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Transgender Awareness Week – Transgender and your Will
"My son has become my daughter – do I need to update my Will?" This is just one of the questions we are beginning to be asked more regularly by...
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Private Client Issues – November 2019
Welcome to this month's edition of Private Client Issues, Blake Morgan's monthly round-up of the topics you may find of interest. Insight and advice on developments affecting private individuals. New...
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ACM – the Pressure to replace
Building Owners should be aware that Government in the form of the MHCLG (Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government) is now applying considerable pressure to see ACM cladding panels...
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Blake Morgan advises on sale of Virtual Clarity to DXC Technology Co
Leading law firm Blake Morgan has advised IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) transformation consultancy, Virtual Clarity, on their sale to DXC Technology Co (NYSE: DXC).
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Planning permission: Can a s.73 permission amend the description of development?
If a developer has been granted planning permission subject to conditions, it can make an application under Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 in order to...
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New Year’s Eve 2019…Opposite Sex Civil Partnership
From 2 December 2019 opposite sex couples shall be able to give notice of civil partnership, to be registered from New Year's Eve onwards. Our blog post of 12 July...
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Women in Law – Female Partners
Senior solicitor Kerry Blomerus features in an article first published in DAS Law on 4 November featuring women in law. This year marks the centenary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal)...
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The Future of Costs and Case Management?
Our Commercial Litigation experts provide a summary of the key points of the capped costs pilot scheme and whether it will work for you. The capped costs pilot scheme was...
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Charity Commission widens its own definition of whistleblowers to include volunteers
The Charity Commission recently published its annual report into the whistleblowing disclosures it received between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2019 and included a significant change to its whistleblowing...
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Competition Appeal Tribunal ruling is great news for litigation funders
Simon Hough and Rebecca Wyke discover good news for litigation funders as they examine a recent Competition Appeal Tribunal ruling in relation to the funding of collective claims. The case...
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Ground rents – When is a long lease not actually a long lease?
When it is an Assured Tenancy - It sounds like the punchline to a bad joke at a dinner party full of property lawyers, but sadly this is the sad...
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SDLT tax receipts
John Shallcross takes a look at the latest statistics on tax receipts from stamp duty land tax and considers what they tell us about first time buyers' relief and of...
