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New Covent Garden win a farm – land in the soup
New Covent Garden win a farm – land in the soup When New Covent Garden Soup Co teamed up with their sister company Farmhouse Fare to offer the chance for punters to win a farm worth £500,000, few would have suspected that they would be landed in the negative PR soup that they now..
read moreDangers of Social Networking – TripAdvisor lessons
Dangers of Social Networking – TripAdvisor lessons A belated welcome to 2012. First off, for any marketeers seeking to involve themselves in ambush marketing at the forthcoming Olympic Games, they should think very carefully before doing so and ensure that they familiarise themselves fully with the government regulations that have been issued to restrict certain..
read moreBribery Act update – make mine a large one…
Bribery Act – its in our back pocket The Bribery Act 2010 has been in force for nearly 6 months now. Yawn, yawn, yawn. It got talked about a lot – as these things do, but I find that not many businesses actually did much about it. The Bribery Act is one of many..
read moreTimes online corporate subs – pay attention or pay twice
Times Online Ok, so one of our clients comes to us this week with a bit of a problem. They have a need for a 10 user corporate licence with TimesOnline. They had this arrangement for the last 12 months and it cost them £500 or so. Only now, the Times don’t want to..
read moreFees – Is industry cheated of real commercial legal advice?
Fees – just too expensive? Why do you not use lawyers more? Could it be prohibitive cost? It has always amazed me, even when in private practice, why so many people have to spend so much money per hour on legal services and fees. There is a real disconnect between the fees that people..
read moreInterns – anyone fancy exploiting a volunteer?
Interns – exploit away… Yes? well do so at your own risk…. In recent weeks we have received a number of queries from clients – high quality employers – who have been using the services of interns. So far so good. But they have been paying the interns expenses only to cover travel or..
read moreTUPE – and the marketing industry
TUPE – oh do stop moaning The news today that Lexis and (allegedly) The Red Consultancy are in fisticuffs about the TUPE transfer of employees on the loss of the 7 figure Boots account is surprising, mainly because anybody regards it as a surprise at all. TUPE has been around for 30 years and..
read moreContracts – let them be a good servant, not a poor master
Contracts – just copy someone else’s…. One of the more dubious practices that has been ushered in by the internet age, is the serial cribbing of contract terms and conditions from third party websites. Anybody with a legal background will tell you that template or precedent contracts (which is essentially what cribbed contracts are)..
read moreHacking – Why the rich adulterer should thank the NOTW
Hacking and the future of Gagging Orders Jeremy Bentham, the 19th Century jurist and philosopher once wrote “publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. It keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial”. Its all gone a bit wrong..
read moregagging orders – “Be like Dad, keep mum”. Or maybe not….
Gagging Orders – really such a big deal? The super-injunction (or gagging orders as they are more commonly known), an apparent weapon of the easily seduced rich, have become the current vogue legal topic. Its hard to see how a change in the law isn’t going to result from the seemingly widespread use of..
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