‘Sexism in the City’ case ends in settlement for female underwriter

“15,000 jobs to go”

“15,000 jobs to go”

“15,000 jobs to go”

£120,000 Penalty for Asbestosis Risk

£200,000 for engineer in asbestos trauma

£50,000 job “lost because of baby”

£790,000 payout for race case builder

£790,000 payout for race case builder

£8,000 race bias damages apt

15,000 jobs to go

90-YEAR-OLD MAKING WILLS EXCLUDING FAMILY

A 56% rise in tribunal claims: time to worry?

A toolkit for private share acquisitions

A woman whose weight ballooned

Academy Trusts

ACAS Model Workplace

ACAS launches early conciliation service

ACQUISITIONS

Adjudication – adjudicators

Adjudication – jurisdiction – installation of shop fittings

Admiralty, Commercial & Mercantile Courts

Advantages and disadvantages of arbitration over court proceedings

ADVICE : BREACH OF CONTRACT : DUTY OF CARE

AFFORDABLE HOUSING : PLANNING INSPECTORS : PLANNING PERMISSION

Age discrimination

Age discrimination

Age discrimination compensation

Age discrimination compensation

Ageism is on the rise at work

Ageism is on the rise at work

Agreement not signed

AGREEMENTS : INTERPRETATION : SHARE TRANSFERS

AGREEMENTS: COMMISSION: SPORTS AGENTS: TRANSFER: EFFECTIVE CAUSE OF AGREEMENTS: TRANSFER OF FOOTBALL PLAYERS :FIFA REGULATIONS

Amending patent claims

Ankle : Breach of statutory duty : Footpaths : Tripping and Slipping : Dangerous Footpath

Another repeat of sexism and the city?

Anti competitive activity – acquisitions

Appeal Court rules on regional strategy status challenge

APPEALS

Appointed Person finds trade mark application to register deceased famous person in bad faith

Appropriate law is place of incorporation

Arbitration – Contract – Commercial

ARBITRATION : ARBITRATION CLAUSES : ESTOPPEL : JURISDICTION

Arsenal trader has European ruling reversed

Asbestos

Asbestos : Health & Safety figures

Asbestos : Mesothelioma : Causation : Duty of care

Asbestos Appeal Court ruling: What does it mean 9th October 2010 ?

Asbestos compensation

ASBESTOS COMPENSATION – NEW RULING – WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Asbestos compensation court victory for victims

Asbestos dust risk to wives

ASBESTOS RESPIRATORY DISEASES – FORESEEABILITY OF RISK OF HARM

Asbestos toll has not hit its peak

Asbestos victims hit by legislation delay

Asbestos victims win right to damages

Asbestos, date of knowledge, limitations

Asbestos: Esso: Nestle

ASBESTOSIS : CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT : DAMAGES : EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY : MESOTHELIOMA :

ASBESTOSIS: MESOTHELIOMA: COMPENSATION: STEP BY STEP

ASBESTOSIS: PERSONAL INJURY CLAIMS: LIMITATION [TIME BAR] PERIODS

Authority failings caused ‘justifiable outrage’

Avoiding payment of an adjudicator’s decision

Back injuries at work

Bad faith test for trademark

Banker cannot keep overpaid bonus

Beneficiaries: Codicils: Executors: Wills: Existence of Codicil modifying will

BONUS PAYMENTS : CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT : INTERPRETATION

Booth v Captain Phillips, Hijazi & Ghosheh Co, Blue Ice Shipping Corporation and International Ship Management

BOUNDARY DISPUTES : CONDUCT : DETERMINATION OF BOUNDARIES

BOUNDARY DISPUTES : DETERMINATION OF BOUNDARIES

Brands are new religion, says advertising agency

Breach of collateral contract: quantum: assessment: expected profits

Breach of Privacy : Max Mosley

Break clauses in commercial leases

Bristol: market ‘second best in Europe’

Bristol’s housing market : Signs of recovery

British Franchise Association

Builder – defective work

Building and construction – contract – damages

Building dispute : claimant must act reasonably

Building disputes : ADJUDICATION

Bulgarian in £300,000 libel claim against The Express

Bullied worker awarded £28,000

BUSINESS TENANCY: PROVING INTENTION TO REDEVELOP

Buy an existing business

Buying your shared ownership property

Buying your shared ownership property

Can previous (mis)conduct be relevant to a dismissal?

