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30 Jun 2009
The Financial Services Authority's proposed new rules for the retail investment industry will impose a complete ban on commission-based sales and require firms to tell customers from the outset whether or not their advice is independent and how much it...
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30 Jun 2009
A blogger has been acquitted of obscenity offences in a court case that could have redefined UK citizens' right to free speech on the internet. Prosecutors offered no evidence against the 35 year-old.
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30 Jun 2009
One jurisdiction clause in one of hundreds of pages of documents cannot govern the whole agreement because no company acting in a normal commercial way would think that it would, the Court of Appeal has said.
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29 Jun 2009
The Government will create two new public bodies to help protect Government and citizens from digital security threats. It will set up one strategy body and one operations centre to increase the UK's cyber security, it said.
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29 Jun 2009
Employees have the same rights when a company changes service provider as when work is outsourced in the first place even if the new service is not identical to the old, the Employment Appeals Tribunal has ruled.
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29 Jun 2009
Websites should stop masking passwords as users type because it does not improve security and makes websites harder to use, according to two of the technology world's leading thinkers.
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26 Jun 2009
One in four businesses that outsource are planning to renegotiate the terms of their outsourcing contracts in response to the economic downturn, according to a survey of 200 businesses in the UK.
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25 Jun 2009
Companies can use special sending and receiving agencies set up under EU law for the delivery of legal documents even if they are not involved in a court case with the recipients, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.
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25 Jun 2009
The European Commission is bringing proceedings against Germany over the country's insistence that anyone taking patent or trade mark action must have a German address.
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25 Jun 2009
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) imposed a record £27.3m in fines in 2008/9, compared to an annual average of £14 million in the previous five years, according to its annual report published this week.
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