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Automotive
- Commission proposes to promote green transport via procurement rules - April 2008
Charities
- Charities act 2006 - independent schools - more on public benefit - October 2007
- Wills & charities - October 2007
- Independent schools & public benefit - a precis of our recent seminar. . . - July 2007
- Charity brief - May 2007
- Charity update - whose land is it anyway? - April 2007
- Charity law update - November 2006
- Charity focus group bulletin - September 2006
- Charity law update - June 2006

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China
- Martineau publish a weekly update on China provided to us by our Chinese Consultant Jimmy Wang. To view any of these updates please click on the following link
Commerce

Advice for Education Institutions - July 2008
Legal risk management for business - April 2008
The direct selling industry - a multi-national business growth channel for the consumer products business - February 2008
The unfair trading regulations - clamping down on sharp practices - and more! - January 2008
The european contract law project - January 2008
Not only the alligators bite in Florida! - December 2007
How to cope with the evolving law on privacy and data protection in direct selling…… And still succeed! - December 2007
To what extent can you let your distributors run their own independent businesses? - September 2007
Corporate manslaughter bill receives royal assent - August 2007
Legal do's and don'ts in the tools business - May 2007
Current issues for UK DSOs - May 2007

Commercial
- EC public procurement - a guide to public procurement for the private sector - February 2008
- EC public procurement - a guide for local authorities - February 2008
- Due diligence and cartels - December 2007
- Golden rules for trade associations - August 2007
- Dawn raids - July 2007
- Consumer goods & associated guarantees - June 2007
- EU contract law reform - May 2007
- Publish or be damned! - January 2006
Competition & Procurement

Update - The OFT Investigation into Cover Pricing in the Construction Sector - August 2008
Improved rights of remedy for breach of public procurement rules - March 2008
Category management - what are the competition law problems - March 2008
Competition law compliance - March 2008
The €38 million Seal - February 2008
Leniency Applications - February 2008
Competition, procurement & utilities regulation team - February 2008
Public contracts - powers of amendment that are too wide - January 2008
Settlement of first representative action in the UK - consumers to be compensated for being overcharged - January 2008
Trade associations - a useful forum or a potential cartel? - January 2008

Construction
- The draft construction contracts bill? - July 2008
- Golden rules for the construction industry - August 2007
- CDM regulations 2007 - April 2007
Corporate
- Avoiding Conflict - Deal Point - October 2008
- Financial Assistance Re-Visited - Deal Point - April 2008
- Martineau Johnson give Traffic Light Deal the 'Green Light' - March 2008
- Capital Gains Tax Reforms "Entrepreneur Relief" - Deal Point - January 2008
- Corporate group advises on continued expansion - December 2007
- Due diligence and cartels - December 2007
- Corporate Manslaughter & Corporate Homicide Act 2007 - Seminar Follow up - November 2007
- AIM admitted companies - duties and responsibilities of their directors - October 2007
- M & A team advises on double acquisition - October 2007
- Capital gains tax reforms - Deal Point - October 2007
- Companies act 2006 - changes coming into force on 1 October 2007
- Martineau Johnson advises on the sale of 'Aspen' - to Capital Hartshead - September 2007
- Corporate manslaughter bill receives royal assent - Deal Point - August 2007
- The fraud act 2006 - Deal Point - April 2007
- Quoted companies & the transparency directive - January 2007
- Companies act 2006 - electronic communications - January 2007
- Companies act 2006: a briefing note for plc clients - January 2007
- The companies act 2006 - December Dealpoint - December 2006
- Incorporating your dental practice - what you need to know - August 2006
- Confidentiality agreements - Deal Point - August 2006
- Dentists - limiting your personal liability - July 2006
- Further changes to UK merger policy - Deal Point - May 2006
- New TUPE regulations have arrived - Deal Point - March 2006
Done Deals
- Issue 1 - July 2008
Education
- Advice for Education Institutions - July 2008
- Avoiding Conflict - New Laws for Company Directors - July 2008
- Discrimination update - July 2008
- Legislation update - June 2008
- EC public procurement - a guide for universities (including higher education colleges)
- EC public procurement - a guide for further education colleges
- Corporate Manslaughter & Corporate Homicide Act 2007 - Seminar Follow up - November 2007
- Traffic diversion to the ascension island - September 2007
- Companies act 2006 - its impact on education institutions - September 2007
- Strike action - legal update- September 2007
- Corporate manslaughter receives royal assent - July 07
- Companies act 2006 - new requirements relating to web sites and e-mails - May 2007
- The challenges of assessing fitness to practise - April 2007
- New duty to promote disability equality - April 2007
- Changes to disability discrimination law - April 2007
- Private bodies and the disability equality duty - April 2007
- Charities act 2006 update - disclosure of information to/by HEFCE as principal regulator - March 2007
- Innocent misrepresentation, mere lie or criminal offence? - January 2007
- Disability discrimination case - examination candidate successfully brings claim against qualifications body - January 2007
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- A climate change bill - and more emissions trading? - December 2006
- Charities act 2006 - legislation update - December 2006
- Equality update - September 2006
- Changes to the further and higher education provisions of the dda - August 2006
- Staff and the lecturers’ pay dispute - some frequently asked questions - May 2006
- Students and the lecturers’ pay dispute - some frequently asked questions - May 2006
- Law lords clarify travellers human rights issues for public authorities - March 2006
- Do not be inhibited by the foia - March 2006
- New policy on charter & statute amendments published - February 2006
- Changes to disability discrimination law - January 2006
Employment
- Are there any alternatives to redundancy? - “lay offs” & “short-time working” - December 2008
- Ball -v- University of Aberdeen - a ground-breaking case? - August 2008
- Equality Bill - New Government Proposals - July 2008
- Credit Crunch: Will You Need To Cut Costs? - July 2008
- House of Lords Overhauls Disability Discrimination Law - July 2008
- UK Coal Mining Ltd -v- The British Association of Colliery Management - November 2007
- European court of justice hands down decision in important age discrimination case - October 2007
- New TUPE regulations have arrived - Deal Point - March 2006
Energy & Utilities
- Stop press - first part of climate change package agreed - December 2008
- Renewable Energy - Will Bioenergy Deliver the Target? - September 2008
- Renewable energy - centralised electricity - September 2008
- Transport - Reducing Emissions with Biofuels - September 2008
- Have your say - renewable energy - September 2008
- Distributed Energy - The challenges Ahead - September 2008
- Roll on renewables - The enduring access regime - July 2008
- Energy efficiency - is there more to be done? - July 2008
- Renewable heat - no longer the poor relation? - July 2008
- Climate change bulletin - budget 2008 - March 2008
- 20-20 vision? europe's climate action and renewable energy package - February 2008
- Biofuels - smoke and mirrors? - January 2008
- Energy bulletin - climate change - more litigation on the horizon? - November 2007
- Utilities bulletin - climate change law - are binding emissions targets the solution? - July 2007
- Utilities bulletin - the energy white paper 2007 - June 2007
- Climate change bulletin - carbon reduction ommitment - May 2007
- Biofuels update - 2020 vision - May 2007
- Utilities bulletin - a climate change bill - and more emissions trading? - November 2006
- Utilities bulletin - state aid & renewable energy - september 2006
- Utilities bulletin - nuclear - new build? - September 2006
- Utilities bulletin - energy review - think small! - July 2006
- Turning the spotlight on the biomass to biofuels solution - March 2006
- Utilities bulletin - power cuts - know your rights - January 2006
International
- Not only the alligators bite in Florida! - December 2007

