A recent ECJ ruling will provide welcome news to trade mark proprietors. The ruling confirms that trade mark proprietors who consider that a third party's use of a later-registered trade mark is an infringement of their own mark can potentially…
If you employ a nanny, gardener or other household staff, from April 2013 you are required to join the ‘real time information’ (RTI) scheme set up by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). At the same time, the simplified deduction scheme…
In these straitened times, it is regrettably not uncommon for a buyer to withdraw from the purchase of a property after a legal agreement to purchase has been completed. When this happens, the vendor may be entitled to claim damages…
The EAT has decided that a disclosure of information after employment ends can be protected disclosure under the whistleblowing provisions of the Employment Rights Act 1996. The case confirms that a qualifying disclosure can be protected under whistleblowing law, whether…
A Jewish couple who married in a Jewish ceremony in 2006 and subsequently separated have obtained the approval of the family court to have the marriage dissolved under an agreement mediated by a Rabbi. After examining the procedures which would…
A case has been decided which arose because accounting errors were made by a company which was bought by another company. Some of the management of the company which was sold invested in the buying company, so that the eventual…
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld an employment tribunal's finding that the dismissal of a disabled employee on long-term sick leave was fair and that it would not have been a reasonable adjustment for the employer to exempt the…
Two recent cases highlight the importance for businesses of taking care when negotiating and drafting contracts. In the first, the Court of Appeal held that losses caused by a breach of contract and arising out of a fall in property…
When a divorcee applied to have the financial settlement from her ex-husband amended, she could have little anticipated the problems that would ensue. The woman had divorced her husband in 2005 and the original financial settlement was the subject of…
Just because a term in a contract is breached does not necessarily mean that the contract can be rescinded, as was demonstrated by a dispute between a company that owned land and a wind farm company. The company that owned…