Cartel crack-down team strengthened

Certificate of Lawfulness

Challenging will : final will ruled valid

Changes in the law of sex discrimination

Changes in the law of sex discrimination

Changes to simplify and streamline planning applications

Checklist: restrictive covenants in employment contracts

CHINA : Trademark Gets Lost in Translation

Chinese walls: more decisions

CHIROPRACTORS : FAIR COMMENT : LIBEL

Church of England Minister granted an appeal against a decision that he was neither an employee or worker

City bonus culture: equal pay obligations: sex-bias claims

City bonus culture: equal pay obligations: sex-bias claims

Classifications for EU design registrations

Commercial dispute was particularly suited to mediation

Commercial issues: New advertising codes

Commercial leases: Will the government interfere?

Commonhold: common purpose for property

COMMONPLACE DESIGNS : COMMUNITY DESIGNS : COPYING : COPYRIGHT : INFRINGEMENT : PASSING OFF : PHOTOGRAPHS : UNREGISTERED DESIGN RIGHT : INFRINGEMENT OF DESIGN RIGHT IN WALL-MOUNTED CIGARETTE BIN : WHETHER DESIGN COMMONPLACE : WHETHER DESIGN COPIED : COPYRI

Communicating the decision to dismiss

Community design applications

Community Trade Mark

Companies turn to solicitors for help with employment laws

Company Law – Insolvency – Tax – Directors’ Duties & Liabilities

COMPANY LAW – BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY

Company law – contracts

COMPANY LAW : FAIRNESS : SHAREHOLDERS : UNFAIRLY PREJUDICIAL CONDUCT : UNFAIR PREJUDICE PETITION : SALE OF INTEREST IN COMPANY IN DISPUTE TO PETITIONER : FAIRNESS OF CONDUCT IN COURSE OF BUSINESS : s.994 COMPANIES ACT 2006 : s.996 COMPANIES ACT 2006

COMPANY LAW : MINORITY SHAREHOLDERS

company law identifying members

Company law: breach of duty

Company law: companies: directors: fiduciary duty

Company law: identifying members

Company Names Tribunal (from 1st October 2008)

Company Names Tribunal (from 1st October 2008)

Compensation claims; calculating the loss

Compensation for death of hero officer who laid stinger device

Compensation scheme picks up the bill

Competition law

COMPROMISE AGREEMENTS : EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS : JURISDICTION : MISREPRESENTATION : VOID CONTRACTS

Conciliation, adjudication and arbitration options in small building contracts – or court proceedings

Confidential information – termination of employment – information acquired used to establish new business – absence of post termination restraint clause

Confidentiality and trade secrets

Conflict of laws – Jurisdiction – Tort

Conflict of laws – Jurisdiction – Tort

Confusingly similar

Constructive dismissal

Constructive dismissal

CONSTRUCTIVE DISMISSAL : REASONS : REPUDIATION

Contesting A Will: 10 Do’s and Don’ts

Contesting wills

Contract – estoppel – media and entertainment

Contracts

CONTRACTS

Contracts – civil evidence – construction law

Contracts – Planning

Contracts of Employment

CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT

CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT: IMPLIED TERMS LOSS : NON-SOLICITATION COVENANTS : RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS: ENFORCEABILITY OF COVENANT : WHETHER SOLICITATION OR BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY

Contracts: Commercial law: Media and entertainment

CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE: EXPERT EVIDENCE: ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS: SPEED: VEHICLE MANOEUVRES: INATTENTIVENESS

