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2003

Email newsletters archive 2003:

Company Commercial
Date Document Description
November 2003 Directors' duties - directors have a duty to the Company, not the group


Commercial Litigation

Date Document Description
September 2003 Cheques - accepting cheques and dishonoured cheques
January 2003 Exclusion clauses in sale of goods contracts

Construction
Date Document Description
December 2003 Acceleration of contracts
October 2003 Tendering, adjudication in the Court of Appeal, a fair day's pay for a fair day's work
July 2003 Planning building contracts and step down of manageable risk and duty to warn
March 2003 Levolux A T Limited v Ferson Contractors Limited
January 2003 Mediation - a process which courts openly encourage parties to use
Employment
Date Document Description
December 2003 A big day for new legislation - mobile phones, discrimination and equal pay
September 2003 Loss of chance to claim unfair dismissal
July 2003 Recent cases - human rights, misconduct dismissals and drunken lay members!
July 2003 Proposed changes to legislation - race relations and age discrimination
May 2003 Sex discrimination and agency workers
March 2003 Rise in the national minimum wage
March 2003 Employment Act dti forms

Planning

Date Document Description
December 2003 Use Classes Orders, village greens, Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
September 2003

Time limits on appeals, listed building control, substantial completion and village greens


Property Litigation
Date Document Description
November 2003 Squatters and adverse possession, terminating Assured Shorthold tenancies
August 2003 Enforcing surety covenants when Leases are disclaimed, what is unpaid rent? property nightmare questions (seminar being planned) and town & country planning - listed building control
July 2003 Estate agents commission, surveyor's negligence, what is an improvement? and town & country planning - prescriptive rights of way
April 2003 Protocols of business lease removal and dilapidations claims: act reasonably and be safe
March 2003 Dilapidations - RICS guidelines and lease renewals