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Commercial Law
- Tenant Must Prove Improvement Claim
- Reforms to the Employment Law System
- Redundancy – Suitable Alternative Employment
- Partnership Challenge Fails When Evidence Insufficient
- Open Dealing Means No Breach of Duty
- Expertise Critical to Avoid Negligence
- Employee References – What is Fair?
- Disability Discrimination – Reasonable Adjustments and Their Prospect of Success
- Directors Who Misled Creditor Personally Liable
- Court Acts to Protect Majority Shareholder
- Costs Spiral When Fight Prolonged
- Commerciality the Key in Contract Interpretation
- Amenity Value of Land Stops Development
- Disability Discrimination – Failure to Make Reasonable Adjustments
- Get it in Writing!
- Late Legal Representation Proves Expensive
- Licensing Appeal – New Evidence Allowed
- Offer Must Stand, Rules Court of Appeal
- Tenants Warned Over Compliance with Lease Terms
- The Truth, the Whole Truth
- Unclear Lease Terms Cost Subtenant
- Bribery Act Guidance published
- Competition Act extended to land
- Court condemns unfair product comparison
- Developer cannot avoid liability by failing to market development
- Directors safe from competition law challenge
- Economic upswing no reason to abandon good credit control
- Email terms apply despite lack of written contract
- Internal mechanism for dispute resolution does not override tribunal right
- Landmark decision ends expert witness immunity
- LLP case shows need for members’ agreement
- Page three settlement costs news group
- Problems with insolvent landlords
- Redundancies following a TUPE transfer
- Abolition of default retirement age
- Bribery & rights under civil law
- Burden of proof for disqualification of directors
- Compromise agreements - tax rule changes
- Court agrees nobody is perfect
- Court implies only “reasonable skill”
- Delayed implication of the bribery act
- Failure to disclose means judgement denied
- Insolvency & TUPE - EAT provides clarification
- Landlord loses £270000 repair bill
- Landlords win deposit case
- Loss must be proven to be actionable
- OFT guidance on director disqualification & competition law
- Redundancy damages not taxable
- Removal Firms Pay for misuse of Trade Association marks
- Shareholder cannot unreasonably withhold discontent
- Tenants improvement do not increase ground rent
- Winding up your company - warning
- Assured Tenancy Changes - Information for Landlords
- Change of Circumstances Creates Misrepresentation
- Communications Needed to Understand the 'Factual Matrix' Are Admissible
- Compromise Agreements and the Equality Act 2010
- Disability-Related Discrimination - New Act Restores Position
- Exclusion Clauses Fail to Protect IT Consultants
- Gross Misconduct and Breach of Contract
- Happy (NI) Holiday
- Income Splitting - Another HMRC Attack
- Loss of Light - Demolition Ordered
- New Lease Starts When Old Lease Ends
Personal Law
- Unrecorded Marriage Can Still be Terminated
- Unreasonable Behaviour Leads to Access Limitation
- Sisters Lose Battle Over Father’s Estate
- Owner Must Take Concrete Steps to Preserve Title to Land
- Lotto Win Not Part of Family Assets
- Information Failure Costs Landlord
- How Planning Law Works
- HMRC Attack on Discounted Gift Scheme Succeeds - NEW
- Here Comes the Sun (and Electricity)
- Exaggeration of Symptoms Does Not Prevent Costs Claim
- DNA Sample Can be Taken from Mentally Incapable Adult
- Divorce and Family Location
- Creditors Benefit When Paperwork Incomplete
- Conduct Determines Legal Ownership
- C’est Bon, Le Pre-Nup
- Amateur Footballer’s Compensation Award – Council Appeals - NEW
- Acceptance of Risk Negates Claim
- Disapproval of Son-in-Law Leads to Property Challenge
- Family Feud Breaks Out Over Deathbed Marriage and Will
- House Sales – Replying to Enquiries
- An end for the hired gun
- Banks Receive PPI Compensation Setback
- Court of Appeal Rewrites Will
- Court of Protection comes to rescue of problem tenant
- Divorced man can keep £1 million in pre-marital assets
- Importance of new relationship outweighed by relationship with mother
- Inherited wealth not split on divorce
- Landlords face costs in disputes
- Supreme court rejects house disguised as a barn
- Taxing times for trusts
- Badly drafted documents foil guarantee claim
- Court will not rectify will executed in error
- Covenants for short term protection
- Decision quashed if reasonable action not taken
- Easement established by use
- House builder not liable for £35000 defects
- Inaccuracy not haste defeats planning decision
- Landlords win deposit case
- Passenger wins 1.1 million
- Supreme Court hands down landmark mesothelioma ruling
- Three point test for duty of care
- When is a boat not a boat?
- Witness statements not public
- £41.5 Million Divorce - Wife Refused Appeal
- Building Owner Must Indemnify Neighbour Against Damage
- Contract Does Not Prevent Claim for Losses Proceeding
- Court of Appeal Guidance on Inherited Wealth and Divorce
- Divorced Husband Ordered to Pay Up After Hidden Share Deal
- Father Who Fails to Pay Faces Prison
- Former Partner Not Entitled to Share of Property
- Half-Sister Given Access to Siblings
- Holiday Homes and VAT - HMRC Back Down
- Pensions and Divorce
- Trust Assets Included in Divorce Settlement