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  • Time to pay closer attention to Stamp Duty

    Reino Unido 18.02.1998
    Stamp duty has rarely been regarded as a "serious" tax and comparatively little effort has gone into mitigating it. This is likely to change following the introduction in the Budget of the 2% charge for...
  • Pricing claims - key points to consider when making any claims, statements or indications in relation to price.

    Reino Unido 18.02.1998
    Complaints against a Ford dealership, recently upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority, over its claim "that we simply refuse to be beaten", have highlighted again the problems that can be encountered...
  • Employment and pensions: Part-time proposal

    Reino Unido 18.02.1998
    The Commission has tabled a Proposal designed to give effect to the framework agreement on part-time work. This agreement was concluded by employers' representatives (UNICE), trade union representatives...
  • Supplementary protection certificates

    Reino Unido 18.02.1998
    More than one for the same product certainly - but who to? - and what about the damages? In the last patent review we reported the Advocate General's Opinion in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in...
  • The right not to enter into a highways agreement

    Reino Unido 18.02.1998
    In the Spring issue of Cameron Markby Hewitt's "Property Update" we looked at the important case of R v Warwickshire County Council ex p Powergen Plc in which the High Court ruled that a highway authority...
  • European legislation update: Community Patent

    Reino Unido 18.02.1998
    The Commission has published a Green Paper proposing a Community Patent. The Commission has decided that the Community Patent Convention will not come into force and that a new initiative is needed. The...
  • Politics and policies: Modifications to Europe agreements

    República ChecaHungríaRomania 18.02.1998
    Several significant changes have been made to the Europe Agreements which link the ten associated countries of Central and Eastern Europe who are candidates for EU membership. Most changes have been made...
  • Intellectual property/telecommunications: New regime for marketing terminals

    Reino Unido 18.02.1998
    The Commission has published a draft Directive which aims to simplify the marketing of telecommunications terminal equipment throughout the EU. Telecommunications terminal equipment includes all equipment...
  • Environmental Assessment 2

    Reino Unido 18.02.1998
    The need for environmental assessment was relevant in the High Court's decision in March of this year in Berkeley v The Secretary of State for the Environment (1997) regarding the development of Fulham...
  • A review of the Fujitsu case

    Reino Unido 18.02.1998
    What can you patent in the UK? Fujitsu on appeal We reported the English High Court's decision in Fujitsu in the last UK Patent Review, when the application was dismissed on the grounds that this was "a...