Blog Category: Insights
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News & Insights
Brexit and GDPR
The nation may be divided on Brexit but one thing is agreed: it is imperative that business owners arm themselves with as much informatio...
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Working through the menopause
The symptoms of the menopause can by physical (e.g. hot flushes, migraines, skin irritation) but also psychological (e.g. lack of concent...
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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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Parental Alienation and Transfer of Primary Care
Our Family Law department explore parental alienation and the transfer of primary care looking into the guidance issued by The Children a...
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Will Sprinklers Provide Safety?
Our Commercial Property department, looks at the current steps being taken by the Government towards improving building safety following ...
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Preparing your commercial property for a sale
One of the first questions a seller of commercial property often asks, is how long will the sale take to go through? For many reasons, sp...
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Can an employee be dismissed for secretly recording a meeting at work?
It is very easy indeed with the advent of mobiles phones for an employee to secretly record a disciplinary or other internal meeting on t...
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Post Brexit Data Protection: Trick or Treat?
With summer firmly behind us we are fast approaching 31 October, a date which is traditionally known for being the scariest date of the y...
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When it is not good to talk
Cathryn Pernstich, a Senior Associate Solicitor in our Commercial Property Team, looks at rights of ways over adjoining land. A right of ...
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Who repairs what? – repairing liabilities in leases
Our Commercial Property Team, looks at repairing liabilities in leases. Most modern day leases will usually require a tenant to keep the ...
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Beyond the Call of Duty: Director and Shareholder Conflicts
Directors’ duties developed in the courts over hundreds of years and were codified in the Companies Act 2006. These duties include...
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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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Gift or Loan?
Parents are increasingly lending or gifting their children money, especially with this generation finding it difficult to get on the prop...
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The truth about ‘Non-Disclosure Agreements’ and ‘Confidentiality Cl...
‘Non-Disclosure Agreements’ (NDA’s) and Confidentiality Agreements have been mentioned in the news a lot recently particularly in connect...
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A Case of Simultaneous Deaths: Who Died First?
Kellie Williams-Jauvel, Partner in our Dispute Resolution team who specialises in contested wills, trusts and probate looks into a case o...
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Round-up of family friendly rights August 2019
Elizabeth Maxwell, Solicitor in our Employment team has reviewed some of the headline hitting developments in family friendly rights over...