contracts

Dec

2021

Employment Contracts and the Implication of Terms by Custom and Practice

Written by Sydney Mitchell

Workers wishing to discern the extent of their entitlements need usually do no more than read their employment contracts. As one case showed, the occasions when further rights are to be implied into a contract, having been established by custom and...

Aug

2021

COVID-19 – Procurement Dispute Focuses on Award of Face Masks Contract

Written by Dean Parnell

The means by which the government procured urgent supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic have been the subject of fevered debate. However, as one case underlined, it is a feature of a free society...

Jun

2021

Commercial Dealings Within Families – Don't Dispense with the Formalities

Written by Roy Colaba

Entrepreneurial families have an unfortunate tendency to dispense with professional contract drafting and make commercial arrangements orally between themselves. A judge's ruling provided a clear example of the intractable difficulties that can...

Sep

2020

Data Protection – delegating due diligence to others is rarely enough

Written by Roy Colaba

Businesses commonly engage data aggregators and list owners to perform direct marketing campaigns on their behalf. However, as a guideline case showed, such delegation does not relieve them of the obligation to check that recipients of unsolicited...

Jul

2020

Spotlight on Corporate democracy as Small Shareholders take crushing loss

Written by Roy Colaba

Concerns that small shareholders are the victims of a deficit in corporate democracy, having little influence over the direction taken by the companies in which they invest, were highlighted by a High Court case concerning a troubled mining company...

Jun

2020

Project speed...

Written by Shilpa Roopen U...

There has been an update on “Project Speed” from Boris Johnson today that may be of interest in relation to proposed planning changes. Under what Mr Johnson dubbed "project speed," planning laws would be streamlined to encourage building. Changes,...

Jun

2020

'Pay now, argue later' – High Court enforces contract adjudicator's award

Written by Katie Maxwell-S...

Contract adjudicators' awards, even if disputed, must generally be satisfied straight away. That principle – often referred to as 'pay now, argue later' – was applied by the High Court in ordering an immediate six-figure payment to a small building...

Jun

2020

Part-time football referees are self-employed, Tax Tribunal rules

Written by Andrew Ward

Part-time referees who officiate at professional football matches on a game-by-game basis are not employees. Confirming their self-employed status in a guideline case, the Upper Tribunal (UT) noted that they are so motivated to work that there is no...

May

2020

Fixed-Term employment contracts mean what they say

Written by Sydney Mitchell

Fixed-term employment contracts mean what they say and expire at the end of their terms without the need for any notice of termination. The Court of Appeal so ruled in a case which clarified the interrelationship between fixed-term contracts and...

May

2020

Closed the Deal? Is a Broker who helped you entitled to a commission?

Written by Andrew Ward

Commercial contracts are often concluded through the medium of specialist brokers with expert knowledge of particular markets. However, brokers will generally only earn a commission if their efforts are the effective cause of the deal being struck...

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contracts

Employment Contracts and the Implication of Terms by Custom and Practice

COVID-19 – Procurement Dispute Focuses on Award of Face Masks Contract

Commercial Dealings Within Families – Don't Dispense with the Formalities

Data Protection – delegating due diligence to others is rarely enough

Spotlight on Corporate democracy as Small Shareholders take crushing loss

Project speed...

'Pay now, argue later' – High Court enforces contract adjudicator's award

Part-time football referees are self-employed, Tax Tribunal rules

Fixed-Term employment contracts mean what they say

Closed the Deal? Is a Broker who helped you entitled to a commission?

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