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Paul Barrett has been fined £3,500 and sentenced to 250 hours of community service after artificially pushing up the price of items he was selling on the online auction site, eBay. The practice is known...
EDS agrees to pay Sky £318 million in IT contract dispute
EDS and Sky have finally agreed to settle a costly and long-running dispute over an IT contract. In January, the High Court agreed with Sky’s claim that EDS had mis-sold a customer relationship system....
Wake-up call for eBay users as person convicted for bidding against his own items
A man has admitted 10 counts of offences of bidding against an item he was selling on eBay in order to drive the sale price up on the popular online auction site. The case was brought in Skipton Magistrates’...
The Bribery Act becomes law
The Bribery Act received its Royal Assent on 8 April 2010 and duly became law on that date. This reflects Jack Straw's determination to push the legislation through before the end of this session of Parliament,...
Honest belief of something means party could not be deemed to have made fraudulent misrepresentation – FoodCo v Henry Boot, High Court
HB commissioned a third party to provide a report on likely traffic and footfall at a new motorway service station. HB used that report to provide a brochure to attract tenants. The numbers turned out...
Decree NOT Absolute
A legal advisor from Gateshead has admitted eight charges of fraud and forgery and has been banned from providing legal advice as a condition of her bail. Lillian Rayne took £720, intended to cover...