Commercial and Contract

• Insolvency - Parent and Subsidiary in Different EU States

• EU wide insolvency considered

• A Vital Decision Which Affects Us All

• European Court makes vital decision about ciommunity waters and dredging

• Adjudication Feature

• You know the term, but what exactly is an "Adjudication" and does it work?

• Administrators Lose To City Council

• Rates run up during a period of administrators are payable as expenses by the administrators

• Administrators Win On Claims Management Costs

• Insurers take on administrators and lose

• Admission - Can It Be Withdrawn?

• A genuine mistake leading to an incorrect admission can be excusable

• Alarming Bankruptcy Case Upsets Divorce Lawyers

• If this case is right, no ex-wife is safe!

• Arbitrator's Error Not His Fault

• Arbitration appeal not allowed just because of barrister's oversight

• Asbestos Law Feature

• Asbestos regulations are changing but are they so important?

• Assignment of Contract - Industrial and Friendly Societies

• Friendly Societies worry about assignment of debts

• Aussie Companies and UK Courts

• Can an English court deal with an Aussie company?

• BCCI Case and Costs

• Another useful article from Consilio

• Bad Description of Pension Terms - Small Print Rules

• Pension Ombudsman not very pleased with this decision

• Bank Ignores Freezing Order - Who Pays?

• Who do you thibk should be liable for losses if a bank fails to comply with a court order?

• Bankrupt Hiding Assets Does Have Some Rights

• Notice has to be given when seeking committal of bankrupt

• Banks Feel Government Wrath At Last?

• The government takes up the cudgel on behalf of banks' debtors

• Barristers' Contribution to Economy Huge

• Barristers produce report showing how important they are

• Boiler Room Scammers Wound Up

• At long last the Revenue get thrown off stage

• Boy Footballers Agents Reprieved

• Under a8 footballers and their contracts considered

• Business Advice Rationalised

• Government improves business advisory services by reducing them

• Business And Government Meet UP

• Government approaches business for help / to help

• Cadburys Loses Tax Case

• Corporate Tax case falters and fails.

• Carrier Tries To Pass The Buck

• Carrier wants to deny liability but fails

• Companies Act Moves Forward

• The Government brings more of the 2006 Companies Act into force

• Company Directors Not Clever Enough

• Same Directors, Different Company, Same Creditors get the loot

• Company Directors, Shares and Confiscation

• If a criminal company director sees an unrealised increase in his share value, should the "profit" be confiscated?

• Company Law Changing Now - The Law Society Helps

• DTI and Law Society will teach you about Company Law changes

• Company Law Reform Feature

• The Companies Act 2006 has been passed - here are some comments about what it will mean

• Company Reform "Light Touch"

• Company Law Reform Underway

• Company Reform Benefits Small Businesses

• Government boasts of company reforms for small businesses.

• Competition Appeal Tribunal Backs OFT

• Stock Check Pad suppliers hammered by OFT and CAT

• Competition Law, The EU and UK Courts Considered by SPR

• SPR article about the way the EU Commission and the UK courts inter-relate on competition law matters

• Competition Stops Merger

• Don't mess with the Competition Commissioner

• Confidentiality and Employment Restrictions

• Employer's interest in protecting confidential inormation protected

• Construction Contract Construed

• House of Lords looks at Scottish building dispute

• Consumer Credit Agreements And Public Photocopiers Considered

• Is there a consumer credit agreement if there is no liability to pay anything?

• Contempt After Private Hearing Considered

• If no order is made for non-disclosure after private hearing, is it contempt to disclose?

• Corporation Wins Euro Tax Battle

• Corporation Tax Ruling we have all been waiting for.

• Court of Appeal's Guidance on Enforcement Abroad

• Insolvency in EU Companies

• Cross Border Consumers Helped

• EU to help consumers avoid scams

• Debenture Holder's Priority in Liquidation

• Debenture Holder's priority considered after pre-liquidation payment

• Director Loses Disqualification Cancellation Case

• Director's complaint of delay not a winner

• Double Glazing Competition Fine Upheld

• Appeal tribunal upholds enormous double glazing fine

• EU Can Chose Its Own Fine Determinator

• Company cannot avoid fine by running at a loss

• EU Court Guides Austrians About Jurisdiction

• When Austrians fall out, where do they sue?

• EU Courts - Where to Enforce Judgment?

• UK enforcement of foreign arbitration award

• EU Courts - Where to Sue?

• Got to be consensus about jurisdiction of courts

• EU Ruling on Taxation of Companies

• EU blocks another tax saving scheme

• EU Throws Record Industry Into Chaos

• Should the EU interfere with company mergers?

• Effects of Duress Considered

• Who pays damages when contract influenced by duress?

