Whistleblowing is a hot topic these days and there have been a number of cases reaching the courts recently all around the world.

Looking for a new place to set up an office? International law firms are moving into Africa, we gather, in response to rising Chinese investment in the continent.

Everyone knows that Freemasons give each other a special handshake but what does your handshake say about you? Are you the type who gives a bone crushing handshake leaving the recipient wincing? Do you have to wipe your hand on your sleeve so you don't present a clammy palm?

LinkedIn have very quietly introduced some new settings that potentially seriously affect your privacy. These new settings are defaulted ON and include allowing LinkedIn to use profile information, name and photos in third party advertising. Please see the links below for opting out.

It seems that employment law is one area in which courts will not rely upon the written contract to find the intentions of the parties involved.

Compulsory retirements of employees at the default retirement age is no longer be possible in the UK as of October 1st.

Only six months since the launch of the Oscar campaign we are delighted to say that we – that's WE in shipping by the way – have raised nearly 270,000 pounds as companies from all over the shipping world have contributed to raising half a million pounds for Great Ormond Street Children's hospital.

Plenty of good speeches and words of wisdom at the ICS/ISF conference in London in September, one of which our chairman was able to make shameless use of as he went off to a meeting immediately after.

IN last month's edition we announced the arrival of five new members of staff here at Spinnaker. As it was August and you were probably on holiday, we thought we´d do it again, just in case…