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Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill supports covid hit businesses
Last week the UK government published the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill (CI&GB). These changes are aimed at helping busine...
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Legal privilege – can I tell the post room staff?
One of the subjects we always discuss with clients at our first meeting with them is how to make sure that the advice we give them stays ...
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Directors’ Duties After The Sequana Case
A recent case has confirmed that rules providing liquidators with a mechanism to reverse certain transactions made during the period of a...
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Private use of the Company Car, a bridge too far?
The recovery of VAT on cars remains a contentious area for UK businesses. HMRC usually take a robust approach and denies such claims. Th...
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Common Mistake: Take Two! What happens when the contractual documen...
The Court of Appeal in the case of FSHC Group Holdings Ltd v GLAS Trust Corporation Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 1361 takes a fresh look at the te...
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Misfeasance: a catch-all claim against directors
What exactly is a misfeasance claim? Directors owe certain fiduciary and other duties to their companies in their capacity as an officer....
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Take your eye off the detail and you may find yourself held to ransom
Persimmon Homes Ltd v Hillier [2019] EWCA Civ 800 (09 May 2019) Very often, litigators have to consider whether or not the court would be...
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Estate Agents’ Commission: Supreme Court considers Courts’ discreti...
In February 2019 the Supreme Court held that a verbal agreement reached between an estate agent and a property developer, which provided ...
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Fixed recoverable costs – here we go….
Yesterday, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed that it intends to implement Sir Rupert Jackson’s Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) in...
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Directors’ dividends can be unlawful – Global Corporate Ltd v...
Brexit uncertainty is causing increasing difficulty for SMEs and OMBs who are facing uncertain trading conditions. It is worth rememberi...
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Consent for alterations: block management landlords beware
Following a recent decision in the Court of Appeal, landlords of blocks of flats should take extra care when considering an application f...
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Dine but don’t Wine about the VAT Bill
Many of us may have indulged in the M&S “Dine in for £10 with Free Wine” deal which comprised of a starter, a main and a desert for £...
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But I might have acted differently: Revisiting the “but for” test i...
Kellie Williams-Jauvel, Partner in our Dispute Resolution team at our Wimbledon office revisits the discussions around the “but for...
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Transactions at an Undervalue (TUV) in corporate insolvency
Our Dispute Resolution team look into transactions at an under value (TUV) and explains why it is important that you are aware of their s...
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No Oral Modification Clauses are Rock Solid
Sally Hutchings, a Tax Litigation specialist in our Dispute Resolution department discusses a clause that The Supreme Court has upheld wh...
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Court Modernisation: online court made public
Kellie Williams-Jauvel a Partner in our Dispute Resolution team discusses the modernisation of the court that was made earlier this month...