Blog Category: Insights
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News & Insights
The implications of coronavirus for your staff
The spread of coronavirus means that businesses are having to deal with unique work situations and put in place business continuity plans...
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Covid-19: Legal implications for business
On 12 March 2020 the Government announced that the UK is moving to the “delay” phase of managing the coronavirus outbreak. A...
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Family Care Payments & Gratuitous Allowance
Family Care Payments (Gratuitous Allowance) If you are a lay deputy who has been appointed by the Court of Protection to manage the fina...
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What a relief! Don’t speak too soon…
What is it? As a brief reminder from last month’s article, Entrepreneurs Relief (ER) can reduce the rate of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) paya...
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Full Repairing And Insuring Leases – Why Tenants Should Be Wary
A landlord will often insist that a tenant takes a full repairing and insuring lease (FRI lease). This means that a tenant will be respon...
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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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Let’s talk about Death…
Death is something that most people do not want to talk about, but it is something that will eventually happen to everyone. In our line o...
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New right to parental bereavement leave
New right to parental bereavement leave From 6 April 2020, employees will be entitled to take parental bereavement leave (PBL) following ...
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Divorce: it’s not over until it’s ordered
In England and Wales, a marriage is only legally dissolved by a Decree Absolute being obtained. This is a document produced by the court ...
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Will March bring relief for entrepreneurs?
The dust may have settled on the general election but an election pledge for the review of entrepreneurs’ relief (ER), in its current fo...
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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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Someone Call Security
Our Commercial Property department, discusses the important decision of TFS Stores Limited v BMG (Ashford) Limited and others (2019) conc...
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Is your business ready for a change?
This is an issue of relevance to our corporate clients wanting to ensure their businesses are sufficiently agile to adapt to market chang...
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Holiday pay for term time only workers should not be pro-rated to f...
Holiday entitlement is a sensitive issue for workers and those employed part time often feel they are losing out. The recent Court of Ap...
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Warning to employers of the risks of stereotypical assumptions
Tribunal cases where claims of unlawful discrimination have succeeded because of stereotypical assumptions by the decision-maker, rather ...
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Speaking confidentially….
Having effective post termination obligations protecting your business to include your customer connections, skilled employees and confid...