Articles

Corporate articles:

• 13 Jan 2012
  Who's in control of your charity?
  Lauren Scott, Charity law expert, discusses the lessons to be learnt from the recent Shetland Charitable Trust case study.
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• 24 Nov 2011
  Data protection – it’s not nice to blag!
  This summer’s newspaper headlines were dominated by the phone hacking scandal, and other questionable – and arguably unlawful – tactics used by journalists to get their hands on a scoop.
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• 11 Oct 2011
  Data protection – it’s not nice to blag!
  Lauren Scott discusses questionable tactics used by journalists to get their hands on a scoop.
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• 30 Sep 2011
  Changes to Health and Safety Executive
  The Health and Safety Executive are soon to be placed under a non-discretionary legal duty to recover costs from duty holders found to be in material breach of health and safety law.
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• 28 Sep 2011
  Protecting customer details online: lessons from Lush
  High profile recent examples of companies losing customers’ personal details, such as the hacking of the Sony Playstation Network which is estimated to have cost Sony £105 million, have illustrated the financial and reputational risks of such incidents.
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• 28 Sep 2011
  Bribery Act 2010 – have you thought about your third party contractors?
  Morton Fraser's John Lunn explores third party contractors and the Bribery Act 2010
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• 28 Sep 2011
  Are You A Committee Member – Are You Personally Liable?
  A recent court case caught Iain Meiklejohn's eye regarding the liability of committee members of unincorporated associations
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• 27 Sep 2011
  Are your side letters worth the paper they are written on?
  A side letter can be a useful tool in commercial transactions for a range of purposes: from providing non legally binding reassurance; to documenting last minute contractual amendments or supplemental terms without redrafting the parties’ main agreement.
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• 1 Jul 2011
  Bribery Act in Force Today
  Following years of discussions and consultations, the Bribery Act 2010 (“the Act”) finally comes into force today, 1 July 2011.
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• 1 Jul 2011
  Bribery Act 2010
  The Bribery Act 2010 came into force on 1 July 2011. This article looks at the new law in some detail.
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