(AFX UK Focus) 2005-09-29 10:35 GMT: Heineken to continue legal proceedings against InBev on brewing system patent (Interactive Investor)
(AFX UK Focus) 2005-09-29 10:35 GMT: Heineken to continue legal proceedings against InBev on brewing system patent (Interactive Investor)
BRUSSELS (AFX) - German beer giant Heineken NV said it will pursue its legal challege against Belgian peer InBev SA to claim that its home brewing system PerfectDraft infringes intellectual property rights.
SYRIA: New law to free up municipal elections (AlertNet)
DAMASCUS, 28 September (IRIN) - A new law for local administration will allow Syrians in the next local elections to elect candidates of their choosing for the first time ever, according to government officials.
Avoiding redundancy traps (Legal Week)
Employment : Employment lawyers thankfully no longer need to rehearse the various legal tests when advising on questions of redundancy. However, redundancy law continues to generate new issues for the employment tribunal to determine, as illustrated by several recent cases .
Solicitor scores a legal win (Harlow Citizen)
AN experienced legal secretary who was sacked by a firm of solicitors six weeks after announcing her pregnancy has won her case against her employer. Derrinda Bilgin’s working life was made unbearable after she informed her firm, solicitors Foskett, Marr, Gadsby and Head she was expecting.
CORRECTED - UPDATE 1-UEFA homegrown quotas seen breaking EU law (Reuters.co.uk)
In STRASBOURG story headlined ‘UPDATE 1-Soccer-UEFA homegrown quotas seen breaking EU law’ the penultimate paragraph has been corrected to make clear that Chelsea were the first English team to field an entire team of overseas players.
DLA Piper flexes long arm of the law firm (Edinburgh Evening News)
ANOTHER week, another deal for DLA Piper - or so it would appear. In the last couple of months, the global law firm has taken on around 80 lawyers from Ernst & Young’s Russian practice, opened what bosses touted as the biggest practice in Moscow and…