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Article by Ben Pilbrow and Lucy Arthur How many of you have read the book ‘Silent Messages’? How many of you have even heard of it or its author, Professor Albert Mehrabian? Probably not that many. By contrast, most of you have probably heard the key thesis of the book,
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Cyber attacks are the greatest threat facing advanced economies. So reported a 2018 survey of over 12,000 businesses, though in truth it is but one recent survey of many. The risk that cyber attacks pose is a fact that becomes less questioned with every retelling. But why is it so?
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The Shorter and Flexible Trial Procedures were introduced with the express intention of allowing “dispute resolution on a commercial timescale”. The procedures were introduced after pilot schemes. At the time it was said that: “The aim of both pilot schemes is to achieve shorter and earlier trials for business related
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Negotiating is a part of life. Whether it’s a two year old toddler trying to ‘negotiate’ her way out of eating those vegetables at dinner, a tourist haggling in a bazaar, a salesperson trying to seal the deal or a business executive attending a mediation to resolve a dispute, it
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Through its very recent decision in, Gascoigne Halman Ltd v Agents’ Mutual Ltd, the Court of Appeal (‘CA’), has upheld the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s (‘CAT’) findings, while strengthening the hand of any firm looking to impose ‘semi-exclusive’ obligations/restriction of choice, for so as long as the firm concerned is a new entrant in
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