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  • Litigation annual review 2002: Corporate social responsibility

    United Kingdom 04.04.2002
    A serious business issue Businesses of all sizes increasingly need to demonstrate their ethical behaviour to stakeholder groups. The risks to business from failure to meet society's expectations are growing,...

  • Litigation annual review 2002: Class Actions

    United Kingdom 04.04.2002
    The calm before the storm? Procedural mechanisms to aggregate individual claims can seem superficially very attractive to politicians and consumers as a means of increasing access to justice. This issue...

  • Litigation annual review 2002: Property disputes

    United Kingdom 04.04.2002
    Conflicts with the overriding objective Parties in dispute are compelled by the Civil Procedure Rules (" CPR") only to commence proceedings as a matter of last resort. This approach is particularly well...

  • Litigation annual review 2002: Pushing the boundaries in advertising

    United Kingdom 04.04.2002
    2001 saw increasing attempts by advertisers to use "shock" tactics in advertising, pushing at the boundaries of taste and decency and also in relation to comparative advertising. The most well known and,...

  • Litigation annual review 2002: Commercial disputes

    United Kingdom 04.04.2002
    Woolf and ADR In July 1996 the Right Honourable Lord Woolf, Master of the Rolls, as he then was, published his final report "Access to Justice" incorporating the first draft of the new Civil Procedure...

  • Litigation annual review 2002: Intellectual property

    United Kingdom 04.04.2002
    Parallel imports and repackaging Despite decades of case law there is still much uncertainty surrounding the status of repackaged parallel imports within the European Economic Area (EEA). However, the...

  • Litigation annual review 2002: Banking fraud

    United Kingdom 04.04.2002
    Letters of credit and performance bonds Banking fraud Letters of credit and performance bonds It is a well-established principle that a bank is obliged to pay a beneficiary under a letter of credit if...

  • Litigation Annual Review 1

    Czech RepublicRomaniaUnited Kingdom 28.03.2002
    The first year of the new millennium has seen the number of legal disputes started in the High Court continuing to decline, following the sweeping reforms of Lord Woolf and the increase in confidence in...

  • Overseas Commission Payments

    United Kingdom 11.02.2002
    Part 12 of the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act comes in to force on Thursday, 14 February 2002. Its effect is to extend the existing Prevention of Corruption Acts to payments made to overseas agents...

  • GPS Directive: Distributors' Obligations

    United Kingdom 05.09.2001
    Various amendments have been agreed in Brussels to Directive 92/59/EEC on general product safety which will extend obligations on distributors of consumer products under the forthcoming 2001 Directive....

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