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Rudolf Oetker was a German entrepreneur who took over the Oetker Company from his grandfather (the founder of the Oetker group). When Rudolf passed in 2007 he left his eight children the legacy of the Dr. Oetker group, comprising 400 companies, each heir holding 12.5% of the shares. However, there…
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Whether you are a buyer or seller of a business, the early stages of a transaction are usually the same. There will be, sometimes seemingly endless, discussions, negotiations and bargaining before a deal is struck. At this stage it is sensible to commit the key agreed terms to a document…
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Generally speaking having formalised, professional drafted terms, from a lawyer’s perspective, are always essential for every business. They provide the structure for the working relationship between client and supplier, set out the expectations of the parties on various points ranging from the intellectual property ownership to the total liabilities of…
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Where Personal Data is concerned the landscape is always developing and the most recent development, beyond the EU’s determination of the UK as ‘Adequate’, is the approval and issuing of new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) by the European Commission. We discuss below the instances in which SCCs are necessary, and…
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An employee of Saville Estate Agents is suspended after (allegedly) posting racist tweets on his social media account. But, just like shaggy, he says…’It wasn’t me’! What are the risks for businesses? On the one hand, if the employee has more than two years’ service he is protected from being…
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As part of agreeing a contract with a prospective client a key element of the contract will be the term for which services or goods are to be provided; where there is a fixed project it may be that the term correlates to the delivery of the project itself, but…
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On 28 June 2021 the EU Commission made an announcement on the adequacy decision of the United Kingdom concluding that the UK’s data protection legislation, which incorporates the EU’s GDPR, was adequate. This decision is very positive for the country and especially for business who operate in the UK but…
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The government are preparing to announce a mandatory covid vaccination for all care staff caring for older people with staff being required to have the jab within the next 16 weeks or face the consequences. The Care sector is facing a recruitment crisis and experts predict the new rules are…
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Mr Kane, worked as a driver for Debmat and suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He had had several absences from work inlucidng in March 2020. On this occasion, he was spotted by a colleague (Mr Johnson) standing outside a social club smoking. He appeared to have been hiding…
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