CONVENIENCE CO LTD v ROBERTS

Conveyancing chains and gazumping

Conveyancing COSTS COMPARISON grid: no hidden extras approach

Conveyancing Quality Scheme: HSBC conveyancing panel

Cookies: UK Issues

Copyright – infringement – song lyrics – measure of damages

Copyright – infringement – song lyrics – measure of damages

COPYRIGHT – MUSICAL WORKS

Copyright infringement – song lyrics

Court of Appeal considers appeals in mosquito nets confidential information case

Court of Appeal considers test for implied terms

Court of Appeal rejects appeal in CIPRIANI trade mark case

Court will not import term to protect employer’s business

Covenants in restraint of trade; legitimate interests

DAMAGES – MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT – TORT

Damages – Personal Injury – Road Traffic

Damages claim in anti-competitive beer contract

Damages for online trade mark infringement and passing off

Daughter compensated for breach of unenforceable promise, receives an award of lump sum of £1.3 million

Daughter continues asbestosis victim’s fight

Deal memo is not a contract

Debt recovery for small businesses

Debt recovery: our charges and staffing

Defamation

Defamation – Civil Evidence

Defamation – claimant’s particulars of claim struck out

Defamation – Elements of a Claim

Defamation – media and entertainment – damages

Defamation – no reasonable cause

DEFAMATION: LIBEL : MALICE : MISTAKE : ALLEGATION OF THEFT : TEST FOR MALICE

DEFENDANT EMPLOYER FOUND LIABLE AFTER 8 HOURS EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS 38 YEARS AGO

DESIGN AND COMPONENTS

Design for door handle

DESIGN RIGHT AND REGISTERED DESIGN

Design right in wedding dress designs infringed

Development control

DIRECT DISCRIMINATION : LIMITATIONS : RACE DISCRIMINATION : VICTIMISATION : COMPLAINTS FOUND TO BE OUT OF TIME : RELEVANCE OF COMPLAINTS IN DETERMINING FURTHER COMPLAINTS PRESENTED WITHIN TIME: COMPARATORS

Director betrayed loyalty to his company

Director cannot require purchase

Director in breach of duty was a constructive trustee

DIRECTOR IS BANNED AND ORDERED TO REPAY £2M

DIRECTOR LIABLE FOR DIVERTING CORPORATE OPPORTUNITY

Directors

DIRECTORS – FIDUCIARY DUTY – DISHONEST DIVERSION OF ASSETS TO OFFSHORE COMPANY

Directors disqualification proceedings

DIRECTORS’ DISQUALIFICATION

Directors’ powers and duties

Directors’ rights

Disability discrimination – reasonable adjustments

Disability discrimination: Disabilities: Equality Act 2010

DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE QUESTIONNAIRE

Disciplinary Procedures

Discrimination at work: our legal costs and staffing

Discrimination on gender grounds

Discrimination on grounds of colour

Discrimination on grounds of colour

Discrimination on grounds of religion

DISCRIMINATION QUESTIONNAIRE

Dishonesty not required in establishing fraud

DISMISSAL QUESTIONNAIRE

Dismissal rules ‘a nightmare’

Dismissal rules ‘a nightmare’

Dismissed employee wins age discrimination claim

Disputed will: freezing order

Disqualified director fined £200,000

Disqualifying unfit directors

Distance Selling Regulations checklist

Doctors ‘do not know best’ in negligence cases

Domain names – websites

Dominant position – injunctions – on-line information

Doubling disclosure could clean up ‘murky’ referral fees

Due Diligence

E-Commerce Regulations checklist

E-conveyancing

Each year more than 4,500 people die from asbestos-related diseases

ECHR rejects Max Mosley’s bid for press pre-notification requirement

Effective date of termination; dismissal by letter

Effective meetings

Elderly testator – dementia

Employee relocation checklist

Employee’s deliberate disclosure of co-workers’ personal data

Employer did not have constructive knowledge of disability

Employers liable for “stigma loss”

