof required…
This article sets out the factors which can lead to your business being prosecuted for corporate manslaughter and the penalties for breaching the legislation. What are the offences? Your business will be guilty of a corporate manslaughter offence if…
If your business has followed the common practice of giving trade samples, your VAT returns will have been prepared on the basis that a single sample could be supplied to a person as a VAT-free supply but where a larger…
Losing a professional or sales team can be a severe blow to a business and it is not uncommon for firms to ‘poach’ such teams. To minimise the risk of such a loss, there are steps that a firm can…
The Supreme Court has ruled that a director of a company that was itself the corporate director of a second company was not a de facto director of the second company. He was not therefore liable for the misuse of…
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has recently taken the first enforcement action of its kind against a blogging network which did not make it clear that companies were paying it to write promotional content about them. The content…
