Articles & Updates
A charitable bribe – oxymoron or reality?
Date: 18 January 2012
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Service: Charities
The idea of a charity, or at least a charity that operates in an ordinary manner and acts in the public interest, committing an offence of bribery would generally be ...
Pannone advises Imperial on acquisition of historic manufacturing site
Date: 19 October 2011
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Service:
Manufacturing at the historic Ideal Standard site in Middlewich will resume once again after it was bought by international sanitary ware giant, Imperial Bathrooms. Imperial, which is part of Hong ...
Substitution of party and limitation – Court of Appeal’s decision this week provides a timely reminder …
Date: October 2010
Publication: Legal Update
Service: Corporate
Court of Appeal allows company to be substituted as claimant in place of administrators, allowing pursuit of misfeasance claim that had been commenced without legal standing and was now statute ...
Administrators’ personal liability for nuisance
Date: May 2010
Publication: Legal Update
Service: Corporate
John Smith & Company (Edinburgh) Limited v Richard Hill, Jonathan Pope and others [2010] The issue The High Court this week declined to give summary judgment against administrators personally, in respect ...
Directors purchasing businesses via pre-pack administration
Date: March 2010
Publication: Legal Update
Service: Personal Injury
Pre-administration costs not to be treated as administration expenses Johnson Machine and Tool Co. Limited [2010] Empire Surfacing limited [2010] Last week the High Court gave reasons why pre-administration costs would not ...
Recent Development: High Court revokes approval of IVA used to "escape" child maintenance
Date: March 2010
Publication: Legal Update
Service: Corporate
Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission v Mark Beesley (1) and Darren Richard Whyman (2) (March 2010) A parent who was required to make child maintenance payments to the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission ...
Insolvency Practitioners risk claim for not advising on section 216
Date: February 2010
Publication: Legal Update
Service: Corporate
Griffin v UHY Hacker Young & Partners (2010) The director wants to liquidate his company, buy the business back and start trading again through a new company. Do you consider that ...
Liquidators and customer deposits – a pragmatic solution
Date: December 2009
Publication: Legal Update
Service: Corporate
In a case reported last week the High Court provided a pragmatic solution for liquidators in possession of funds that were allegedly subject to trust arrangements. The company had been ...
OFT fine six recruitment agencies £39.27m
Date: October 2009
Publication: Legal Update
Service: Commercial; Corporate
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has again flexed its muscles and shown that it is not afraid to exercise its powers by imposing heavy fines on anti-competitive undertakings. ...
An arbitration decision from the European Court of Justice creates uncertainty
Date: May 2009
Publication: Your Company Matters - in Focus
Service: Commercial; Corporate
A significant judgment from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) earlier this year can now affect a party's rights to rely on an arbitration clause in a commercial contract. ...
Acting in your clients' interests may cost you money
Date: May 2009
Publication: Your Company Matters - in Focus
Service: Commercial; Corporate
A footballer successfully took his agent to the Court of Appeal and was entitled to a repayment of his agent's fees. A Solicitor in Pannone's Commercial team, looks at ...
Don’t overlook the small print
Date: May 2009
Publication: Your Company Matters - in Focus
Service: Commercial; Corporate
In the first of a series of articles, Stephen Roper, Partner in Pannone's Commercial team, looks at the importance of getting "boilerplate" clauses correct to avoid parties ...
Do contracts need signing before they are legally binding?
Date: May 2009
Publication: Your Company Matters - in Focus
Service: Commercial; Corporate
Not all contracts need to be signed before they are legally binding. Claire Alden, Partner in Pannone's Commercial team looks at two cases, each with a different outcome, and ...