Welcome to the July issue of our Legal News.
This month we take a look at a recent High Court ruling on the enforceability of a guarantee where the bank is deemed to have knowledge that undue influence may have been employed; recent evidence of the Irish Courts’ willingness to hand down prison sentences for tax evasion; and a recent European Court of Justice decision relating to Lindt’s chocolate bunny which illustrates the difficulty in proving that a product is sufficiently distinctive to be protected as a trade mark.
To read the articles, please click on the titles below:
- Prison Terms for Tax Offences on the Increase
- Guarantees Under Attack from Undue Influence
- Would-be Employer asks for Candidate’s Facebook Log-in Details
- Battle of the Bunnies
- Practical Implications of Increasing the State Pension Age
- New Retail Planning Guidelines Published
- Testing Times for Tobacco
- The Competition (Amendment) Act 2012 Signed Into Law
- In Short
