The Computer and Communications Industry Association which represents many rivals of Microsoft, has urged a US judge to reject a recently proposed Microsoft settlement. Microsoft recently offered to donate $1.1 billion in software, training and PCs to the poorest schools in the US in lieu of making payments to the 100 or so individuals who brought a class action antitrust suit against the company.
Ed Black, president of the Association, claims in a letter addressed to a Baltimore US District Court Judge that the settlement “would do nothing to deter future anti-competitive conduct by Microsoft and would inflict great harm upon the technology markets affected by such conduct.”
This guide outlines some of the key tax issues to consider when setting up a subsidiary in the UK. It assumes that the subsidiary will be a private company limited by shares, although other legal forms are available.
Important questions of UK copyright law are set to be considered by the Court of Appeal in London next year in a case in which a dispute has arisen over intellectual property rights relating to AGA cookers.
The High Court of Australia has reinstated a AUS$1.4 million (US$900,000) award of damages to an employee who was summarily dismissed in breach of the employer’s binding grievance procedures. In doing so, the court reversed the well-understood 115-year-old position that damages for psychiatric injury are not recoverable by an employee for an employer’s breach of the employment contract.
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