COMPANYspy Blog

@COMPANYspy London

A light hearted blog from Magrath LLP Solicitors keeping you in touch with Company & Commercial Law; business news, boardroom banter and legal developments.

Articles Date
It’s all up the Greek!  April 2014 
Home Office announcement  April 2013 
Is the World closing in on Google?  April 2013 
Slanderous posts prove expensive  April 2013 
Children enticed to buy  April 2013 
ONE-SIDED PLAN  March 2013 
Get ready for the “Late Payments of Commercial Debts Regulations 2013”  March 2013 
Cymru gets set for new settlement   March 2013 
File-Sharing a no-no  March 2013 
Football Fiasco  February 2013 
Beware of signing on the dotted line   February 2013 
Consumer Rights (Payment Surcharges) Regs 2012 published  January 2013 
Further development with “Midata”  January 2013 
OFT “web-sweeps” Price Comparison Websites  January 2013 
Supreme Court of Ireland does some (re)jigging of the Law  January 2013 
Boxing Brand’s fisticuffs with Sportswear Giant led to Injunction  January 2013 
Congratulations or should that be Pozdravlyayu!   January 2013 
David Little of Magrath LLP interviewed by BBC News for his views on #timewasting #ballboy  January 2013 
A high cost for Spam  December 2012 
Hung up  November 2012 
End of an Innings  November 2012 
RFU in a ‘Ruck’ Over Tickets  November 2012 
You’re never too old  October 2012 
What a blow....  October 2012 
Bowled over!  October 2012 
Models but not as we know them  October 2012 
When is remote too ‘remote’?  October 2012 
Will you Share?  October 2012 
Deep Purple  October 2012 
Google to Offer Buy Now, Pay Later  October 2012 
Another Bite of the ‘Cookie’  October 2012 
Congratulations are the Order of the Day  October 2012 
Not all football clubs need a mystery Sheikh  October 2012 
OFT Cleans Up  October 2012 
AIM Briefs Its Nomads  October 2012 
McClaren fails to hide his ‘extra-marital’ Liaisons  September 2012 
Confusion over Exclusion Clauses  September 2012 
“Ole, Ole”  September 2012 
Straight to Jail – do not pass go  August 2012 
“Save the Date”  August 2012 
Forget Air Guitar, grab your pipe and hanker-chiefs...  August 2012 
“Should have gone to....”  August 2012 
10% Corporation Tax on Profits....yes please  August 2012 
“Midata” coming soon  August 2012 
Caught on Candid Camera  August 2012 
Trans-Pacific News  August 2012 
It's only a name.....or is it?  July 2012 
OFT crackdown on “W.I.G.I.G.” daily deal websites  July 2012 
Time for Cymru to lay down the law?  July 2012 
Orphan Control – and we don’t mean Annie  July 2012 
Free Holiday to Spain!  July 2012 
Fly for £1....Really?  July 2012 
Tablets cause pain  July 2012 
Lingerie Retailer Gets Its Knickers In A Twist  July 2012 
"Sorry I am unable to locate your details"  July 2012 
Virgin Media and BSkyB in battle over a War of Words  July 2012 
Treat Me  July 2012 
Online Auction Site creates a Stir (and a fine)  June 2012 
To Tweet or Not to Tweet....  June 2012 
Oh Matron!  June 2012 
Facebook ‘tags’ on to mobile app privacy laws   June 2012 
Eating Sweets; Playing with Toys; Spread betting; Which is the Odd One Out?  May 2012 
Facebook; say “cheese”  April 2012 
Facebook comes to rescue the market!  April 2012 
IN PRAISE OF SUPPORTERS TRUSTS  April 2012 
Should you be paid more when your employer has a very busy week?  March 2012 
Online Terms and Conditions: does anyone actually read them?  March 2012 
Claimant going over the Glee top?  March 2012 
Fuel shortage whilst world’s biggest oil buyers discuss releasing more oil into the market!   March 2012 
The Queen shreds Fred Goodwin’s Knighthood  February 2012 
Inventor teed off with Intellectual Property Office over unpatentable golf-swing invention  February 2012 
Advertising Standards Authority Up in the Air over Ryanair’s ‘Sexually Suggestive’ Ads  February 2012 
Wishing you could fast forward pay day?  December 2011 
New Age Criminals and Operation Ghost  November 2011 
Cymraeg parth cyfenwad? It’s all Welsh to me……  November 2011 
Court officer now speeding his way to prison  November 2011 
Let’s hope Santa can still find his way!  November 2011 
Red Card for Rio  October 2011 
Clerk speeds their way to prosecution  October 2011 
Playing for an all black balance sheet  September 2011 
Customers: don’t rollover to their demands!  September 2011 
Owing money to the tax man for failing to tell him that you didn’t owe him money in the first place   September 2011 
This isn’t just any complaint, this is a super complaint! OFT launches investigation into foreign currency charges  September 2011 
Out of a Job  August 2011 
Kaiser Chiefs, the new Mystic Meg?  August 2011 
A Bitter Battle Brewing in Yorkshire  July 2011 
Tutti Frutti Coming To Covent Garden  July 2011 
What’s hiding in your closet; Moths? Narnia? A family?  July 2011 
When the cookie doesn’t crumble  July 2011 
Where’s my bathroom?  July 2011 
Bye Bye News of the World  July 2011 
Has the OFT’s super-complaint investigation led to a super-result for consumers in relation to foreign currency charges?   
Time for the pirates to walk the plank   
Red Bull take to the skies...   
“Midata” coming soon   
Not every Cloud has a silver lining   
Lonsdale to go another round    
Alleged “philandering” politician denied injunction   
10% Corporation Tax on Profits - yes please   
Hands off our wheels!