Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass [1971] UKHL 1

Disclosure: Privileged upbringing

Richard Farnhill resumes his assessment of the current law of privilege ‘Cotton LJ divides agents into two camps: those responsible for obtaining legal advice and all the rest. Only communications between the lawyer and the former camp are protected. There are significant issues with that approach.’ In the first part of this article, I examined …

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Vicarious Liability: Pushing the boundaries

Adam Ohringer considers the effects of the Supreme Court ruling in Mohamud v WM Morrison Supermarkets plc ‘In Mohamud, it was argued in the Supreme Court that the test for vicarious liability needed to be recast to be both more expansive and simpler to apply.’The concept that an employer is vicariously liable for the wrongdoing …

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Contract: Return to sender

Anthony Woolich, Simon Burden and Jaime van der Eb consider the implications of the Bribery Act and the Proceeds of Crime Act for the ‘innocent’ company ‘A contract that has been entered into because of the payment of a bribe is not automatically void.’The Bribery Act 2010 came into force on 1 July 2011. Readers …

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