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Workplace disciplinary investigations require careful handling and employers who fail to act...

Trade marks are a powerful means of protecting your unique brand, even against much larger or more...

Most leases contain covenants that forbid tenants from doing certain things without their...

It is only too easy for businesses dealing with office politics, poor trading or cashflow...

Consumers do not always read labels, so the packaging of a product, and its colour in particular,...

It is a sad fact that sophisticated fraudsters can intercept emails or other digital traffic in...

Neighbourhood plans are an increasingly common means by which local people are given the chance to...

The National Minimum Wage (NMW) on the face of it imposes a straightforward duty to pay a minimum...

Businesses that store their clients' personal data are under a strict legal duty to keep it...

In a recent property case that will have a bearing on all contractual matters, the High Court...

Few employees would say no if offered shares in the companies for which they work. However, as an...

Shareholder disagreements as to the direction a company should take are generally fought out...

Patent protection is a valuable privilege that is only afforded to ideas and products that are...

Record employment levels mean strong demand for office space, but the need for more new homes is...

People have all sorts of reasons for choosing not to eat meat, and that prompted an Employment...

It may seem obvious that no one can own a wild animal. However, in a novel case of interest to...

Flat tenants in certain circumstances have the right to band together and acquire the freehold ...

Can Employment Tribunals (ETs) or the courts force employers to re-engage employees who have...

When you enter into a contract , you are agreeing to be bound by what it says, not by what you...

It may come as a surprise to many that local authorities are under no statutory obligation to give...

There is almost nothing more frustrating for businesses than to see their successful products...

Under Section 109(1) of the Equality Act 2010 , anything done by a person in the course of their...

The consequences of a company being struck off the Companies House register – even...

When a farmer dies, close relatives are in certain circumstances entitled to succeed to any...

Workplace whistleblowers who act in the public interest by exposing wrongdoing are protected by...

Agreements are frequently reached behind closed boardroom doors, but a failure to engage a...

A fundamental principle of good government is that anyone on the receiving end of an adverse...

Under Section 15 of the Equality Act 2010 , an employer's duty to make reasonable adjustments for...

In November 2018, a motor industry worker, Mustafa Kasim, was given a six-month prison sentence...

Can businesses owe a duty to protect customers on their premises from the criminal acts of others?...