Motor Trade Legal News

With most of the allegations of mis-selling of commission on the sale of finance agreements dismissed by the Supreme Court in 2025, the only issue that remains relates to the FCA’s Redress Scheme and high commission arrangements where the commission paid was sufficient to create an unfair relationship in breach of s140A of the Consumer […]

The motor industry is a dynamic business environment. This can result in a need to make changes to the workforce, either by redistributing them across other roles or ultimately reducing them. It is therefore likely that members will have been involved in a redundancy exercise at some point. All redundancies require an employer to consult […]

Whilst some of you might have missed it, the government passed their flagship Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) gained royal assent on 18 December 2025. Whilst this is set to include a number of significant changes, it should be noted that currently the scheduled timeline for implementation of these changes has pushed back some […]

An Employment Tribunal in Dundee has ruled in the claim of Ms Sandy Peggie v Fife Health Board (1) Dr B Upton (2) [Case no. 4104864/2024] that Ms Peggie was harassed by NHS Fife after she was suspended after complaining about having to share a changing room with a transgender doctor (Dr Beth Upton who […]

We want to use this week’s article to warn members of a potential scam. Akmol Legal Services We have recently been contacted by a number of motor dealers who have received an email from a company named Akmol Legal Services regarding a potential trademark dispute. In the correspondence, Akmol Ali states that they are ‘reaching […]

The Employment Appeal Tribunal issued a judgment recently in the case of Mr J Alom v The Financial Conduct Authority in relation to an unfair dismissal claim. The EAT judgment touches on two issues that we see come up a lot during the disciplinary process: investigation/ disciplinary hearing transcripts and meeting ‘scripts’ drafted by HR […]

ACAS Early Conciliation is a free, confidential service that attempts to resolve workplace disputes between an employee and employer before a formal employment tribunal claim is made. The way ACAS EC is intended to work is that the employee/ ex-employee contacts ACAS notifying them of their intention to make a claim (mandatory), at which point […]

High Court of Justice, Commercial Court King’s Bench Division CL-2025-000505 In our last edition of MILS Matters (31/10) we reported on the case of our clients Mackie Motors (Brechin) Ltd. (MMBL) and Mr Kevin Mackie (principal Director of Mackie Motors) who have issued proceedings in the High Court against Renault UK, Nissan Motor (GB) and […]

FTPF A new corporate offence of Failure to Prevent Fraud (FTPF) came into force on 1 September.  This is under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.  It says that an organisation will be guilty of an offence if an associated person (and this would include employees, agents etc, hence the relevance to Employment […]

Many Members will be aware by now that MILS is representing Mackie Motors (Brechin) Ltd. (MMBL) in the High Court against Renault UK, Nissan Motor (GB) and RCI Financial Services over its termination in 2021, and consequential lost profits, business value and unreimbursed investment in seized vehicle stock. At the time of its termination MMBL […]