Firms Urged to Impose Penalties for Late Payments

by EasyEditor Newswire   Contracts between firms which include late payment clauses need to become a common feature of everyday business practice, claim legal experts ahead of an EU update of a directive aimed at tackling business failures. On average, the majority of small and medium firms have to wait at least 41 days longer …

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Websites Suffering Under-Investment as Designers Face Tough Competition

  by EasyEditor Newswire                                                                                                                                                             16/12/2010 Web designers across the UK are routinely over servicing and under charging clients in a bid to keep the e-commerce revolution on track, claim experts. While 72% of website designers have seen a rise in expectations from their SME clients the majority are struggling to maintain increasingly sophisticated sites on …

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Crackdown on Unfair Terms & Conditions

  by EasyEditor Newswire Firms have been warned to make sure their terms and conditions are clearly defined after the Office of Fair Trading announced a crackdown on contracts which are detrimental to customers or breach consumer protection laws. Currently around 70 per cent of enforcement cases handled by the OFT relate to terms and …

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1 in 4 websites break the law.

A trend in online retailing – a quarter of all websites don’t have the correct legal protection for their customers.

Ebola Clauses – where do you stand?

As Ebola continues to spread, over 13,000 people have now contracted the deadly disease. Major airports are operating Ebola screenings for arrivals from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, but as of yet no shipping ports have followed suit. The International Maritime Organisation has ordered that all ports are to remain open to allow trading to …

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