• Employeee Loses Out In Liquidation

• Employee thought he'd got a protective award, but then lost out

• Employment Covenants Considered

• Court of Appeal rules on restrictive covenants within company groups - commercial reality to prevail.

• Endeavouring To Define Endeavours

• Was he being clever usingf "Reasonable" instead of "Best" Endeavours?

• Experts Allowed in Directors Disqualification case

• Government wins right to use expert but only just

• FSA Mis-Applies It's Penalties

• FSA has it's bite muzzled

• Foreign Bankruptcy Proceedings Have Priority?

• High Court Judge decides which bankruptcy court has precedence

• Gas Company Not Liable For Actions of Predecessor

• Who will clear up the mess left by private gas company before 1948?

• H&S Liability of Director

• Officer can be liable for H & S offence

• House of Lords Allows Bribery Arbitration

• Bribery considered in the House of Lords

• Insolvency Practitioners In Government Sights

• Government starts to lean on Insolvency Practitioners

• Insurers Lose on Disclosure of Old Information

• A blow for insurers in case about non-disclosure

• International MP3 Litigation

• Dominant Position in MP3 Market Considered

• Internet Shopping Encouraged

• OFT helps with internet shopping

• Kenyan Judgment Enforcement

• Privy Council rules on enforecement of kenyan judgment with Isle of Man assets

• LLoyds Is Not As Public As You Might Think

• It was a good try, but who decided that Lloyds might be public?.

• Latest UKLawyers Newswire Now Online August 9th

• Newswire Published 09 August 2007 - see all the recent stories in one place

• Liability for Old Environmental Damage

• Contaminated site to be cleared by successeor of polluter

• Money Laundering - Bank Escape Route?

• Does a bank have a efence to money laundering claim?

• Money Laundering Regulation Fight Starts

• The new Money laundering Regs are awful - the Law Society fights

• Money-Laundering Latest Feature

• The Law Society helps us with the latest depressing money-laundering news

• Non-Payment of Discretionary Bonuses Upheld

• Bank's discretion about payment of bonuses upheld despite alleged irrationality

• OFT Busy

• OFT - interim arrangements for informal advice and Guidelines for 3rd party involvement

• OFT Tries New Anti-Competition Ideas

• Competition law re-write pending? Private prosecutions possible?

• OFT Welcomes CAT Judgment on Celesio Judicial Review

• OFT decision upheld on judicial review

• Ownership Trick Actionable

• What happens when you pawn something which belongs to someone else? Who sues who?

• Pension Scheme Winding Up - Gender Issues

• It pensions - its got to be boring - but it matters to some of these pensioners, whatever their sex

• Preferred Creditors - Early Distribution Allowed?

• How many years have we waited for the answer to this question - can preferred creditors be paid out early?

• Receivers Not Adversely Affected by CPR

• Receivers can keep their full costs despite CPR

• Relief In Small Company Tax case

• House of Lords holds in favour of taxpayers - but what if they had not been married, just living together?

• Restrictive Covenants and IFAs

• Court considers retraint of trade in great detail

• Revenue Revises Share Option Guidance

• HMRC issues new guidance

• Ryanair Forced to Change Terms

• RyanAir improves its terms after regulator pressure

• Same Facts, Two Hearings, One Result

• Fact finding need only be told once

• Schemes of Arrangements and Future Changes Businesses

• Schemes of Arrangement subject to future changes

• Shareholder's Liability for Receiving Illegal Payment

• When can shareholders be held liable for illegal payment?

• Small Company Share Valuation

• Company Case has Family ramifications

• Takeover Code Amendments Come Into Force

• Berwin Leighton Paisner explain takeover code

• Tennis and Logos

• Tennis matches, dress code and logos

• Trade Mark Strategy Considered by SPR

• Consider Trade Mark Strategy with SPR

• UKLawyers Archive of Commercial and Contract Materials - March 2006

• The collection of all Commercial and Contract materials published by us in March 2006

• VAT Fraud - Joint and Several Liability

• VAT Fraud - who is liable for the VAT?

• VAT Fraud and the Innocent

• European Court of Justice fair with innocent traders involved in VAT fraud

• VAT and the Nectar Trader

• VAT man loses Nectar points

• VW Car Dealerships Considered

• Even legal contract clauses can lead to illegality

• Voluntary Arrangements And Guarantors

• Who gets priority in Voluntary Arrangements - Guarantors or Creditors?

• Want to Know About Taxes on Depreciation?

• Long tax battle success for big name companies is blow to government. Only recently reported.

• Welsh Rugby Club Makes Legal History

• Complex point about directors and change of ownership embroils small rugby club

• What To Do In Partnership Insolvency?

• Chasing more than one bankrupt partner

• Yell Tied Down

• Good news for solicitors who advertise in Yell