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Pupils from Bristol primary school decorate Gromit Unleashed 2 sculpture with help from WBD
17 Aug 2018
Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has donated a Feathers McGraw sculpture to St. Mary Redcliffe primary school in support of the Grand Appeal's 2018 Gromit Unleashed 2 trail.
Womble Bond Dickinson advises Middlesbrough Council on a multi-million-pound advanced manufacturing park in the Tees Valley
17 Aug 2018
Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised Middlesbrough Council on a multi-million-pound advanced manufacturing park in the Tees Valley.
BMS Repackaged: European court limits the application of established conditions for re-packaging when adding small labels to parallel imported goods
16 Aug 2018
The free movement of capital, people, services, and goods are the four fundamental pillars upon which the European Union ("EU") stands. The free movement of goods across the EU often creates friction with trade mark owners wanting to control how third parties deal with goods bearing their trade marks.
Watch this space; one code of practice for privately operated car parks is proposed
16 Aug 2018
A bill is currently proceeding through Parliament which when it becomes law is likely to affect anyone who owns and operates private parking for use by the public.
Cessation of activities for five months did not prevent transfer of undertaking
16 Aug 2018
In Colino Sigüenza v Ayuntamiento de Valladolid and others, the European Court of Justice considered whether a five month gap between contracts to manage a music school prevented there being a transfer of an undertaking, and whether dismissals of the outgoing contractor's staff were for an economic, technical or organisational reason entailing changes in the workforce.
The revised National Planning Policy Framework: housing focus
15 Aug 2018
On 24 July 2018, the Government published the long-awaited revised National Planning Policy Framework ('NPPF2'). This article sets out 10 key areas within NPFF2, which we consider will be of interest to our contacts involved in the housing sector.
