Alerts
Alerts archive 2010

Charging interest for late payment

The rules on when interest can be charged on commercial debts paid late may be changing.

Government procurements and contracts - new transparency requirements

On 29 May 2010 the Prime Minister wrote to the Secretary of State listing data and documents which will be made publically available by government. It raised a number of fundamental questions.

Avoiding a freight: preparing for Incoterms 2010

Major changes to freight delivery terms are afoot.

The International Chamber of Commerce today officially launches 'Incoterms® 2010' in Paris. Impacting anyone selling, buying or supplying goods internationally, Incoterms are freight delivery terms which are reviewed every decade.

E-disclosure - are you ready to sign?

Disclosure is an integral and essential part of the litigation process and in turn electronic disclosure is of growing importance within that disclosure process. 

Before you charge in - Part 9. At the heart of it: repudiatory breaches and termination

Poor performance, failure to meet deadlines, and failure to pay on time may all amount to breaches of contract. However, not all breaches of contract entitle the non-breaching party to treat the contract as terminated.

Retaining legal professional privilege following the Akzo judgment

On 14 September 2010, the Court of Justice of the European Union gave its much awaited judgment in Akzo Nobel Chemicals Ltd and Akcros Chemicals Ltd v European Commission.

Rights to light - a worrying tale for developers

The High Court has granted a mandatory injunction requiring the removal of two floors of an office block after they had been completed because they infringed the right to light of an adjoining owner. Wragge & Co's real estate experts analyse the effects of this potentially worrying decision.

Liberating the NHS: Regulating healthcare providers

The Department of Health is consulting on a range of radical initiatives linked to the Health White Paper. One of these: 'Liberating the NHS: regulating healthcare providers', concerns its proposal to establish Monitor as an economic regulator for the healthcare sector.

Consultation, consultation, consultation

A key principle of English democracy is that the courts do not interfere with the will of parliament.

A new & improved patents county court?

Many of the proposals to reform the junior Intellectual Property Court of England and Wales (the Patents County Court) put forward by the Intellectual Property Court Users Committee last year will come into effect on 1 October 2010.

Specsavers v Asda - UK court focuses on Asda's unfair advantage taking (but provides no clear view on how to establish trade mark infringement by dilution)

Specsavers has successfully established that Asda infringed its community trade mark for the word "SPECSAVERS" by Asda's use of the tag line "Be a real spec saver at Asda" during its 2009 campaign to promote its in-store opticians.