EMPLOYMENT – DISCRIMINATION – LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Employment : Age discrimination : Automatically unfair dismissal

Employment Dispute Questionnaire

EMPLOYMENT DISPUTES QUESTIONNAIRE

Employment Law updates timetable as at 30th December 2014

Employment tribunal compensation – New limits

Employment tribunal work: legal costs and staffing

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS

Employment Tribunals – Stricter rules for compensation payments

Employment: automatically unfair dismissal

ENFORCEMENT APPEALS

Enforcing an arbitration award

Enforcing copyright abroad

Enforcing judgment

Engineering group sues Royal & Sun over asbestos

Equality Act 2010

Equality of arms for minorities

EQUITY – COMPANY LAW

Estate agent has duty to advise client on changes in market

ESTATE AGENTS : GOODWILL : INFRINGEMENT : PASSING OFF : REVOCATION : TRADE MARKS : PASSING OFF HIGH END ESTATE AGENCY BUSINESS : GOODWILL ACCRUING TO LICENCEES

ESTOPPEL

Estranged daughter handed victory in wills dispute

EU employment laws mean case bonanza

EU General Court finds INSULATE FOR LIFE devoid of distinctive character

EU General Court holds wavy line not distinctive for fashion items

EU General Court upholds invalidity of radiator designs

EU General Court upholds likelihood of confusion

EU trademark registrations: reduced costs

European Commission publishes new strategy for Intellectual Property rights

European Community Trade Mark (“CTM”) Factsheet

EUROPEAN REGISTRATION

European Trademark Ruling Attacked

Exchange of contracts

Extending flexible working rights

Facebook – High Court awards £22,000

Facebook – High Court awards £22,000 to victim

Failing vulnerable customers

Fairness and the fairer sex

Fairness and the fairer sex

Family wins £10m will victory over “witch” stepmother

Fast Track & Multi-Track Litigation

Financial services group faces race bias claim

Firm wrong to make mum-to-be redundant

FIRST STEPS Equity Loans – FirstBuy

FIRST STEPS Shared Ownership London

First time buyers: plan to help

FirstBuy mortgages : first time buyers

FirstBuy Scheme

Firstbuy v Part buy

Floodgates are Open for Commercial Tenants Wanting to Enfranchise

Flying Start

Foreign students fuel London housing boom

Former Banker Wins Settlement

Former cohabitee loses claim for share in farm sale proceeds (High Court)

Franchising

Franchising: business briefing

Fraud losses reach record £1bn in UK

Free movement of goods

Gagging orders on media

Gay bias persists in banks, says claimant

General Court annuls OHIM invalidation of highlighter pen design

Get Set for Euro Companies…

GIVING GUIDANCE TO JURIES IN ASSESSING DAMAGES FOR LIBEL

Global registration – where are we now?

GOLDEN BALLS : ECJ rules on proposed Community trade mark

Google Adwords: Court of Appeal remits Interflora keywords advertising trade mark case for retrial

Government has ‘dumped’ asbestos fund

Grants towards legal costs: IP Wales

Groom with a view

Gross misconduct

Guide to franchising: World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)

Guide to the Planning System : our guide

Gypsies lose latest round in Green Belt battle

Gypsy’s action to quash planning appeal decisions

Harassment – Has workplace banter been banned?

