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  • “Contractor’s Duty to Warn Restated”

    United Kingdom 24.01.2000
    When looking for commercial clarity, conflicting legal authorities are the last thing you need. Whether a Contractor has a duty to warn a client of design defects when it is not contractually responsible...
  • Courts Uphold Consultant’s Right to Payment where Anticipated Contract Fails to Materialise

    United Kingdom 24.01.2000
    As Judge Bowsher QC noted in the case of VHE Construction plc -v- Alfred McAlpine Construction Limited (14th April 1997) it is remarkable how often uncertainty about the very existence of a contract, and...
  • Proposed media mergers: CC sends issues letter

    United Kingdom 24.01.2000
    The Competition Commission (CC) sent an issues letter on the 24th January 2000 to the main parties in its inquiry into the mergers between Newsquest/Newscom, Johnston Press/Trinity Mirror/Newscom. It is...
  • OFGEM welcomes the introduction of the new Utilities Bill into Parliament

    United Kingdom 21.01.2000
    The Director General of OFGEM, Callum McCarthy, welcomed the passage of the Utilities Bill through Parliament which began on the 20th January 2000. The Bill aims to modernize its energy markets and stream...
  • New EU Directive 98/61/EC brings in number portability requirements

    United Kingdom 21.01.2000
    Under new European legislation, all telecoms operators and service providers are now required to let customers keep their fixed telephone numbers when changing to a different telephone company. (OFTEL...
  • Status of the debate on amendments to the General Product Safety Directive

    United Kingdom 21.01.2000
    STATUS OF THE DEBATE ON AMENDMENTS TO THE GENERAL PRODUCT SAFETY DIRECTIVE Directive 92/59/EEC on general product safety (the GPS Directive) became mandatory on 29 June 1994. It is a measure based on consumer...
  • Land Agreements and the Competition Act

    United Kingdom 21.01.2000
    Government publishes 'final' Draft Exclusion Order relating to Land Agreements and the Competition Act The Department of Trade and Industry has published what is likely to be the last draft of the land...
  • Equalisation of GMPs 1

    United Kingdom 20.01.2000
    The Pensions Ombudsman has found in favour of a complainant (an actuary) who claimed that the trustees of the Sedgwick Group Pension Scheme should have equalised the Guaranteed Minimum Pension element...
  • Alanod obliged to give undertakings following acquisition of Ano-coil

    United Kingdom 20.01.2000
    Kim Howells, Competition and Consumer Affairs Minister, announced on 19th January 2000 that he had decided that Alanod Aluminium-Veredlung GmbH & Co (Alanod) should provide undertakings in respect...
  • Directive on electronic signatures

    United Kingdom 19.01.2000
    Directive 1999/93 on a Community framework for electronic signatures has now been published. As expected, it applies the internal market principle of free movement to facilitate the use of electronic signatures...