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The Digital Economy Act: Radical New Legislation to Clamp Down on Piracy
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Simon Cowell thinks it's great. The Carphone Warehouse hates it. One thing's for certain: the Digital Economy Bill will revolutionise copyright. Chris Elwell-Sutton looks at the likely future landscape for Britain’s music industry and other creatives.
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How Fit are your Employees?
From April 2010, the fitness of employees is something that will be reviewed by employers. This does not involve sits-ups, push-ups or anything to do with a treadmill, but rather is a replacement of the current system of “sick notes” which has been in need of an overhaul for some time now. Victoria Russell bids you a welcome to the new age of the “fit notes”.
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Employment Tribunal Awards – New Limits
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In his annual review of Employment Tribunal Awards, Senior Employment Partner Nick Lakeland outlines the new figures, effective from this month.
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Are you Lending Money? STOP and Read this Article First!
If you are lending money, you would naturally want to have the best chance of having that money repaid or, if the loan becomes a bad debt, you will want to recover the maximum amount possible. Asil Albayaty notes that many of our clients come to us when it is too late, and explains why it is important to plan ahead in order to avoid litigation to recover monies.
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Pots, Kettles, Black… Calling it Right on Pensions
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In recent editions, Pensions Partner Jennie Kreser has elaborated on the sorry state of the Defined Benefit pension scheme and its probable inevitable demise at the hands of poor regulation, economic circumstance and Government interference. With spring on the horizon (well, possibly), Jennie now looks at the bright new future, which, for these purposes, is not the dreadful NEST but the Defined Contribution or Money Purchase Scheme.
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In the Lap of the Law Makers….
You may know them as lap dancing clubs, but they are soon to be reclassified under an amendment to the 1982 Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act. Licensing Partner Maria Guida considers major changes in the laws affecting the lap dancing industry.
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Consider your Powers Now: In the Interests of your Loved Ones
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Life can present circumstances which mean your loved ones require help looking after their financial affairs. You may think that, because you are their next of kin, you will be able to help them. This is not the case, not without going through a heavily prescribed and expensive court process.
To avoid this, they need to grant you authority through a Power of Attorney. Without such a document in place, institutions, such as banks and building societies, will not deal with you on their behalf, even if you are their next of kin.
Associate Andrew Kidd and Claudia Whibley explain why you need to act now.
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Keep Open? A Closed Case in English Law
In times of economic hardship retailers may consider closing their least profitable outlets, which would result in abandoning their premises. Most would not remember they had signed up to keeping their business open, but does this promise have any meaning in English Law?
Senior Property Partner Richard Gordon explains this key obligation of a shopping centre tenancy.
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