Key legal question
Whether the claimant was entitled to unemployment benefits from 10 October to 31 December 2008 despite running a self-employed business and focusing on reopening it.
Extracted holding
No; the claimant lacked subjective employability because his conduct showed no serious interest in taking up unsalaried work.
Extracted reasoning
His search efforts were directed mainly toward new self-employment or leasing premises, and his applications for employed work were not considered genuine enough to show real availability for salaried employment.