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• Employment - May 2013
  Disability: cause, effect and obesity
  Covert recordings can be admissible as evidence, providing you apply properly!
  Vague claims of victimisation are not enough
  Question: when is a Limited Liability Partnership not a Limited Liability Partnership?
  Assessing injury to feelings and aggravated damages in discrimination cases
  Is it possible to be overcautious in avoiding bias in redundancy selection?
  A final written warning may indeed be final
  Following the correct process is as easy as A,B,C... or is it?
• Food - Spring 2013
  The great horsemeat scandal 2013
  In a labelling jam
  Health Claims
  Groceries Adjudicator to have power to fine supermarkets
  OFT principles for food and drink price offers and promotions
• Commercial - Spring 2013
  Standard Terms & Conditions - a refresher
  Franchising Round Up
  When good faith is required
  The issue of economic duress: is the contract void?
  Public procurement: Turning Point v Norfolk County Council
  International commercial agency agreements
  IT/IP Update: are millions of internet users unwittingly committing copyright infringement?
• Employment - February 2013
  What's new in 2013?
  ECHR Religious Discrimination Judgment
  Are you ready for RTI?
  Polkey v Reinstatement Orders
  Incorporating Contractual Terms
  Employment Tribunal Charges and Compensation Limits
  New Statutory Payment Rates
• Commercial - Winter 2012
  Lessons in limiting liability in commercial contracts
  Commercial Agency: the importance of repudiatory breach
  Can a partner be a Whistleblower?
  IT Update: warning for internet traders
  Intellectual Property: A limited win for Cadbury
  Age Discrimination

• Employment - November 2012
  Preserving continuity between associated employers
  Reasonablenesss of restrictive convenants
  Comments about Pope not considered harassment on grounds of religion
  Equal pay claims: out of time?
  The meaning of 'establishment' for collective redundancy purposes
  Auto-enrolment: abolition of stakeholder pension requirements

• Real Estate - Autumn 2012
  Build it yourself!
  Injunction puts breaks on developer's plans
  Lovely Road would like to meet Public Highway for mutually beneficial relationship
  What a relief!
• Employment - September 2012
  Redundancy and headcount
  Holiday sickness
  Mutuality of obligation
  TUPE: Service provision change
  Mutual trust and confidence
  Can employers re-discipline for the same offence?
  Update on Employment Law reform
• Food - Autumn 2012
  Stop press: update on remedial action notices
  Use by dates
  European Competition Network
  Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill
  Town centres v out of town developments
• Insolvency - Summer 2012
  Under duress in tough economic times?
  More time for insolvency practitioners
  Rest assured, the confusion over validity of appointments remains

• Commercial - Summer 2012

  Do members of an LLP have the fiduciary duties to each other?
  Marketing Law: Recent guidance from ASA on misleading website advertising
  International Commercial Contracts: Why governing law is so important
  Competiton Law: Rebate investigation results in €24 million fine
  IT Law Update: Generic top level domain name applications
  Email chain can create enforceable guarantee
  Cookies: The new law is in force
  

• Employment - June 2012
  Are you in the business of sub-contracting services?
  Social media dismissal
  Mandatory retirement age
  Injunction relief
  Property assignments and TUPE
  The reasonableness of rejecting a settlement offer
  Effective date of termination - is the claim in time?
• Commercial - Spring 2012
  IT Law update
  Commercial Agency Agreements
  Data Protection Controversy
  Intellectual Property: Specsavers appeal over Asda marketing campaign
  Can a Fixed Share Partner of a Limited Liability Partnership ever be an employee?
  Intellectual Property: something fishy going on?
  Rainy Sky SA v Kookmin Bank: common sense in contract interpretation
• Employment - March 2012
  Continuity retrospectively restored when employer consented to withdrawal of resignation
  Equality Act 2010 and post-employment victimisation
  Non-solicitaton clauses
  Springboard injuctions
  Vicarious liability
  Employment tribunal update - Increased payments, and Removal of wing members
  
  
• Corporate 2011 Round Up
  
  

• International - February 2012
  UK Bribery law has worldwide effect
  
  

• Employment - January 2012
  Length of service and the implications on sickness absence investigations
  Equal pay claims: material factor defence
  Whistleblowing and the duty on employers
  TUPE: automatic unfair dismissal
  Statutory holiday and the need for notice
  An update on marital discrimination
  Further update on Employment Tribunal Reform
  
  
• Insolvency Update - January 2012
  Pre-packs - no new legislation at this time

• Employment - May 2013
  Disability: cause, effect and obesity
  Covert recordings can be admissible as evidence, providing you apply properly!
  Vague claims of victimisation are not enough
  Question: when is a Limited Liability Partnership not a Limited Liability Partnership?
  Assessing injury to feelings and aggravated damages in discrimination cases
  Is it possible to be overcautious in avoiding bias in redundancy selection?
  A final written warning may indeed be final
  Following the correct process is as easy as A,B,C... or is it?