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28 Feb 2007
A German company can fight an English customer in the German courts because its terms and conditions said that German jurisdiction applied – albeit those conditions were never sent to the English firm, the Court of Appeal ruled this week.
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28 Feb 2007
Typing should be taught in schools as a way to prevent the suffering of tens of thousands of UK workers from repetitive strain injury (RSI), according to the Trades Union Congress (TUC). The call was made to mark RSI day, which is today.
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28 Feb 2007
Expired formal warnings must never be considered in disciplinary procedures at work, the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has ruled. An employee's dismissal was unfair because an expired warning was a factor in the dismissal, it said.
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28 Feb 2007
The European Parliament has once again postponed the vote on the latest version of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) directive. This time, the delay is to "find a final compromise" on the definition of what constitutes "commercial scale" infringement...
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28 Feb 2007
The government may give police powers to check crash drivers' mobile phone records after a "routine accident", the Daily Telegraph reports.
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27 Feb 2007
The world's major MP3 player manufacturers have been sued in a patent infringement case by a company that began the case the day after it acquired the patent.
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27 Feb 2007
A court battle over energy bills has given fresh guidance to a long-disputed area of contract law. A duty to exercise 'reasonable endeavours' requires less than 'best endeavours' but can demand a sacrifice of commercial interests, said the High Court....
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27 Feb 2007
Software houses must create a whole new kind of service level agreement (SLA) if they start selling their software as a service rather than a product, according to a body which represents software developers.
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26 Feb 2007
The Belgian firm stuck in the middle of a transatlantic spat over the US infringement of civil liberties by the agents of its war on terror is throwing its lot in with the Americans.
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26 Feb 2007
US golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing an education consultancy over allegedly defamatory Wikipedia postings made from that company's internet address.
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