Businesses risk being unable to recover legal costs from the other side, even if they win a court action, if they have unreasonably refused to
As the result of a recent High Court ruling, shadow directors are now subject to fiduciary duties and other liabilities. The ruling also established an
Businesses will welcome High Court guidance on when notice to end an agreement is ‘reasonable’, where the agreement makes no express provision for termination on
An employer has been held liable for its employees’ unauthorised breach of a rival’s Database Rights after the employees copied and used the database to
An employee whose hours were specified by his line manager each week but who, in fact, worked a 48 hour week, was not on a
A business can be your commercial agent and entitled to compensation under EU law if you terminate the arrangement – even if the agent does
An employee who posted moderate, respectful comments about gay marriage on his personal Facebook profile neither brought his employer into disrepute nor acted in a
A director who carried out a share buy-back for his company without professional advice and got it wrong, breached his duties to his company and
Many banks have reached an agreement with the Financial Services Authority to voluntarily review any swaps/collars/caps sold to non-sophisticated customers in the last 12 years.