Landed Estates
- Heritage Protection Bill - July 2008
- Heritage Protection Bill - June 2008
- Stumped - liability for damage caused by trees abutting the highway - September 2007
Planning / Environmental
- Planning and environment bulletin - December 2008
- Planning and environment bulletin - November 2008
- Planning and environment bulletin - October 2008
- Planning and environment bulletin - July 2008
- Planning and environment bulletin - June 2008
- Planning and environment bulletin - April 2008
- Planning and environment bulletin - February 2008
- Planning and environment bulletin - December 2007
- Planning and environment bulletin - October / November 2007
- Planning and environment bulletin - September 2007
- Planning and environment bulletin - July 2007
- Planning and environment bulletin - June 2007
- Planning white paper - June 2007
- Planning and environment bulletin - May 2007
- Making development pay: an update on the use of S106 agreements, the introduction of PGS and local government structures - follow up - May 2007
- Planning and environment bulletin - April 2007
- Planning and environment bulletin - March 2007
- Planning and environment bulletin - February 2007
- Planning and environment bulletin - January 2007
- Planning reviews and reforms update - January 2007
- Solicitors in local government: local development frameworks: the process & pitfalls - 8 December event follow up
- Planning and environment bulletin - December 2006
- Planning and environment bulletin - November 2006
- Planning gain supplement - November 2006 update
- Local government white paper climate change - October 2006
- Planning and environment bulletin - October 2006
- Planning gain supplement update - October 2006
- Social housing update - September 2006
- Our green and pleasant land… - September 2006
- Planning and environment bulletin - September 2006
- Times up - planning flyer - September 2006
- Social housing update - August 2006
- Contaminated land liability inherited by statutory successors - June 2006
- Brownfield or garden? - March 2006
- Making development pay: the planning gain supplement - 26 January 2006
Private Client
- Wills & charities - October 2007
- Budget 2006 - March 2006

Projects
- The latest on pfi refinancing - May 2007
- National audit office report confirms high cost of bidding for pfi projects - March 2007
- Report on operational pfi projects by partnerships UK - May 2006
Property

No complete disregard for a tenant - November 2007
Housing green paper - August 2007
Residential tenancy deposit schemes - July 2007
Enforcing informal agreements - July 2007
Within these walls... - May 2007
Walk this way? obviously not - November 2006
A question of balance?...the function of real estate investment trusts in the UK property industry - October 2006
Service charge code - September 2006
New bill to address health concerns over telecommunications masts - January 2006

Real Estate
- Rents in the credit crunch - caught between a rock and a hard place? - December 2008
Venture Capital Trusts
- Budget 2006 - March 2006

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