HARASSMENT : MISUSE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION : RIGHT TO RESPECT FOR PRIVATE AND FAMILY LIFE :

Harassment claim settled for substantial damages

HARASSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE

HEAD TEACHERS : LIBEL : SCHOOLS

Health and safety – negligence – personal

Help to Buy scheme: solicitors

HIGH COURT AWARDS £863,000 TO VICTIM OF MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE

High Court considers test of mental capacity to enter transaction

HIGH FLYING ACCOUNTANT WINS APPEAL COURT CHALLENGE TO MILLION POUND PAYOUT

Holiday disaster damages: court sets rules

HOLIDAY FROM HELL THAT COST OAPS £14,000

Home Ownership in London

House prices heading for a fall, surveyors warn

Householder Appeals

How to avoid libel and defamation

HOW TO BE A DIRECTOR

How to make the most of shared-ownership schemes

Huge fall in tribunal claims

ICO issues first enforcement notice under GDPR

ICO publishes guidance on new regulations on the use of cookies

Implications of a finding of shadow directorship

IN SEARCH OF ENLIGHTENMENT ON AGE

IN SEARCH OF ENLIGHTENMENT ON AGE

Incorporating a company

Increase in compensation payments for mesothelioma victims

Independent Betting Adjudication Service (IBAS)

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – CONTRACT

Infringement in the UK unregistered design rights in the design of a pair of jeans.

Infringement of copyright in software

Infringement: copyright in photos

Infringing registered design right

INHERITANCE ACT CLAIMS QUESTIONNAIRE

INJURY (CYCLING) – NEGLIGENCE

Injury claims: motorcycles

Injury on board ship

Insurance Contracts

Insurance contracts

Intellectual decision made in the High Court

Intellectual property – acquiescence – estoppel – must fit

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – CONFUSION

Intellectual property – genuine use – market share

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – SCOTTISH

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – CONTRACTS – INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Intellectual property rights

Intellectual property: Civil procedure

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: COMPARATIVE ADVERTISING : FIRE : INFRINGEMENT : INSULATION : MISREPRESENTATION

Intellectual property: novelty: originality: commonplace designs

Intellectual Property: patents: infringement: claims: limitation: declarations of non-infringement

Intellectual propety – industry – confidentiality – know how – Plastics industry

Interim payment under CPR 25 ordered in construction case

International arbitration has ‘lost its way’

International trademark law update

Internet domain name protection

Investigating the property: pre-contract enquiries

Is the British design registration system also being used to register trademarks?

Japanese knotweed: nuisance

Joint authorship

Joint ventures: advice and documentation

JUDGE NOT BOUND BY STRUCTURED APPROACH

Judges rule on L’Oreal trade mark

Keep your secrets safe from thieves

LANDLORD AND TENANT – DAMAGES

Landmark asbestos claim decision

Lands Tribunal

Law lords ruling leaves insurers facing huge claims over asbestos-related cancer

Legal expenses insurance

Legal Profession

Legal profession: dishonesty: penalties: professional conduct: striking off

LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR TEACHER: DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS

LEISURE INDUSTRY

Lewd comments

Libel

Libel – Limitation Act 1980

Libel – medical reports – unauthorised disclosure of confidential material – justification

Libel claim win

Libel claims success

Libel tourism doubts

Libel trials: “honest comment”

Liquor licensing: our charges and staffing

Local buyers are dominant – Research

Localism Bill poised for Royal Assent

Loft conversion costs soar in shake-up

London house prices will jump nearly 40% by 2014

London leads in house price rises

London libel cases

London provides sought-after alternative

LUDLOW MUSIC INC. v. ROBBIE WILLIAMS

Malaysia and Indonesia – trademarks update

Malignant mesothelioma – interim payments – co-defendants – no need to establish liability of individual defendant

Manager can keep repossessed farm

Market has spring in its step again

MEASURE OF DAMAGES : MESOTHELIOMA : DEATH FROM MESOTHELIOMA

Mesothelioma

MESOTHELIOMA

MESOTHELIOMA ASBESTOS COMPENSATION QUESTIONNAIRE

Mesothelioma claim : case study

Mesothelioma claimants with low exposure to asbestos succeed

MESOTHELIOMA COMPENSATION AMOUNTS: ASBESTOSIS

Millionaire’s ex-wife tells of suspicions over new will

Misrepresentation

Misrepresentation – measure of damages – pop band in sponsorship contract

MISSING TERMS CANNOT BE IMPLIED

Mistake – Mistake of fact – Scope of doctrine of equitable rescission

Mortgages

MORTGAGES

Mosley wins court case over orgy

Music Industry Contracts: the importance of being legitimate

MUSLIM WOMAN HOUNDED OUT OF MET – WINS £1M

Names can be trademarked even if common

NEGLIGENCE

Negligence – damages

NEGLIGENCE – DAMAGES – LEGAL PROFESSION

NEGLIGENCE – DAMAGES – PERSONAL INJURY

NEGLIGENCE – HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK – LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Negligence – Personal Injury Accidents

