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Construction specialist, Catherine Kay from leading Manchester law firm George Davies Solicitors LLP, helped to judge the Young Professional Awards at the annual Construction Development Alliance (‘CDA’) conference in May.

The cookie monster holds off for now, but he’ll be back for business soon......Everyone is talking about privacy laws and the need for Parliament to legislate for the problems raised by the new online communities such as Twitter, but we haven’t heard much about the EU’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, with new amendments that were set to have full force from the end of May.

Landlords have been left baffled where they stand on the Disability Discrimination Act after the Court of Appeal rejected a claim by a disabled tenant.

The Government has finally issued its long awaited Guidance in relation to the Bribery Act 2010. The Act, which is now due to come in to force on 1 July 2011, simplifies and consolidates existing law on corruption and introduces a corporate offence of failing to prevent bribery, where an organisation may be liable for the actions of any ‘associated person’. An associated person is likely to include employees, agents, contractors, consultants and any companies owned by the organisation.

On 6th April, virtually all of the rules for all of the family courts in England were changed. One of the key changes is that the Courts now have a duty to encourage litigants to use alternative dispute resolution.

A landlord who failed to consult with leaseholders cannot recover the £270,000 spent on the property from the leaseholders, according to a Court of Appeal ruling in the case of Daejan Investments Ltd v Benson and Others.

The 4th Viscount St Davids, Rhodri Colwyn Philipps, was made bankrupt for the second time on 4th March 2011 in the High Court in London.

How many of your clients may find themselves in a situation similar to the scene below this Easter or summer?

Paul Bibby, a partner in the real estate and finance team at mid tier Manchester law firm George Davies advised Scottish based Happitots Day Nurseries Limited, a subsidiary of the Bertram Nursery Group, on a 15 year lease with Peel Developments at Princes Dock in Liverpool city centre.

Companies entering so-called pre-pack administration arrangements will have to deal with TUPE rights for employees.