In a case which reveals that, when it comes to business misbehaviour, lightning can strike twice in the same place, an entrepreneur who was disqualified from acting as a company director following a fraud conviction
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) has issued revised guidance for employers on how to handle transfers to which the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) apply. This takes into account
In a case which underlined that even striking similarities in the name and packaging of products may not be enough to establish passing off, Aldi Stores Limited defeated a claim brought by the manufacturers of
With the football World Cup ready to kick off shortly (The first match, Brazil v Croatia is on Thursday 12 June at 9pm UK time and England’s first match, against Italy, is scheduled for 11pm
In cases of unfair dismissal, if the Employment Tribunal (ET) accepts that the employee’s dismissal took place for one of the potentially fair reasons for dismissal and a fair procedure was followed, the test becomes
In a ruling which powerfully confirmed the extra-territorial reach of the English courts, the Court of Appeal opened the way for civil contempt proceedings to be brought against the managing director of two overseas companies
The Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) is a relatively new creature in UK law, so the law relating to this form of ownership is still developing. One key question that has arisen is the employment status
The Government’s response to the consultation entitled ‘Transparency and trust: enhancing transparency of UK company ownership and increasing trust in UK business‘, launched in 2013, contains buried deep within it a proposal to abolish the
In the latest in a series of cases on the correct calculation of holiday pay (Lock v British Gas Trading Limited and Others), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has followed the
Six construction companies which were between them fined more than £16.5 million by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for their involvement in anti-competitive ‘bid rigging’ have had their hopes of getting part of their
