Business

Mediation Don't agree to mediation unless you intend to go through with it, otherwise you may be penalised in costs 24.03.03 Law-Now
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PFI and National Audit Office Within the space of a week the National Audit Office (NAO) released two reports that contain good news for PFI and the PFI procurement process 18.03.03 Law-Now
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Pensions Ombudsman The Government announced today that provisions in the
Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 allowing the Pensions Ombudsman to deal with class actions
will not be brought into effect 19.03.03 Law-Now
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Highways Agency New Consultation Document on the Govt's "Transport 2010 : the 10 Year Plan"
details the measures they will put in place to improve transport in the forseeable future 18.03.03 Law-Now
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Liquidated Assets The recent case of Jeancharm Ltd (t/a Beaver International) v Barnet Football Club Limited [2003] All ER (D) 69 (Jan) explores whether extravagant amounts can be included within liquidated and ascertained damages provisions 12.03.03 Law-Now
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Shareholding In a recent Court of Appeal case it was held that a decision of a company which has not been formally authorised by way of a shareholder's resolution in a general meeting, even when the articles require it, may still be binding 10.03.03 Keeble Hawson
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Equality In Europe The Commission has today adopted the 7th annual report on equal opportunities. It looks at the adoption of the Directive on Harassment at Work amongst others 06.03.03 Daniel Barnett
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Water Bill More than two years after a draft was circulated for consultation, the Government's long-awaited Water Bill has
finally reached Parliament 05.03.03 Law-Now
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Energy White Paper The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) last week published its long-awaited Energy White Paper, setting out the Government's strategy on energy to the year 2020 03.03.03 Law-Now
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Rome Convention The Commision of the European Communities has published a green paper proposing updates to the Rome Convention 1980 04.03.03 Law-Now
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Employment

Jurisdiction and Stays An very important decision, Lawson v Serco Ltd, has been handed down by the EAT 26.03.03 Daniel Barnett
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Disciplinary Procedures During the disciplinary process, where there are allegations of misconduct an investigation must be carried out before deciding what action to take 21.03.03 Keeble Hawson
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TUPE Regulations An important decision, Alamo Group v Tucker, has been handed down by the EAT, dealing with liability for failing to consult under regulations 10 and 11 of TUPE 22.03.03 Daniel Barnett
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Disability Discrimination The Disability Discrimination (Blind and Partially Sighted People) Regulations 2003 have been laid before Parliament today 17.03.03 Daniel Barnett, Keeble Hawson, Disabilty Discrimination Links
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Unified Tribunals Service The Lord Chancellor's Department has today announced the creation of a unified tribunal service, which will swallow up the role of the Employment Tribunal Service 11.03.03 Daniel Barnett
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Two Tier Workforce The Goverment has announced new measures to try an end the 'Two Tier' public service workforce 07.03.03 Keeble Hawson
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Employment Relations Act When the Act was passed, a review was promised after three years. This is it 06.03.03 Daniel Barnett
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Taxing PILONs The Inland Revenue has recently produced new guidance regarding the way in which payments in lieu of notice (PILONs) are treated for tax purposes 04.03.03 Keeble Hawson
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Online Gambling Online gambling suffered another blow over the weekend with the news that
UK online bookmaker Sportingbet has been ordered to refund around 1
million pounds worth of stakes to Australian company K&S 31.03.03 Eversheds
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Spam and Cookies Center for Democracy & Technology has released their report on 6 months of research into spam, the UK government has issued proposals to crack down on unwanted emails and strengthen privacy rights 28.03.03 Eversheds, Spam Links
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Cookie Patent patent has been granted in the US to traffic management firm F5 Networks for a method of using cookies 24.03.03 Masons
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New IP Rules The new Patents Court Guide, and Civil Procedure Rule
63 with accompanying Practice Direction, were
published earlier this month 25.03.03 Law-Now
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RIAA Piracy Complaints The RIAA has sent letters to 300 companies alleging copyright infringement for use of file-swapping services such as KaZaA within their corporate networks 18.03.03 Masons
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Instant Messaging Can unsanctioned instant messaging and use of Kazaa within your company cause serious damage? Perhaps 12.03.03 Masons
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1.28M Have No Pension According to research by AXA at least 25,000 companies are breaking the law by not providing an
employee pension scheme, with around 1.28 million employees affected 12.03.03 Masons
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EU Patents The Competitiveness Council of Ministers met to announce a series of new Community patents options including a centralised patents court 11.03.03 Law-Now, Patent Links
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Interim Injunctions The Court of Appeals decision to uphold an interim injunction in Smithkline Beecham Vs Apotex may lead to more being granted in future 11.03.03 Law-Now
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Spam Crackdown A new set of rules came into force today that affect direct marketing by e-mail
and SMS text messaging 04.03.03 Masons
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Band Names Former Members of heavy metal band 'Saxon' dispute who owns the rights to the name, Byford Vs. Oliver + Dawson 03.03.03 Simkins
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Personal
Family + Injury + Property

e-Conveyancing The Land Registry has now produced a report of the findings from their recent consultation exercise about e-conveyancing 19.03.03 Law-Now

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Consent to Assign Where a lease has a qualified covenant against assignment (ie it is not permitted without the landlord's consent) Section 19 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 requires that the landlord's consent cannot be unreasonably withheld 03.03.03 Law-Now, Landlord and Tenant Links
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Compulsory Purchase The area of most significant change that will result from the proposals in the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill are those proposed in relation to the Development Plan 01.03.03 Law-Now

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