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Scottish employment law: small but significant differences can be a trap for the unwary Scotland has always prided itself on having its own legal system, distinct from the rest of the UK and based on a unique combination of influences and ... Read more	Rent in administration proceedings: a headache for landlords An important area of insolvency law – the liability of a company in administration to pay the rent under the lease of its premises – which until recently had been relatively ... Read more
Revisiting Bartoline The decision in Bartoline v Royal Sun Alliance [2006] has some commentators arguing that the door has effectively been shut on recovering environmental ... Read more	Case report: JP Vishnu Kumar v Canara Bank PN Road, Tiruppur & ors In the case of JP Vishnu Kumar v Canara Bank PN Road, Tiruppur & ors [2013], the Honourable Supreme Court of India had ... Read more
Product liability and dietary supplements The market for dietary supplements in 2012 was estimated to be worth approximately £385m in the UK alone and is worth billions of dollars globally.¹ Sarah Croft, of Shook Hardy & ... Read more	Getting the breaks In the context of any company restructuring or reorganisation, the presence of a break clause in one of the company’s leases is a valuable thing indeed. This ... Read more