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Watch out if. On a TUPE transfer you acquire employees who are covered by a collective agreement

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • February 27 2013

You may find that you are bound by terms agreed by other people after you become the employer. In 2002 the London Borough of Lewisham's leisure

Unfair dismissal: does the UK provide adequate protection?

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • November 20 2012

No, says Strasbourg

Hot topics in pensions

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 20 2012

The High Court considered whether the pension plan trustees could use a discretion in the rules to switch to CPI for indexing deferred and pensioner benefits

VAT’s a sacrifice employers may have to make

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • November 9 2011

We reported in our August 2010 Review (please click here) that the European Court of Justice had ruled in Astra Zeneca UK Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs Case C-4009 that employers would have to account for VAT on retail vouchers provided to their employees under salary sacrifice arrangements because the supply of vouchers is treated as the supply of services to the employees for VAT purposes

ECJ rules that prohibitions on sale and use of foreign TV decoder cards for viewing football matches breach Article 101 TFEU and freedom to provide services

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 3 2011

On 4 October 2011, the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) gave its ruling on questions referred from the England and Wales High Court, in relation to the use of foreign satellite decoder cards for the broadcast of English Football Association Premier League matches

When can you prevent someone using your registered trade mark as a keyword?

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 20 2011

Generally, unless specific defences set out in UK or EU legislation and case law are met, owners of registered trade marks can prevent others from using identical signs in respect of goods or services which are the same as or similar to those for which the mark is registered

Promotions scam banned by OFT goes to European Court

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • September 27 2011

Earlier this year the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) was successful in taking court action against a company called Purely Creative in relation to five prize promotions it had marketed

The battle between L’Oréal and eBay rumbles on

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • July 27 2011

The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has recently given its judgment in the case of L’Oréal v eBay, in response to the questions referred to it by the English High Court

Litigation

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • June 10 2011

The General Court has dismissed appeals by Elf Aquitaine SA (and its subsidiary, Arkema France) against a Commission decision that imposed a fine for price-fixing and market-sharing in relation to sodium chlorate paper bleach

European patent strategy: a helpful framework

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • November 11 2010

Selecting the right forum for patent litigation is often considered to be something of a 'black art'