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The recent decision of the Company Names Tribunal in "MB Inspection Limited v Hi-Rope Limited" highlights that care should be taken to avoid choosing a company name which could affect the goodwill of an existing business.

The case of "Kohli v Lit and others" serves as a recent reminder that directors must consider how their decisions may affect the interests of minority shareholders.

In its decision in the recent case of Eaton v Caulfield, the English Chancery Division (Companies Court) highlighted the importance of the members of partnerships formalising their relationship by way of a partnership agreement.

The default judicial rate of interest is currently fixed at 8% which compared with the prevailing market rates appears pretty generous.

Judicial review proceedings that started in the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) of the Royal Courts of Justice earlier this week could impact on the way in which charity law operates in relation to fee-charging independent schools and potentially all fee charging charities.

In the recent Scottish case of "Inveresk plc-v-Tullis Russell Papermakers Ltd [2010] UKSC 19", the Supreme Court considered the remedy of retention and its application to separate but related contracts.

The sellers acknowledged that there had previously been a dispute with a company called Chambers Finance Ltd but, as far as they were aware, the matter was at an end.

Since the Bribery Act 2010 came into force on 1 July 2011, for the first time, anti-bribery due diligence has become a necessity for companies undertaking mergers, acquisitions and investments.

The Scottish Crown Office announced today that some £5.6 million of profits gained from unlawful behaviour is to be recovered by the Scottish Civil Recovery Unit from Abbott Group Limited (Abbot) after it confessed to benefitting from corrupt practices in 2007.

On 4 August, following the Serious Fraud Office's (SFO) investigation into Associated Octel Corporation (subsequently known as Innospec), four former executives were sentenced for their roles in bribing state officials in Indonesia and Iraq.

The Chancellor first announced his plans for an Apprenticeship Levy in the Summer Budget 2015.

Earlier this week, the Pensions Minister, Steve Webb, reiterated his commitment to statutory pension auto-enrolment requirements being implemented in the course of next year. His comments were made in the context of reports that the government was considering delaying the reforms.

The European Court of Justice has recently issued its Judgment in the case of "Prigge and Others -v- Deutsche Lufthansa AG-C-447/09". This Judgment is an important one following the repeal of the compulsory retirement age in the UK.

Unfortunately employment issues, such as those arising from disciplinary or grievance matters, are something which every employer, no matter how good, is likely to experience at some point.

For a service provision change to apply, the legal test is that there must have been, prior to the change, a so-called ‘organised grouping of workers' whose principal purpose was to carry out relevant activities for a relevant client.

OSCR's investigation concerned the Chief Executive's severance package in light of the charity's activities ceasing and, in particular, a discretionary pension augmentation of 6 and 2/3 years’ service, approved by the Trustees, amounting to £232,708.

Section 75 of the Pensions Act 1995 has the potential to mean that, as a result of corporate restructuring (including on employee and TUPE transfers), an employer that participates in a defined benefit occupational pension scheme could have to make a one-off payment (a debt) to the scheme.