In January this year, his Honour Judge Waksman held that lenders could satisfy their duty under s78 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 to provide a copy of the consumer credit agreement by providing a reconstituted version of the executed agreement which may be from sources other than the actual signed agreement itself.

This is a case reminiscent of the "interest-rate swaps" litigation in which the House of Lords eventually held that English local authorities did not have the power to conclude such transactions.

Following Kraft Foods’ takeover of Cadbury Plc in February 2010, the US company has had its knuckles rapped by the Takeover Panel for its conduct during the offer stage of the deal.

On the last working day before a trial was due to commence, the defendant made an application for an interim order under s252 of the Insolvency Act 1986 to assist him in obtaining an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA).

The Bribery Act 2010 (Act) is due to come into force in April 2011.

Land Registry Direct ("LRD") is a wonderful website. In the bad old days before it was available, one had to order official copies by telephone and wait for them to arrive in the post.

The emergency Budget will be held on Tuesday 22 June, the Chancellor announced today.

As is reported in the press this morning the Lib Dems seem to have the upper hand when it comes to securing their tax aims.

Anyone who has checked the news today will know that HMRC’s latest gaff has resulted in tens of thousands of people over or under paying tax.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on "tackling cross-border inheritance tax (IHT) obstacles within the EU."

In an important case, Robert Gaines-Cooper has been given permission to appeal his judicial review claim to the Supreme Court.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that communications with in-house counsel are not subject to legal professional privilege in cartel investigations carried out by the European Commission, including dawn raids.

The Office of Fair Trading is consulting over proposals for the way pricing information is presented to UK consumers.

A derivative action is an action brought by a shareholder on behalf of the company. Owing to the complexity of the previous law, very few derivative actions succeeded.

A recent case saw the law surrounding statutory wills examined.

This case surrounded the so-called battle of the forms. That is where each side refers to their own terms and conditions applying in their documents such as quotations, orders, order acknowledgements, etc.

Irish property developer Ballymore has won a High Court judgment against a buyer who tried to pull out of the purchase of one of its flats in its Pan Peninsula scheme in London.

A Hungarian consumer entered into a mobile phone contract with Pannon. The terms of that contract provided that the court in Pannon’s locality - some 275 km away from where the consumer lived - would have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.

This case concerned the contract for Omega’s sale of animal by-products to Pears. Pears claimed that the products had to be of category 3 standard rather than category 1 standard and Omega had breached the contract by supplying only to the category 1 standard.

Last Minute Network Ltd (‘LM Network’) applied to register the word LASTMINUTE.COM as a European Community trade mark in 2000 for classes 39 and 42 of the trade marks register.