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Employment | 21st August 2018

Tips for starting a new business

Starting a small business can be an overwhelming process and there are many challenging areas. Here are some of the areas to keep in mind:...

Jane Crosby

Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution & Accredited Mediator
Commercial & Corporate | 15th August 2018

Company Voluntary Agreements – how businesses are using them to...

In recent months, there has been a growing interest in the way businesses are using a particular type of insolvency prevention procedure – known as...

Sheralle Fisher

Solicitor, Commercial & Corporate
Employment | 7th August 2018

GDPR – How are businesses coping?

Now that GDPR has been in force for a number of months, we thought it was time to take a look at how it’s affecting...

Jane Crosby

Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution & Accredited Mediator

Challenging times: what happens when a family member is cut...

High profile inheritance disputes follow celebrities and the super-rich as surely as night follows day, but such challenges are becoming increasingly common, whatever the values...

Paul Grimwood

Partner & Accredited Mediator
Residential Property | 27th July 2018

A reflection on the UK Residential property market

For some months, the residential property market has been sluggish at best. Very little property is coming onto the market, online agencies are beginning to...

David Knapp

Partner, Residential Property
Employment | 23rd July 2018

Working temperatures – when is it too hot to work?

The heatwave of summer 2018 is already being compared with the long, hot scorcher of 1976. Records have been broken across the UK, the words...

Jane Crosby

Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution & Accredited Mediator
Dispute Resolution | 9th July 2018

Inheritance Act Claims – an application delayed is often an...

Following a death, it is possible for a claim to be made against the deceased’s estate on the basis that the distribution of their estate...

Paul Grimwood

Partner & Accredited Mediator
Family | 6th July 2018

Cohabitation, civil partnerships and marriage – the choice is yours?

Last week, five judges of the Supreme Court decided unanimously that the current law regarding civil partnerships is not in line with the European Convention...

Julian Waldon

Associate, Family
Commercial Property | 27th June 2018

Easements and rights of way – Get off my land!...

If you’ve discovered an easement running through your property, you may be wondering who has access and who can pass over your land. There are...

Roderick Campbell

Partner, Head of Commercial Property
Commercial Property | 22nd June 2018

New Lease Code

We await the conclusions of the consultation process launched by The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) on replacing the current Code for Leasing Business...

Anne Bridger

Senior Solicitor, Commercial Property