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Keeping confidential lending policies out of professional negligence litigation

Our Professional Negligence litigation team looks at the tension between preserving confidentiality and a defendant’s right to argue about causation in the case of Ward Hadaway v DB UK Bank.
14 November 2013

Defamatory material on websites – is the website host liable?

Website operators will shortly have a defence to claims of defamation arising from statements posted by others on their sites provided they can show that they did not themselves post the statement.
14 November 2013

Pensions disclosure clarified and simplified

Clearer and simpler rules about the information schemes must give to members come into effect on 6 April 2014.
11 November 2013

Pension liberation: HMRC measures and Court decision

Following today's High Court ruling, HMRC has introduced new measures that will help schemes identify transfer requests that might lead to liberation.
11 November 2013

Fair Deal, fair clarity

Private sector participation in public sector schemes will replace broadly comparable schemes and bulk transfers, the Government has confirmed.
11 November 2013

Deferred premium: availability and merits

Buying-in with a deferred premium is increasingly recognised as an attractive option for employers keen to de-risk with limited cash outlay upfront.  
11 November 2013

Professional negligence in failing to explain the effect of documents

Our professional negligence recovery team considers the role of professional negligence in failing to explain the effect of documents.
11 November 2013

What is reasonable notice for termination of a supply contract?

Contracts without express termination provisions and, in particular, unwritten contracts with implied terms are usually terminable on reasonable notice. So what is reasonable notice?
08 November 2013

A practical question of keeping documents from your opponent

The legal principle of ‘privilege’ is a theoretical concept which proves very hard to apply in practice. What does in mean from a litigation perspective?
06 November 2013

Can one band member claim “The Animals” trade mark?

John Steel, the former drummer of the 1960s band “The Animals”, has been refused the right to register the band name as a UK trade mark.
05 November 2013

Confirmation of a UK 'opoly' monopoly

Is Galatopoly too similar to Monopoly for use in connection with games? Would the customer be confused into thinking the games were necessarily related?
05 November 2013

Sale of goods – when a retention of title clause works

Ian Tucker from our disputes and litigation team comments on the case of Fadallah v Pollak as a sequel to Wilson v Holt from a litigation perspective.
30 October 2013

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