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20/11/2007 : Is age just a number?
Imagine you are a 55 year old man who has held a senior position as head of a division for over ten years. You are aware that the company is considering restructuring. You believe that you could be at risk of redundancy along with the other heads of… »

19/11/2007 : Protection For Sources And Private Identities Is Limited
  Disclosure of sources and private information is top of the media law agenda after recent rulings on the limits of confidentiality. Sheffield Wednesday Football Club and its executives succeeded in obtaining a court order compelling a… »

14/11/2007 : The Rise and Rise of the Financial Ombudsman Service
Clients and customers have always complained about businesses; it was ever thus. In the old days businesses investigated the complaint themselves and if the clients were unhappy with the outcome, they could always go to Court. Things change however.… »

13/11/2007 : Drinking At Work
A man worked for a council in London for a number of years.  In January 2006, he was caught drinking at work. His manager investigated the incident and the employee said that he thought he might be an alcoholic. He was told that drinking at work… »

09/11/2007 : Impoverished Pensioner – Or Pension Share?
What are you expecting your lifestyle to be like on retirement? Frequent holidays in the sun? Spending hours of pleasure in the garden or improving the house? Treating children and grandchildren at those special times of the year? The Government… »

09/11/2007 : The Code for Leasing Business Premises in England and Wales 2007
The Government has for some time been concerned over the lack of flexibility of lease terms and in particular, the acceptance of the same by smaller business tenants who may not always have access to suitable professional advice. There have been… »

07/11/2007 : Select And Enforce Trade Marks With Care
You have registered your business name as a trade mark and built up goodwill over several years. Then along comes another business using your registered trade mark to promote its similar services in another part of the country. You would… »

06/11/2007 : House Of Lords' Credit Ruling Pleases Consumers
Consumer and retail business confidence in the busy run up to Christmas received a boost when the House of Lords clarified consumer safeguards on credit card purchases made abroad. This landmark ruling gives purchasers buying from abroad, whether in… »

05/11/2007 : Inheritance tax – is it still a concern?
Inheritance tax is the hot topic of the moment, with wildly differing political party proposals constantly hitting the headlines. The Chancellor has attempted to take the heat out of the political situation in his Pre-Budget statement. He made much… »

01/11/2007 : Lost In The I-Crowd?
In the wake of the digital revolution, the smallest letter of our alphabet has become a powerful branding tool. The letter ‘i’, as a prefix on names for goods and services, instantly denotes futuristic digital specification and… »

01/11/2007 : Home Equity Release Plans: Revisiting History
It is hard these days to pick up a newspaper, or watch a satellite TV programme without seeing an advertisement for a home equity release product. However, the financial services industry has some previous experience when it comes to home equity release… »

01/11/2007 : Real Drag!
The health risks of smoking are well documented but what about the employment risks? The smoking ban in public places is in force but what about the employee who smokes at work? Can he be fairly dismissed or will he get off with some kind of reprimand… »

01/11/2007 : ‘Make Allowance For Editorial Decisions’ – Court of Appeal
Following the important Court of Appeal ruling in Charman v Orion and McLagan, libel judges will have to make proper allowance for the editorial decisions of professional journalists and authors. There’s now a robust quartet of precedents… »

31/10/2007 : CGT Tax Changes - Deals Or No Deals?
Anyone thinking of selling or passing their business on could lose out on tax relief if the deal goes through after 5th April 2008. Taper relief, first introduced in 1998, reduced the tax rate on capital gains on shares in trading companies held… »

22/10/2007 : Bent Coppers Libel Victory – And “Greater Problems” Over Data Protection
Publisher Orion and author Graeme McLagan have won an important victory for press freedom in a libel battle over Bent Coppers, a book alleging police corruption. The book suggested there were cogent grounds to suspect that the claimant, ex-Metropolitan… »

22/10/2007 : Be aware of maternity rights
As many of you will know, the law prohibiting sex discrimination has been around for over thirty years. Probably the clearest area of sex discrimination involves pregnancy, for the blindingly obvious reason that men don’t tend to get pregnant.… »

17/10/2007 : Take Your Dress Code Seriously
What’s the difference between dreadlocks and matted hair? You might be forgiven for wondering whether I’ve had a career change into hairdressing, but in fact this was a question the Employment Appeal Tribunal had to decide two weeks ago.… »

15/10/2007 : FDRs In Divorce
The FDR is the judiciary’s method of encouraging couples to reach agreement about their finances without fighting on to final hearing. It originates from commercial litigation where an arbitration hearing was found to result in settlement in a… »

11/10/2007 : Foundering on the rock?
As the saying goes, "If you owe the bank £30,000. then it’s your problem but if you owe the bank £30m, then it’s the bank’s problem." Perhaps that saying should now be extended to read "and if you owe the… »

10/10/2007 : Discrimination Protection For All
One of the most high profile employment tribunal claims in sport ended last week in London, when international cricket umpire Darrell Hair withdrew his claim of race discrimination against the International Cricket Council (ICC). Mr Hair, a white… »

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