Taxi app phenomenon Uber has suffered a serious blow to its business model after its claim that it works for its 30,000 London drivers, rather than the other way round, was dismissed as pure fiction by an Employment Tribunal (ET). The ruling means that Uber
Commercial relationships almost always involve a powerful element of trust and it is common for confidential information to pass between buyer and seller. However, one important High Court ruling has emphasised that such information must only be used for the purpose for which it is
Do you need a prenuptial agreement before you say ‘I do’? Contrary to popular belief a prenuptial agreement, or the more commonly known ‘pre-nup’, is not just for wealthy individuals and high profile celebrities. A prenuptial agreement applies to any couple who are planning to
What is Parental Responsibility? Parental responsibility is defined in law as being “all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which by law a parent of a child has in relation to the child and his property.” Why is it important? Individuals who have
Business projects sometimes fail so completely that contracts which underlie them are frustrated and cease to have effect. In an important decision concerning the abject failure of a call handling venture, the Court of Appeal considered the circumstances in which that might occur. Company A
Public awareness of corruption accusations, whether true or false, can be enough to undermine valuable trading positions and that was said to be so in the case of one company that faced a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation in respect of its dealings in a
Regardless of factual or legal errors, contact adjudicators’ rulings will generally be enforced by the courts, on the basis that reaching the right result is secondary to rapid dispute resolution. The High Court made that point in upholding one such award, although it contained a
Hyperlinking Can Breach Copyright In the UK the right of copyright is automatic: it belongs to the creator of an original work and there is no need to apply for it or register it. There is also a widespread, but entirely incorrect, assumption that because
The commercial courts are often instrumental in exposing skulduggery and that was certainly so in one case in which the director of a shipping company was found to have masterminded the scuttling of a merchant vessel with a view to financial gain. The ship was
Even in the case of very large construction projects, standard contracts are often employed and the greatest care is needed before making any bespoke amendments to them. That point was strikingly made by the Court of Appeal in a case concerning a £121 million hotel
