The danger faced by employers of their confidential information being released via social media websites reared its head once again.

ATE insurance can provide some security for defendants looking to recover a costs award, but you may not be able to rely on it to the same extent as conventional security.

A number of recent cases have highlighted the risks for employers in managing their employees’ use of social media.

Eighteen months after Rawlison Butler LLP won its application in the leading Court of Appeal case of C v D, Michael Axe from our Commercial Disputes Team looks at how the Court of Appeal’s decision has been applied to other cases involving Part 36 Offers and what the future may hold.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are hugely important and very valuable assets to businesses, therefore protection against and enforcement in respect of the infringement of those rights should be pursued vigorously and taken very seriously.

Off the record or without prejudice discussions can be a useful tool for employers when attempting to resolve a dispute with an employee. However, simply labelling the discussion as ‘without prejudice’ does not necessarily mean that it cannot be revealed later at Tribunal.

Legal Profession Privilege is a form of confidentiality covering communications between clients and their lawyers, which provides clients with an absolute right to refuse to disclose such communications in legal proceedings.

What is the new cookies legislation? And does your website comply with it? Kay Miles from our Commerce & Technology Team look at cookies in further detail.

One of the greatest impediments to an ‘amicable’ divorce is the sheer complexity of the issues surrounding pensions.

There are perhaps very few absolutes in litigation, but one thing that can be said with some certainty is that even the best case in the world will fail if it is not commenced within the required "limitation period".

When the property market collapsed in the 1990s, there was a corresponding rise in Lender Claims against Surveyors for losses suffered as a result of negligent valuations carried out during the "boom years".

Commerce & Technology Partner Mark O’Shea considers recent fines imposed for data protection transgressions, and the potential cost of these to businesses.

The High Court in the recent case of Toth v Emirates (Nominet UK as intervener) struck out an appeal relating to an abusive domain name registration.

During the course of litigation, some legal documents need to be served upon the other party.

Stuart Evans of Rawlison Butler LLP examines the financial and reputational cost of employee fraud, and how you can combat the enemy within.

The phrase "no win, no fee agreement" has come to be used as a blanket term for a number of different alternative funding arrangements.

SMEs wanting to take advantage of the benefits of the Patents County Court must conduct themselves in a manner which is suitable for the PCC system. This was the indication of the Court in the recent case of Comic Enterprises Ltd v Twentieth Century Fox [2012].

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recent UK decision and the forthcoming European Court of Human Rights hearings on dress codes underline the importance to employers of getting their dress code policies right.

More than half a million people in Britain turn up to work with a hangover and, during Euro 2012 and possibly also during the Olympics, this figure is likely to soar. The knock-on effects of football or sport mania can cause huge headaches for employers.