If you think that your business is safe from lawsuits and other legal disputes because it isn’t in the financial industry or is of a small size; you couldn’t be more wrong. In today’s society, any and all types of business can be sued by disgruntled customers or unsatisfied business associates. By providing a service …
Apple’s legal team are likely to be taking another battering this week as it is revealed that yet another lawsuit has been filed against the company. The complaint this time is over the newly released super-gadget, the iPad, which has been selling in its millions. In a lawsuit filed in California last week, three plaintiffs …
Just weeks after losing his licence, a mechanic at a garage in Aberdeen crashed a customer’s car into another vehicle. Garage worker Charles Munro, 26, took the Ford Focus Ghia – owned by Susan Cruickshank and her husband Richard – for a test drive after working on fixing the brakes. The test drive ended in …
A woman who claims that her employer discriminated against her on the grounds of her age has been awarded more than £3,000 by an employment tribunal. Anna Stirrup, who was 50 at the time the complaint was made, used to work at Summers Dry Cleaners in Cookstown. She was a shop manager who worked five …
It has recently been revealed that Chinese search engine Baidu, the third largest in the world, will be proceeding with its professional negligence claim against its domain register, Register.com. Baidu is suing Register following a hacking attack on their account last January by a group calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army. The hackers apparently contacted …
The popular New York band Vampire Weekend may have just scored a number one album with their latest offering, Contra, but they are also facing a serious legal battle over the album cover. A $2 million lawsuit has reportedly been filed against the band and their record label XL (who it is presumed will cover …
As a business owner, you can’t have helped noticing the number of compensation claims, lawsuits and employment tribunal cases appearing in the news. Many speculate that we are now living in a ‘compensation culture’, where anyone disgruntled with anything can and will sue for damages. Small businesses are particularly at risk, as they don’t have …
England’s second most senior judge, Lord Justice Neuberger, has ruled against Times Newspapers Limited in a libel lawsuit over a newspaper article. The lawsuit centres on Gary Flood, a detective sergeant for the Metropolitan Police, who alleged that his character was defamed in an article appearing in the Times back in 2006. Mr Flood claimed …
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his legal team are facing yet another lawsuit over the popular social networking site. Mr Zuckerberg is being sued by programmer Paul Ceglia, who alleges in a civil lawsuit filed in New York recently that he owns 84 per cent of the website. Ceglia claims that he signed a contract …