Blog Category: Insights
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News & Insights
Lending Family a Helping Hand
In the current economic climate, family members are becoming more and more likely to loan money to each other. Commonly these loans will ...
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Does a Landlords’ No Always Mean No?
Our Commercial Property department look at leases which require landlord’s consent and their implications. Most leases restrict tenants f...
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Don’t leave it to the judges to protect your business!
The Supreme Court has recently heard its first employment case on restrictive covenants for a hundred years. The landmark 2019 case of Ti...
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Advance Decision or Health and Welfare LPA?
Olivia Storey, Solicitor in our Wills, Trusts and Estate Administration department explores the options available when planning for your ...
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Brexit – commercial challenges and opportunities
While most of the UK has tired of Brexit negotiations and discussions, other nations are gearing up for the possibilities that Brexit mig...
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Break Clauses – Are they the escape route they seem?
Commercial leases often contain provisions, commonly referred to as “break clauses”, allowing one (or either) party to terminate the leas...
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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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Last chance saloon: employers can be liable even if only aware of a...
Employers sometimes only discover that an employee has a disability at a disciplinary or even appeal hearing. This is most common with m...
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There’s a new class in town
Our Commercial Property department looks at one of the new changes made to permitted development rights which came into force on 25th May...
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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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When does ‘playing hard ball’ become economic duress?
Many of us have found ourselves in the position where we feel the other side are not quite playing fair when it comes to negotiating a co...
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Overage Provisions – Something to get your claws into?
Cathryn Pernstich, a Senior Associate in our Commercial Property Team, looks at points to consider when putting overage into place. Overa...
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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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Effects on assigning a lease for a business
The majority of landlords grant leases for one main reason – to obtain a steady income stream in the way of rent. A good tenant wil...
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Brexit – Commercial Contracts
As Brexit fatigue sets in across the nation, one of the many issues to be considered is how the final outcome, whatever it is, will impac...
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Increase to Additional Inheritance Tax Relief
April 2017 saw some good news for those who own substantial assets, as the government introduced an additional inheritance tax relief, kn...