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PSD2 – Are you Ready?
01 December 2017
With the clock ticking, and just over a month until the changes to the regulation of payment services and e-money come into force, the revised regime will see a significant...
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What 2017’s Autumn Budget Does and Doesn’t Do for Charities
24 November 2017
This week's budget made few mentions of the voluntary sector, and you might be forgiven for thinking the Chancellor had forgotten all about it. Scratch beneath the surface, however, and...
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Shaw Healthcare targets long-term growth with £10m investment
17 November 2017
Shaw healthcare, one of the UK’s leading providers of residential and nursing care for the elderly, has agreed to sell a minority stake to Bridges Evergreen Holdings (“Evergreen”) for £10m...
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Permitted development rights for light industrial buildings now in force
14 November 2017
The new permitted development rights allowing change of use from a light industrial building to a dwelling house came into force this October within Class (PD) of Part 3 of...
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Self-employed “worker” entitled to 13 years’ backdated holiday pay for untaken leave
05 November 2017
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled in the case of King v Sash Windows & another that a "self-employed" salesman who established worker status is able to claim...
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Should social housing be a “permitted disposal” on which no overage is payable?
01 November 2017
The case of Burrows Investments Ltd (Burrows) and Ward Homes Ltd (Ward) (2017) is another case highlighting the importance of careful drafting and negotiation of overage provision but this case...
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Vista Retail Support secures a £14m investment from LDC
27 October 2017
Advised by Blake Morgan, mid-market private equity firm LDC has secured a £14m investment in Vista Retail Support (Vista), a leading independent IT services company.
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Blockchain in real estate – what does the future hold?
20 October 2017
The media has been buzzing about the recent listing of a property in Notting Hill for circa £17 million where the reports state that the seller is only willing to...
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Employment Newsletter – Autumn 2017
19 October 2017
A warm welcome to Blake Morgan's Autumn newsletter, keeping you informed of the latest developments in Employment Law. This year, October brought almost no legislative changes to Employment law, because...
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Update on GDPR: the Data Protection Bill
19 October 2017
On 13 September the Government published the Data Protection Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech earlier this year, which will repeal the existing Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). The Bill...
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Criminal Finances Act 2017 – implications for employers
19 October 2017
On 30 September 2017, two criminal offences under the Criminal Finances Act 2017 came into force (see our previous article with some further details) which all organisations (corporate bodies –including charities...
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Monitoring private messages
19 October 2017
In 2016 the case of Bărbulescu v Romania was dubbed a "snooper's charter". The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the dismissal of an employee for using electronic...
