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The HMRC has been a source of press attention after a recent ruling found that Lorraine Kelly was not required to pay our a £1.2m tax bill due to her employment status as a freelancer for ITV under contracts for service. This does not come as a surprise for many practitioners of contract law, as …
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The UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee recently highlighted how Facebook misused its customers' private information, breaking UK law and placing data protection at risk in future. Read the report here. This has seen Facebook breach a number of data protection policies across the …
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NDAs are used by businesses, celebrities, and now even presidents – NDAs are dominating the current news cycle. With increasing numbers of leading legal and journalistic professionals turning their eye on those that hold them and the bodies that seek to enforce them, businesses are now finding …
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Section 30(1)(f) Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 - Supreme Court Judgment This appeal considered the construction of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. It specifically considered whether a landlord which intends to carry out works if, and only if, those works are necessary to satisfy s 30(1)(f), and …
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In April this year, the US Court of Appeals (9th Cir.) ruled in the so-called “monkey selfie copyright dispute” that animals cannot own copyright to their works. The ruling settled ongoing controversy over whether selfies taken by an Indonesian macaque monkey in 2011 are the intellectual property …
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