Negligence – Professional Negligence: Accountants

NEGLIGENCE – CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE – PERSONAL INJURY – PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE

NEGLIGENCE EDUCATION

Negligence in failure to warn patient of slight inherent risk in surgery

Negligence in surgeon’s failure to give warning of slight risk

Negligent misstatements – duty of care beyond the reference situation

Negligent valuation of ‘buy to let’ property

New Designs Opinions Service

New lease of life for landlord and tenant

New planning application fees published

New school site planning guidance published

New Trademark Law in Romania

New UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules Revision

NHS clinical negligence bill rises to £4.4bn

NHS faces £9bn bill for negligence claims

Night flight noise could cost £2bn in claims

No oral variation clause found to be effective (Supreme Court)

No time limit in dishonesty

NO TRADE MARK PROTECTION FOR FUNCTIONAL DESIGNS

NO VALIDATION OF DIRECTOR’S ACT

No-deal Brexit: UK intellectual property technical notices

Nursery worker was sacked for being pregnant

Obtaining information on a business you are thinking of buying

OBVIOUSNESS

Obviousness

OBVIOUSNESS – GAS BURNERS

Offer and acceptance – consideration

Office change of use to homes initiative launched

OHIM to introduce fast-track examination of qualifying Community trade mark applications

Opposing lease renewal: intention to develop

ORIGINALITY OF GARMENT DESIGN

Originality of garment of design

Parent companies are accountable for activities of subsidiaries

Partnership – agriculture, fisheries and food

Partnership – fraud – misrepresentation – professional negligence

PARTNERSHIPS – BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP : JOINT TENANCIES

Passing off – goodwill – false product endorsement

Passing off – goodwill – false product endorsement

Passing off : Lookalikes

Passing off and trade mark infringement in kulfi ice cream dispute

Passing off dispute over TITANIC marks

Passing off: Goodwill: Premises: Fast food restaurants: Franchise agreement

Passing off: Inquiry as to damages

Passing off: purple packaging

PATENT OFFICE CONSULTS ON “GRACE PERIODS”

PATENTS – NEGOTIATION – ACTIONABLE THREATS – EXTENT OF “WITHOUT PREJUDICE” PROTECTION

Patents County Court considers whether copyright in photograph of London image infringed

Patents in toilet fresheners

Permitted development – new rules from 1.10.08

Personal injuries – psychiatric damage

Personal Injury. Employer’s liability. Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992. Work Equipment Directive 89/655.

Photograph on another website infringed copyright

Pimlico Plumbers loses appeal against worker status (Supreme Court)

Planning

PLANNING

Planning – Change of use – planning units – protection of existing rights

PLANNING – ENVIRONMENT

PLANNING – GREEN BELT : PLANNING PERMISSION : PLANNING POLICY GUIDANCE

PLANNING – HOUSING – LOCAL GOVERNMENT

PLANNING – inappropriate development

Planning – Local Government

PLANNING – TELECOMMUNICATIONS

PLANNING – BUILDING EXTENSIONS

PLANNING : REFUSAL GROUNDS

Planning :barn conversions

Planning and Environment

Planning Appeal notices: enforcement notices

Planning applications

Planning charges shake-up proposed

Planning for times when partners fall out

Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing (PPS3) reissued

Planning proposals

Planning reforms – latest

Planning reforms announced

Planning system

Planning System (England and Wales) : our guide