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03/03/2010 - Muckle LLP host Finance for Business North East Fund SeminarOver 180 people from the North East business community met the fund managers of the Finance for Business North East Fund at a Muckle LLP seminar. [More...]
19/02/2010 - Another reason for employers not to use the 'young' wordAn employer who circulated an internal memo that used the words 'younger, entrepreneurial' to profile a job vacancy has lost an age discrimination claim. [More...]
17/02/2010 - Guidance on employees' right to request time off for trainingEmployers will welcome newly published guidance on the right of employees to request time off for training, although smaller businesses have longer to prepare for introduction of the right. [More...]
15/02/2010 - Case law: pregnant worker not automatically entitled to risk assessmentEmployers will welcome guidance on when a risk assessment should be carried out for a pregnant worker, given in a recent ruling. [More...]
12/02/2010 - Case law: periods of impairment can be added together for disability discrimination purposesEmployers need to be aware that an employee who suffers two different impairments, each lasting for less than 12 months but together lasting for more than 12 months, is protected by the disability discrimination rules, following a recent ruling. [More...]
10/02/2010 - Case law: requirement for male employee to cut long hair was not sex discriminationEmployers will welcome a recent court decision that clarifies an aspect of the sex discrimination rules. [More...]
08/02/2010 - Have your say: new guidance on the legal definition of waste and its applicationBusinesses must comply with the continually developing obligations on waste management, and will welcome the opportunity to comment on new guidance in this area. [More...]
06/02/2010 - Changed, and unchanged, statutory payments for employeesfor example, by employment tribunals - in different circumstances, which are made more complicated this year by the uncertain economic climate. [More...]
05/02/2010 - Review of Civil Litigation Costs 04/02/2010 - Blacklisting of trade unionists 02/02/2010 - Court confirms copyright in software belongs to the author of the software, not the client who commissioned it, unless the author expressly transfers itIn a case with complicated facts the court has, yet again, ruled that, without an express clause in a contract between two businesses about who owns copyright in work done by one of them for the other, it belongs to the business that did the work. [More...]
02/02/2010 - 'Subject to contract' no longer effective once agreement reachedThe High Court has ruled that, once the parties to a dispute have agreed terms to settle it, any previous 'subject to contract' correspondence becomes admissible in court, stopping either of them from changing their minds. [More...]
02/02/2010 - Court confirms when doing someone else's work under a contract relieves them of their obligation to do itWhen a business carried out remedial works that another was supposed to do under the contract between them, the court decided that it wasn't waiving the other business's obligations under the contract, and could still claim damages from that other business for non-performance. [More...]
02/02/2010 - Effective redress for breaches of competition law 02/02/2010 - DigitalBritain 28/01/2010 - Case confirms that damages against employers can include 'stigma loss'The Court of Appeal has confirmed that a dismissed employee's damages can include compensation for 'stigma loss' where making their claim may deter future employers from offering them a job. [More...]
27/01/2010 - Possible new law on 'cookies' threatens to create website havocA potential new EU law requiring businesses to get consent from visitors to their website before the site deposits 'cookies' on the visitor's computer could create confusion and cost for all businesses with a website. [More...]
26/01/2010 - New guide to tax incentives for charitable giving by businessesThe government has issued a new 'Guide to Giving for Business', setting out the tax incentives for businesses if they give to charities and other third sector bodies. [More...]
26/01/2010 - Charity Commission publishes new constitutions for charitiesThe Charity Commission has published new suggested forms of constitution for charities that wish to operate as limited companies, including a draft suitable for small charities with an annual income of under £5,000, following the new Companies Act. [More...]
25/01/2010 - Rights in business name disputes clearer after 12 months of new lawGuidance and principles are starting to emerge from decisions of the new Company Names Tribunal, that enables brand owners to stop others registering limited companies in the same or similar names. [More...]
