FIT and RHI: new acronyms to conjure with

As if energy, and renewable energy incentive schemes in particular, wasn't complicated enough already, two new schemes (and their obligatory acronyms) are due to be introduced in the next year or so.

What do you do when you haven't got time to consult?

Real life and legal obligations - not always a happy mixture. In real life things don't go to plan - customers change their minds and demand changes in your work plan. Suddenly you don't need as many people or for as long as you expected.

Former directors who set up in competition: the first post-Companies Act 2006 case comes to light

A company law case decided last year is the first reported case in England and Wales to examine the provisions of the Companies Act 2006 that govern conflicts of interest in the context of the appropriation by directors of their company's business opportunities.

Reproduction of Opel logo on imitation toy cars does not infringe trade mark rights

The ECJ's ruling in the Opel v Autec toy cars case in January 2007 was a landmark in European trade mark law. The case is always referred to whenever the question of whether "trade mark use" is required to establish trade mark infringement arises.

The innocent purchaser v the innocent finance company: who gets better title?

Nemo dat quod non habet or, as they say in English, no one can pass better title to goods than they possess. But there are exceptions to this principle of English law.