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  • 15 November 2016
  • Corporate and M&A

The Continuing Dangers of Acting on Letters of Intent

Letters of Intent (LOI) are much used by parties at the start of their contractual relationship – usually where there is a need to place orders or start work but the contract and its terms have not been fully finalised.
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  • 03 November 2016
  • Public Procurement

Top Tips for Making Clarification Questions Work For You

Clarification questions are an integral part of any procurement process. Do not be afraid of submitting them – it is better to raise a question (even if it then means that your competitors get the benefit of the responses provided) than to make an incorrect assumption about what the contracting authority wants.
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  • 03 November 2016
  • Litigation and dispute resolution

“Without Prejudice” – will these magic words protect my documents?

Many documents produced in commercial dealings are marked "without prejudice", often appropriately but sometimes not. When used correctly, these words mean that the document cannot be used in legal proceedings against the party who produced the document, nor indeed can that party use the document themselves.
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  • 02 November 2016
  • Corporate and M&A

The Underused Project Bank Account

It is a fact that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for 60% of UK private sector employment and almost half of private sector turnover therefore it is evident that challenges relevant to SMEs are challenges to the UK economy as a whole.A project bank account (PBA) is a term used to describe a payment mechanism under which both contractor and subcontractors are paid at the same time.
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  • 24 October 2016
  • Employment

Big brands face modern slavery challenge

The news broken by the BBC Panorama investigation about refugees and children alleged to be working in Turkey on clothes for Marks and Spencer and ASOS, whatever the facts are found to be, highlights the challenge of supply chain management and risk to big brands of being linked with such accusations.

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  • 11 October 2016
  • Commercial Real Estate

For Landlords – a Section 17 reminder

It was possible during the recession of the late 1980s and early 1990’s to sue original tenants and previous assignees on covenants given in leases when the party to whom the lease had been assigned became insolvent. In some cases, many years had passed since the assignment and many original tenants would have forgotten about any continuing liability.On 1 January 1996 the Landlord and Tenant Covenants Act 1995 came into force.
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  • 10 October 2016
  • Corporate and M&A

Controlling Legal Cost: A brief guide for startups

Small, agile, businesses frequently report that legal services are too expensive and too opaque, and it is no surprise that these businesses end up turning to existing sources of advice in an attempt to deal with legal problems.

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  • 07 October 2016
  • IP and Commercial

Start-up businesses: are your ideas protected?

When you are a start-up, contracts and intellectual property protections are not, understandably, at the forefront of your mind. However, protecting your ideas and creations is just as important as getting your business off the ground.
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  • 06 October 2016
  • Commercial Real Estate

Elected Union Officials were agents under the Equality Act

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that two elected workplace union officials, despite not being the union’s employees, were its agents and therefore the union could be held liable for their acts of discrimination against an employee.
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  • 06 October 2016

Is the ‘gig’ up for Britain’s self-employed delivery workers?

Long gone are the days when the postman delivered every parcel. Nowadays, we don’t bat an eyelid when the person knocking at the door is a courier in an unfamiliar uniform. But while it might not make much of a difference to customers, opening up the delivery market has an impact on workers.
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  • 30 September 2016
  • Corporate and M&A

Directors duties and Pyrrhic victories – what are the ingredients for a successful claim?

The defection of directors to a competing company is often a matter of concern for their former employer.

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  • 30 September 2016

Whistleblowing detriment claims

In the recent case of McTigue v University Hospital Bristol NHS Foundation Trust the EAT clarified that agency workers can bring detriment claims against end users provided the end user (on its own or in conjunction with the agency) has substantially determined the terms of the worker’s engagement.
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