Recent articles
Please browse a selection of our most recent articles
by service area below (please click on the links below for articles on these areas).
Clinical Negligence
Commercial
Commercial Property and Development
Construction
Dispute Resolution
Employment
Industrial Disease
Personal Injury
Tax Planning
Clinical Negligence
Commercial
Provision of Services Regulations 2009 - January 2010
Auditors' limitation of liability - are we really any further forward? - Accountancy Age, September 2009
Financial Times Q&A (Data Protection Act) - August 2009
Financial Times Q&A (contracts) - August 2009
Companies Act 2006 - changes in 2008 - September 2008
IP/IT update - September 2008
Trading in periods of financial uncertainty - September 2008
New rules on consumer protection - September 2008
Director beware - September 2008
Contract update - September 2008
Commercial Property and Development
There has never been a better time to extend the lease on your flat - November 2009
Top ten tips on buying licensed premises - November 2009
Developers beware - when an easement is not enough - November 2009
Unlocking equity in agricultural land - November 2009
Top ten tips for remortgaging - November 2009
Rating revaluation - get ready - November 2009
Using your power as a tenant - Growth Business, September 2009
Scrutinising Section 106 Agreements - RICS Business, September 2009
The theme is green - Carbon Reduction Commitment is looming - April 2009
Top ten tips for tenants - how to negotiate the best terms in this unusual market - April 2009
BREEAM standards - commercial property must meet "green" requirements - April 2009
Self help for landowners - all is not lost despite the downturn - April 2009
Top ten tips for landlords - how to have the edge in a "tenant led" market - April 2009
LPA Receivers - understand their powers and end the myths - April 2009
Landlord’s consent - April 2007
Introduction to property issues for businesses - April 2007
Surplus land solutions - April 2007
Planning update on Local Development Frameworks - April 2007
Business and the environment - a delicate balance - April 2007
Construction
LADS - Penalties or a Genuine Pre-Estimate of Loss? - September 2009
New 'polluter pays' regulations extend the scope of environmental liabilities for construction companies - September 2009
Jurisdiction challenges to adjudication - responsibility for the adjudicator's fees - September 2009
Thomson Snell & Passmore appointed as panel solicitors to SusCon Enterprise - September 2009
Thomson Snell & Passmore's Construction Team - future events - September 2009
Proposed Reforms to Adjudication Procedure – 5 December 2008
The Draft “New” Construction Act - April 2009
Negotiation & Enforcement of Performance Bonds - Key Considerations - April 2009
Dispute Resolution
Scrutinising Section 106 Agreements - RICS Business, September 2009
Selling overseas and getting paid overseas - some helpful guidance for your business - Kent Messenger, September 2009
Residential letting agent's renewal commissions ruled unfair - The Times, July 2009
There has never been a better time to extend the lease on your flat - The Kent & Sussex Courier, July 2009
Kill Bill could be blunted by the economy - Construction News, April 2009
Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act update - April 2009
Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008 Update - April 2009 Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations 2009 - April 2009
Employment
Nicholson v Grainger plc - the next instalment - January 2010
Equal rights for agency workers - January 2010
Swine flu FAQs - January 2010
Whistleblowing - a timely reminder - January 2010
Cook v MSKH Limited and Ministry of Sound Recordings Limited - be careful not to be too nice - October 2009
Gisda Cyf v Barratt - time is of the essence - October 2009
Liability for discrimination extends further than you think - October 2009
Heyday - the High Court rules - October 2009
Sickness and annual leave - further clarification or further questions? October 2009
Tips, troncs and the minimum wage - July 2009
Nicholson v Grainger plc - It's not easy being green - July 2009
Can homophobic banter be discriminatory where the victim is known to be heterosexual? The Court of Appeal decides - July 2009
Counting the cost - It pays to tell the truth - July 2009
Stringer v HMRC - The House of Lords rules - July 2009
Sick notes - A chance to have your say - July 2009
Childcare vouchers and maternity leave - Personnel Today, June 2009
Retirement ages - Has the Heyday challenge failed? - November 2008
London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm - Has the Disability -
Discrimination Act 1995 changed forever? - November 2008
November's round of miscellaneous legislative changes - November 2008
RBS v Harrison- Tales of the "unexpected"
Making people redundant - the pentagon
Wilkinson v Springwell Engineering Limited - You're never too young to bring a claim - September 2008
Agency Workers - Where are we now in Euro zone? - September 2008
Clyde Valley Housing Association Ltd v MacAulay - Sometimes the employee gets it wrong - September 2008
Some good news at last on the future of the 48-hour opt out?
- September 2008
Industrial Disease
Personal Injury
What is combat stress? (Dr Walter Busuttil) - November 2009
Combat Stress - the charity (Dr Walter Busuttil - November 2009
From the Thomson Snell & Passmore casebook: A v MoD - November 2009
Supporting veterans - November 2009
Planning a memory rehabilitation programme (Barbara A Wilson) - July 2009
Minor brain injury - the unseen injury - July 2009
Who is really chasing the ambulance? - July 2009
In the legal news - July 2009
Time to tackle health and safety myths - Kent on Saturday
RTA focus - Master Z - August 2007
Are you breaking the law? - August 2007
RTA focus Miss X - August 2007
The Lord Chancellor’s big “but” - August 2007
Putting the injured person first - APIL accreditation - February 2007
Gavin's story - February 2007
Making sense of funding care arrangements - February 2007
Who's who in brain injury - February 2007
Tax Planning
