Whilst reading the latest IoD Director Magazine, we came across an article entitled, “Talking Tough” about deal making. Point 10 was a quote from Jeremy Shaw the Chairman of a marketing agency and is headed “Keep lawyers under control.”
“Lawyers do a wonderful job of telling you what might go wrong,” says Shaw,”but the danger is [...]
We saw this wonderful article in the Obiter section of the Law Society Gazette and thought that we would share it with you in full.
“Obiter is grateful to professor Phil Thomas of Cardiff Law School for sending in a new snippet from the Hindu English languages newspapers in India. A four-foot snake slithered into a [...]
Having previously set out the issues for employees who are on holiday and therefore absent from work, another issue has arisen in the legal press.
Some employees are also now rumbling and talking of bringing claims against employers. These fall into two categories.
Firstly, there are those who were stranded abroad whilst working. Already we are hearing [...]
There has been a lot of coverage in the news about the volcano, its disruption to travellers and tales of up to 150,000 UK residents stranded abroad. It seems quite extraordinary and almost bizarre circumstances unheard of in modern times.
However, amongst all the implications being considered very little attention has been given to the employment [...]
We welcome the Ministry of Justice proposals to review and reform the libel jurisdiction. We do very little work involving any form of libel and defamation, but that is really the point. We see a handful of clients each year who have on the face of it valid libel claims. The libel procedure is hugely [...]
Going back to the case of Tullett Prebon and BGC Partners mentioned previously, there is another interesting quote in the Times. Tony Verrier had left Tullett Prebon to join BGC Partners and had tried to take a number of brokers with him in breach of their covenants.
Quoted in the Times, Friday 19 March 2010 at [...]
The people of Exeter may sleep safely in their beds in the knowledge that a crack team of 16 police officers were trespassing in their homes, collecting their valuables together and placing them in nicely designed swag bags on their kitchen tables (The Time March 30 2010). This stunning initiative apparently was an attempt to [...]
One of the interesting things about the Tullett case was the evidence trail. 10 years ago, an employer seeking to enforce a restrictive covenant had a much more difficult job. One could point to the fact that an employee had left and joined a competitor and the unsurprising coincidence that many customers had changed their [...]
Male Admin writes:
We, the men of Cambridge have proudly puffed out our collective chests at this week’s gratifying news that top scientists at the University of Cambridge have declared that man flu is no myth (Daily Telegraph 24 March 2010), it is real, we suffer far more than women and most importantly of all, we [...]
Of course Fowler de Pledge does not do family work, but we noticed a piece in the Law Society Gazette that a Manchester firm is suggesting that couples make an agreement outlining who gets the family pet if they split up. This is described predictably as a “Pre-Pup” – a joke that even Andrew Brewer [...]