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The distinction between employment and self-employment is a continuing source of controversy and a...

Judgments for debt would hardly be worth having if there were no bailiffs to enforce them....

Directors of struggling companies all too often place payment of tax at the bottom of their...

One of the key requirements for a patent for a technical process innovation to be successfully...

Payments under building contracts can be a touchy issue and have led to numerous disputes....

Once an employee succeeds in establishing facts that arguably support a finding of discrimination,...

Businesses that deal or hope to deal with one another often have to put security concerns to one...

National boundaries pose little or no obstacle to tax evasion. The Court of Appeal made that...

The Government is duty-bound by European law to ensure that specified air quality standards are...

Large companies frequently engage outside contractors to assist with storage of the vast...

In Asda Stores Limited v Brierley , the question before the Court of Appeal was whether or not...

A limited company has a legal personality all of its own, but an unincorporated firm does not. As...

Industrial processes can be noisy and those responsible for them frequently worry that complaints...

Irreverent and foul-mouthed banter is commonplace in some working environments and does not...

It is often optimistically considered that trading on eBay and similar online sales platforms is...

The existence of oral agreements is easily asserted but very hard to prove, and that is one good...

The first Intellectual Property Enterprise Court case heard outside London took place recently ,...

Weak economic growth and increasing competition is still wreaking havoc in the High Street and the...

To defeat a claim of direct discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 , the employer must show...