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As we all run into the last week of the Christmas shopping frenzy and the inevitable sales, the combination of a climate where money is tight and the desire for a bargain could mean some of us end up paying a high price for fakes. The criminal underworld gear up for this period and millions of poor quality counterfeits will be hitting the UK market stalls and car boot sales.
Warnings from the UK IPO indicate that we all should be particularly aware of the following types of goods which may have all the external appearance of the genuine article:
A new campaign – www.realdealmarkets.co.uk- which is supported by the Trading Standards Institute, has been developed to help consumers choose markets and stalls that have been vetted by trading standards. The question is why – is the consumer really that naïve? It is not only the counterfeiters that should bear the blame for this burgeoning criminal industry, the average consumer knows that when he or she is getting a bargain that’s too good to be true then it probably is too good to be true. While consumers obviously need protection they also need to take more personal responsibility for contributing to one of the UK’s growing criminal industries, including restrictions on any remedies available to them.
As has been widely reported this week, some 3,000 UK workers are taking part in a six month trial to assess the viability of a four-day working week without any reduction in their normal pay.
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In Nissan v Passi, the High Court recently considered the issue of an employee retaining confidential documents belonging to his former employer in the context of the employer’s application for an injunction seeking the return of such documents from the employee.
The UK government is considering extending this power to depart from retained EU case law to additional lower courts and tribunals, namely the Court of Appeal in England and Wales and the High Court of Justice in England and Wales and their equivalents.
Lord Justice Arnold has applied the guidance of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to the evidence before him, in the long standing trade mark dispute between Sky and Skykick.
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